Hahaha, you never cease to amaze with the goalpost shifting.
They are, on console.
Shitty but expected. Value of gamepass is still great for my self.
For others ? Weāll see. COD will have to do alot of heavy lifting now that the hardware is dying a slow death.
I certainly am.
Reading through the changes I think it kinda makes sense. To a degree at least. You are about to drop a COD back catalog but the console tier doesnāt have multiplayer. Now it does but it loses day 1. Not necessarily a fair exchange, but makes a bit of sense.
Now is a great time to stock up if you want to avoid the increase for a few years. Itās nice at least that Microsoft lets you pre purchase months and not just dollar value like some services do.
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This sucks, but itās not surprising. Everyone has a threshold theyāre unwilling to cross and GPU is approaching that for me. Actually, most sub services have already passed it for me, which is a shame.
70%-80% of GP users are using the Ultimate tier, this doesnāt change the fact that itās a āfuck youā to console users with the removal of Day 1 releases to every mode except the 20$ one.
Also, imagine thereās now a 50% increase to every day 1 GP tier, with GP for PC raising to 18$ and GPU (the only available on consoles) raising to 30$, do you think this wouldnāt be another fuck you to consoles since the percentage raised is the same?
Yep, i renewed my GP a few months ago until 2026 so i wonāt be impacted by this for a long time , i guess this wonāt be the last price hike before my subscription ends lol
Youāre grandfathered in on GP for Console if youāre subbed now/before itās shuttered. It canāt be done by new subs but you can keep it if you have it.
Ouch! Iāll keep paying for Ultimate though lol
Hope they bring Activision games soon to counter the bad news
If Iād be paying the whole amount by myself I wouldnāt be too happy now. Fact is that I always split the costs with my sharing buddy, so it really isnāt too bad. As long as that isnāt taken away Iām OK.
Our GPU runs until next year if Iām not mistaken, so we have some time left. Does the merge ātrickā still work?
Plus for branding there wonāt be any point in Gamepass Console when they will no longer be making consoles! Kind of joking but kind of serious, Idk. Gamepass Standard is still a good deal with the now included multiplayer. Iām a GPU sub, and with the new releases, plus COD yearly, Iāll be happily sticking with it.
Also mid September with the changes makes sense for the Activision backcompat releasing on the service.
ultimate is still 35.000 rewards points for 3 months. lets see how this will change.
And 10,500 for Auto Redeem
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=15.00&year1=201906&year2=202405
Iām hoping this increase is meant to last longer than a year, but then again, currency devaluation is always in vogue,
Iām currently stacked through June 2025. Iāll probably pile on a few more three month codes before September.
Yeah Iām out. Same thing I did with Netflix.
At this point I donāt have enough time to churn through games fast enough to make it worth it vs just buying the shit I want especially on sale.
THAT being said. I wonder how long itāll take for āday 1ā releases to hit standard tier. In many ways I could always just standard tier sub if Iām behind churning through my backlog anyways.
Iām sooo fucking over having to sub to a billion things tho. We as a family have been slowly dropping shit over the last year.
I cancelled all the streaming services years ago. Other than Shudder.
I just buy whatever movies I like that are on sale on Apple TV every week (a lot of movies for $4.99 refreshed every week). I can buy around 30 movies a month for what I was paying monthly for streaming.
Iām not near that point with gamepass but itās close. Iāve definitely hit that point with my other subscriptions.
All I got is YouTube Premium at this point.
Had Disney +, Netflix and Spotify at the beginning of the year lol.
The new price of Ultimate is still below my limit thankfully.
Online Tax + First Party day one games (that I want to play). Thatās what Iām paying for, rest is a bonus. As long as itās cheaper to sub to Ultimate than buying those things separately per year, itās ok.
But yes, itās getting closer indeed.