Microsoft backtracks Xbox Live Gold price hike, also ends membership requirement for Free-to-Play Games [2021-01-22]

$120 a year for Xbox Live Gold is way too much. Especially considering it’s free for PC gamers. It is just an absolutely terrible decision by MS/Xbox management to raise the price of Gold to subsidize the cost of Game Pass. Sorry but this is inexcusable. MS/XB just need to charge more for Game Pass as that is where the over head is coming from not XBL Gold. Ridiculous. I thought all the terrible decision making was gone with Phil and Nadella at the helm but apparently not…

I apologize about the off topic rant. I still think MS’s best purchase would be Capcom as they make games that are popular in the West as well as Japan.

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