Xbox doubles the price of Xbox Live Gold - Never mind just a prank bro lmao

[Dr. Geronimo]

Update on Xbox Live Gold Pricing - Xbox Wire

Since we launched Xbox Live (18 years ago!), we’ve been working to make it the most advanced multiplayer network available, for the greatest community of gamers — and there are a lot of you. Millions of people come together on Xbox to play with friends and discover great games. We invest in our...

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Spoiler: Press release

Since we launched Xbox Live (18 years ago!), we’ve been working to make it the most advanced multiplayer network available, for the greatest community of gamers — and there are a lot of you. Millions of people come together on Xbox to play with friends and discover great games. We invest in our community by strengthening the digital safety of our players, enabling new ways to share, communicate and play with your friends, and delivering industry leading reliability across our network.

Periodically, we assess the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional marketplaces and to continue to invest in the Xbox community; we’ll be making price adjustments for Xbox Live Gold in select markets. In many markets, the price of Xbox Live Gold has not changed for years and in some markets, it hasn’t changed for over 10 years.

So, what does this mean for you?

• If you’re an existing online 12-month or 6-month Xbox Live Gold member, there’s no price change. If you choose to renew your membership, it will renew at your current price.
• The price of a 1-month Gold membership is increasing $1 USD and the price of a 3-month membership is increasing $5 USD or the equivalent amount in your local market.
• If you’d like to upgrade your Gold membership to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate your remaining Gold time will also convert directly to Ultimate (up to 36 months). For example, if you have 11 months of Xbox Live Gold now, and you upgrade to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, those 11 months convert to 11 months of Ultimate at no additional cost.

Members have already been notified in some regions. If you’re in a region where prices are being adjusted, you will receive an email and a message center notification over the next month letting you know what the new pricing is for your membership. Going forward, new pricing will be 1-month for $10.99, 3-months for $29.99, and 6-months for $59.99, or your local market equivalent. You can always visit your account to manage your membership, and prices won’t adjust until at least 45 days after you receive the messages.

Xbox live gold is now $120 a year. Consolefags on bankruptcy watch.

 

[The Last Stand]

I guess they're capitalizing on online gaming being a popular hobby with COVID.

MS wants people to subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate. Why not make Gold CHEAPER to INCREASE the value GPU provides?

I get what they're doing, but this is not the correct way.

 

[Maskull]

I guess they're capitalizing on online gaming being a popular hobby with COVID.

MS wants people to subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate. Why not make Gold CHEAPER to INCREASE the value GPU provides?

I get what they're doing, but this is not the correct way.

At the new price they're asking they should do away with the tiers and make available all their Game Pass services.

 

[The Last Stand]

At the new price they're asking they should do away with the tiers and make available all their Game Pass services.

I know the PC crowd is rejoicing that they don't have to pay for online unlike consoles.

 

[Finder of Games]

You have always been able to convert your Xbox Live Gold membership to Games Pass Ultimate, that's the primary reason in the price bump, as it saved significant amounts of money (Around $400 USD) if you bought up to the maximum allowed storage of Gold, 3 years, then converted for $1. So if you were a frugal shopper and waited for deals on XBL gold cards, around $48 per year, you could get three of them for $144 , then convert to have a full 3 years of Games Pass Ultimate for that+$1 , versus the $540 it would cost at it's regular $15/mo

This is still shit though.

 

[The Last Stand]

MS has been pro-consumer lately. This will hurt that image short term.

 

[X Pac Heat]

not only did retards pay 500 dollars for a resolution bump, they now have to pay double to practically use the damn thing.

at this point isn't it a better deal just to do the bundle from xbox.com that has the console and everything included?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

im refuse to pay for online play on console. the only time i caved was during crash team racing but stooped as soon as the last patch drop.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

MS has been pro-consumer lately. This will hurt that image short term.

Not really. Console gaming is where paying to play online is the norm. PS+ becoming required to play online for most games didn't hurt Sony. That might be due to many early PS4 owners being used to Xbox Live and not PS4's free online.

 

[The Last Stand]

Not really. Console gaming is where paying to play online is the norm. PS+ becoming required to play online for most games didn't hurt Sony. That might be due to many early PS4 owners being used to Xbox Live and not PS4's free online.

Increasing the price would hurt them short term. Eventually, they'll get used to it.

I can understand why PS+ was mandatory for PS4 onward; PS2-3's online infrastructure was shit compared to its competitor. Quality has improved since then.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

That's a lot to pay for the privilage of calling other person a fag over a microphone.

CSGO and Valorant are free, just saying.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I had a hell of a time getting the full gamerscore for Monster Hunter World and Iceborne on Xbox(because there are hardly any people on the xbox version so you have to arrange sessions with a partner), I'm glad I did it before the price increase.

But 120 bucks is way more expensive than Amazon prime even.

Looks like going forward it's just going to be offline games forever on Xbox, and fuck them if they add needless multiplayer online shit to singleplayer games like the Ubisoft LOTR games.

 

[X Pac Heat]

That's a lot to pay for the privilage of calling other person a fag over a microphone.

CSGO and Valorant are free, just saying.

nig where you been? you get a 3000 year ban for shit like that now.

 

[Ruin]

Consolefags on suicide watch. Just build a PC. Consoles are so fucking expensive now a decent gaming PC will pay for itself in two console generations and you can have it for over twice that.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Consolefags on suicide watch. Just build a PC. Consoles are so fucking expensive now a decent gaming PC will pay for itself in two console generations and you can have it for over twice that.

Yeah sure build a PC now if you want to settle for a shitty intel processor.

AMD Ryzen shit is backordered because both the Xbox and Playstation use AMD chips, so we're all in the same fucking boat.

 

[X Pac Heat]

Yeah sure build a PC now if you want to settle for a shitty intel processor.

AMD Ryzen shit is backordered because both the Xbox and Playstation use AMD chips, so we're all in the same fucking boat.

could just...you know...wait.

especially consideirng all this shit is cross gen with just resolution bumps. 4k isn't that fucking important with games unless youre a cinematic sony fag or something

 

[Marissa Moira]

could just...you know...wait.

especially consideirng all this shit is cross gen with just resolution bumps. 4k isn't that fucking important with games unless youre a cinematic sony fag or something

It's not just the 4k bump people want, it's those 60+ frames per second.

 

[XMassAllYearRound]

nig where you been? you get a 3000 year ban for shit like that now.

I've been making endless Valorant and CSGO accounts to call people online fags, obviously.

 

[X Pac Heat]

It's not just the 4k bump people want, it's those 60+ frames per second.

Anyone that wanted 60 fps should have built a computer a decade ago.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Also once Gabe goes, watch Steam start charging for online in order to promote a campaign against hate speech so now they need jannies to make everyone feel no bad angry words. Have everything get rail roaded through twitch and other streaming services to that each require their own paid pass to stream.

Anyone that wanted 60 fps should have built a computer a decade ago.

yeah well someone should have told CD projekt Red that, because you're not getting 60 frames unless you're spending a fortune on your machine like some people did to spite the haters.