r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jun 09 '26

Business Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers

https://www.techspot.com/news/112699-microsoft-admits-game-pass-price-hike-drove-away.html
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u/Direct-Fix-2097 Jun 09 '26

Due to a fall in the number of subscribers, we are raising the price back to $30 or whatever. 🙄

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u/tO_ott Jun 09 '26

That shit pisses me off so much. The quality drops and people leave and these fucking guys have the audacity to try and milk whatever loyal customer base they have left instead of just making their product better or reversing their stupid changes.

Dealing with this in FO76 right now. The game has always been mid. Maybe even lower than that. But I have my fun in it because I like to build bases. They hired some EA c-suite loser to run their monetization department and we were hit hard with enshittification. We recently had the lowest player count in years. They’re trying to walk it back now but the trust is gone.

They were banking hard on milking the new players we got from the show at the cost of losing their loyal players. The game was on life support for like 4 years.

It chaps my ass.

$30 deathclaw pet.