As Dunkey once said, Microsoft is run by Ants.
If they lost less than a third of the total, they’re making a lot of money for the short term.
In the long term, they’re fucking themselves into obscurity.
We can hope but VMware showed that extreme price hikes work. I thought VMware would collapse but they’re more profitable than ever.
Whales, man.
There’s a big difference between what a corporation will pay for and cost absorb and some individual paying for an entertainment service is. A shrinking user base that largely relies on “my friends use it, so I have it too” can swing a big pendulum.
So I ditched it because I didn’t want to pay for it. Then I find out you have to have it to play any games online. “But it supports the servers!”.
Then please explain to me, why can I use the same copy of FH6 on either my PC or Xbox, but yet when I play it on tje PC, I have full access to online play? No additional charge or GamePass required.
It’s been this way since the original Xbox, idk why you’d buy into their shitty ecosystem when they’ve been forcing people to pay a second internet bill to play online content for decades at this point.
I dropped out based on the price hike. We just weren’t getting the value. I bought a couple full evergreen games that I get back to often and then just lived without the rest. Also cancelled Netflix and a couple of other subscriptions. Just too much money to spend and enough time.
Now Microsoft…what did we learn today?
Nothing…
We’ve gotta increase the price again to make up for those customers
Except they decreased it recently.
Lobby the gov insisting all citizens must sign up and have a mandated subscription…before further 50% updates.
Ah the the insurance model
It’s okay for them as ong as the userbase loss is less than that 50%.
Less than 33%, you’d need a 100% price increase to make up for losing half
All they need to do is get one Elon to sign up to their $5 billion SuperAlpha WinnersOnlyPlusPassPlan and they’re golden.
I bet he would love a feature where copilot plays the games for him while he streams
Not surprising given they‘ve lowered the price again shortly after.
Duh?
You nerds were so preoccupied with screeching at Microsoft you all mostly missed 2-3 years worth of games for pennies on the dollar.
For years you could buy up to 3 years of game pass ultimate for about $2 a month and I got literally over 3k worth of games at launch for basically free/pennies. You’d have to be a moron to not jump on it.
Of course the count was going to go down. That was the strategy. It was never sustainable.
I don’t know why you’re downvoted, Netflix showed that this subscription model was going to be the best deal in gaming for a good while, before the company started wanting to get their money back. As a very poor person, I got to try and play at least a hundred games since I picked up a series X late 2020.
