You're right. People being able to spend less to play more games and the people who make games having better job security and workplace protections are definitely bad. They should have to work twice as hard and we should have to pay twice as much to make sure Call of Duty remains the shining beacon of quality all other video games should strive to reach.
Because 5m-10m out of 25m people are using this trick, which is costing MS a lot of money.
Hey, it's the dumbest take of the day (so far)!
Lol I udnserstand gaming is life, as if it’s a natural resource to you like water…. But to the rest of us it’s just a hobby. An if we’re going by statistics, there’s more people within that 25 mill subs that have gamepass charging there cards an aren’t even aware of it than a bunch of us nerds using $1 tricks that requires like 6 hoops to jump through. That’s an actual verifiable thing, the stuff you claimed is literally tales from your hardcore gaming ass. Most people aren’t going to do this, 100% of the people I know that have gamepass don’t do this, I’m on this website and I don’t even do this because it’s $15 lmao I’m not losing half my check from that. Normal people genuinely do not care about monthly charges as much as you think they do.
That is because I am focusing on my college.
It's also kinda old thinking to assume that anyone these days would be paralyzed without Windows. Companies use Windows client machines to consume services because that's what they have traditionally used. Most company functions have pivoted towards using Linux for server compute or buying their needs as a service. Most of these things just need a browser to be accessible.
Come on, if it was 5-10m people then it would mean that everyone was doing it. There's no way it reaches that many people without everyone knowing.
Not to mention, there will be a trust issues. Because of their tantrums, MS will be viewed as unstable business.
Nobody ever pays 69bn for a successful business then changes it. It's actually far likelier that the leaders of ATVI would change Microsoft's style of managing its studios than the other way around.
Whether that's true or not, how does this change the fact that they are willing sellers though?
Microsoft must have statistics on the usage of all these "tricks". How many use them and how many are eventually converted to full subs etc.
They did try to take measures though? They tried to raise the prices of Xbox Gold to make this trick prohibitive to use. The backlash they got was indicative to me that a surprising amount of Xbox's audience is doing this trick.
Well.. ..anytime the cost of Game Pass is mentioned there are posts discussing how dumb it is to use retail price because of the loopholes. Now, it is different? It's just silly to be upset about the "cost of Game Pass" argument either way since the costs are manipulated for whichever point someone is wanting to make. To be clear, I don't care either way. I will use the loopholes as long as they exist. When those are closed, I will continue to pay a price that I find reasonable.
That is why it's absurd to make those claims.
They raised Xbox live gold to make those users Sub to gamepass.
Where's your source brother?
People in this thread are spending a lot of time trying to decide what is relevant for regulators. Nobody in this thread is one of the regulators.
in their head they are.
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i found out he blocked me.....how?Our boy Senjustu Sage getting quoted in REE. I thought people from REE hate people from gaf?
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It's definitely the end game of all these subscription services. People do love to say that video streaming and gaming subs aren't comparable because you can still buy the games. But that used to be the case with Netflix, too. Back in the day I could buy Daredevil on Bluray. Today, at least as...
Subscribe to a hundred years of gamepass at full price to atone for your sins (don't you dare do that $1 trick. He knows)
maybe Jezz told him
SenjutsuSage
is now at the helm of that thread. Navigating them through the FTC and CMA regulatory framework.
You mean to tell me US employee rights aren’t on their agenda!?
At ERA nobody gives a shit about what is written here. Food for thought.There's been a really strange shift on era. Proving Sony is corrupt via Microsoft's document request, is now the priority. They're so desperate that Gaf's own, assault by endless paragraphs,
This deal needs to reach a conclusion asap for the sanity of a few people. A few more weeks and gaf's MAU is sure to take a hit.
dumb people.
You can. Dont try and activiate that deal though. Buy 3 1 year xbox live gold, and use them on your account. After that, try to use the 1$ coupon.
And I want to see all the shitty deals which MS did during those years. They probably have embarrassing record.
Spent the last days fixing the algo, was getting too much of the redpill and hustle culture crap.
