On principle, if this is real I'll go back to my Steam/GOG PC as my primary, PS5/Switch for exclusives. That's basically where I was for 2014-16. I'd of course periodically use one of my stockpiled Gold subs to keep my Xboxes in the family rotation...but I wouldn't be jumping back into Gamepass or Gold in perpetuity or be spending any new money on subs.
This type of price hike would absolutely be anti - consumer, and could make the backlash they received for the Xbone reveal seem tame.
I just can't imagine this is true...it feels too stupid for words...we shall see.
Yeah I can also only see this as some good photoshopping.
If not, then team Green doesn't have long again. What's the point of saying "Sony increase prices to 89 euro while we maintain 60 euro", only to double the price for gold, which is needed because of the multiplayer pay wall. Its insane.
I'm glad I jumped back into pc gaming two years ago. I became a console gamer early prev gen, left and became pc only gamer when the same gen was about to be done.
And neither next gen console seems interesting to me anyway so I'm free from hideous subs besides mmos if I want to play these. But they don't disable your online capabilities if you don't pay.
I'm just saying that even if this turned out to be true at least something positive happened for Xbox. We are after all talking about the console since Xbox on PC doesn't have paid online to my knowledge.
That's correct. You can actually play Microsofts games online on pc without having to pay.