MS: "No plans to change Xbox Live Gold"
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They have been made before. But everything that MS is doing makes this a non issue.
If this is the case that's a pretty big price hike for live. They're gonna lose even more people.
Again, I will be happy to eat crow if they do it, but I just cannot see them removing the paid online. There is no business reason to remove it. They make so much money, I can't see it going away unless they have another method to make money.
Sure, Xcloud/GamePass could take off on non-Xbox consoles but that's a big IF. Game streaming is by no means a guaranteed success in the next 1-3 years, especially with a global economic downturn. So it would be strange to me they'd remove the online fee requirement for non-F2P games with so much uncertainty about Xcloud in the future. If Xcloud is a smash success, has tens of millions of subscribers across a variety of platforms in a few years, sure, they'd have replaced that revenue source. But as is, I want to believe the insiders but IDK.
This is the same company that kept XBL Gold a requirement for F2P games in the 3 years AFTER Fortnite became the biggest gaming phenom since Minecraft/Pokemon, so I will not hold my breath for this type of significant change.
Sure, Xcloud/GamePass could take off on non-Xbox consoles but that's a big IF. Game streaming is by no means a guaranteed success in the next 1-3 years, especially with a global economic downturn. So it would be strange to me they'd remove the online fee requirement for non-F2P games with so much uncertainty about Xcloud in the future. If Xcloud is a smash success, has tens of millions of subscribers across a variety of platforms in a few years, sure, they'd have replaced that revenue source. But as is, I want to believe the insiders but IDK.
This is the same company that kept XBL Gold a requirement for F2P games in the 3 years AFTER Fortnite became the biggest gaming phenom since Minecraft/Pokemon, so I will not hold my breath for this type of significant change.
If Gold stays, there is going to be a backlash.... but it's a backlash about a rumour and generalized belief spun from journalists, bloggers and forums. So .. they'll get roasted for nothing. Basically MS keeps gold, there is backlash. Sony keeps PS+, no backlash. THESE ARE WEIRD TIMES MAN.
I hate it when companies do this and then just announce the exact opposite in short order. Just don't "respond to rumors or speculation."
So dumb.
So dumb.
Where did I say in my post it makes sense to "us"? You're being weirdly aggressive and reading into things which I never wrote.
It makes a lot of business sense to keep that paywall up, it's the biggest source of revenue for both MS/Sony. Expecting one of them to throw it out of some mis-guided sense of charity and morality, now that really doesn't make sense.
So this is just essentially a price hike for XBL Gold then likely in an attempt to get people to just get gamepass instead.
But why would they? Tying it to Gamepass doesn't seem like such a big deal if value is to be noted.
Gamepass seems to defeat the purpose of XBLG
They announced that but people are insistant that it's the whole online paywall going away which never made sense. It's probably going to be combined with gamepass basic.
The article title is bad for sure but they do put the quotation marks in the right place
I still believe is going away at least for F2P games. They would need to be very dumb to release a free Halo MP and lock it behind a paywall on consoles.
Microsoft: We have no plans to change Xbox Live Gold...
Boom! Definitive proof!
A tiny sliver of light shines through, ensuring that this is not definitive proof.
(Yes, I know this was all a HIMYM reference, but I couldn't find the gif.)
Boom! Definitive proof!
*door creaks*
A tiny sliver of light shines through, ensuring that this is not definitive proof.
(Yes, I know this was all a HIMYM reference, but I couldn't find the gif.)
Windows Central editorializing while reporting. They're Mixing their assumptions with their facts right in the title of their article.
Well they aren't going to annoucned anything right now just because of some rumors. The "at this time" basically make this statement meaningless since they can announced the new thing next week and it would still be accurate.
you dont need gold on gamepass
edit: nvm seems like you do on console
Yeah I think there is no way they stop taking money from all the people playing Call of Duty and Fifa and Madden online.
I think they could drop the gold requirement for games on Game Pass.
I think they could drop the gold requirement for f2p games.
I think they could discontinue Games With Gold.
Yep. SOMETHING is changing. Which is only logical. Gold is redundant at this point.
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By removing the 12 month option that cost $60 instead of $120 a month.
It's just going to be moving f2p outside the paywall. I.e. catching up to Sony and Nintendo. The current situation of paywalling f2p games is anti-consumer.
"We have no plans to discontinue Xbox Live Gold at this time. It is an important part of gaming on Xbox today, and will continue to be in the future."
still, Warren seems to think this doesn't mean it will not be free in the future, I'm not sure I get what he means (how would you make XBL and XBLG separate if multiplayer becomes free?)
The yearly sub is gone, and the price is twice as high for monthly subs at 9.99 a month.
60 a year previously, 120 a year now.
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Something is happening IMO — so it's either "free to play games won't require live" or its this.