I'm also seeing the 12-month code for $60 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/X16-03798/dp...1596655952&sprefix=xbox+live+,aps,280&sr=8-15As posted above, just got an email saying my one year sub is auto renewing on August 13th for $59.99 sooooooo...where's the increase?
I think a few people need to research 'Occams Razor'.
I came into this thread expecting a wishy-washy half assed statement that would give MS some room to manoeuvre for any sort of change in the near future.
That's not what we got. That statement is about as definitive as it gets.
It was never really a rumour grounded in reality anyway, and as far a I can see, Microsoft agrees.
Didn't they try to charge for it and it just didn't work because PC gamers were used to not paying for online?
.I think you have to be seriously delusional to think a service-focus business is going to piss away literal billions in service revenue for no material gain.
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.
True .X360 started it and was on top while doing it when ps3 was free and behind x360.As expected. They are not going to get rid of the Xbox Live subscription. If it was that much of a negative thing for customers then Sony would have had a massive backlash this generation for it.
If anything, MS may have just gotten rid of the yearly gold sub because then it forces people to pay for the more expensive 3 month sub x4 in a year.
Yup, I knew this was never gonna happen.I think you have to be seriously delusional to think a service-focus business is going to piss away literal billions in service revenue for no material gain.
it is available still if your account is set for auto renew for the year.So they'll make available again the 12 months Gold subscription, right ?
What games do you want friend.Hey MS, get rid of Gold and then you can stop embarrassing yourself with those GWG 'efforts'.
True .X360 started it and was on top while doing it when ps3 was free and behind x360.
Does anyone else feel the reason they're able to say this is because they're gonna just have Xbox Live Gold, GamePass, and Xcloud all under one new banner going forward? Like, they already offer that under GamePass Ultimate but I wonder if it'll have a new name? Or maybe that's what the recent rebranding is doing?
I never said Xbox Live Gold was going to be free.MS Insiders like Tom Warren and Jez Corden are basically unofficial MS PR. They don't know anything MS doesn't want them to know but occasionally they overstep and make a bad prediction. In this case, they were totally wrong about online being free and should just take the L.
Which is exactly what they would say if they were changing it soon.
The least I expect is f2p games to not require paywall, that's embarrassing at this point. The other positive outcome for me would be adding gold to Gamepass at no automakers cost (getting rid of GWG if necessary)
If this ends up not happening, then how are they going to keep tiptoeing around Xbox console owners being the only ones that are required to pay for online gaming? It's a policy that is going to stick out like a sore thumb now that they're pushing for platform agnosticism.
Tom do you have any idea what might be going on? The only thing I can think is that people heard it was changing and just jumped to it being phased out entirely.
I think you bingo'd it on the first try here.Tom do you have any idea what might be going on? The only thing I can think is that people heard it was changing and just jumped to it being phased out entirely.
Has the 12 month option been removed to prevent people piling on the years for the cheap £1 Ultimate upgrades that many people took advantage of perhaps?
You've heavily implied it for weeks. Even in the article you published earlier today you're still saying it might happen.
You've heavily implied that for weeks. Even in the article you published earlier today you're still saying it might happen.
Maybe they saw that poll on Resetera where 90% of people said it wouldnt make a difference whatsoever in terms of even getting people to consider switching from Sony to Microsoft and they thought "Ah, fuck it then, might as well keep making money". And honestly why would they change it? Console gamers have shown they're willing to pay money to play online, they're conditioned to it in a way that PC gamers absolutely are not. It's not like dropping Gold is gonna make the Sony die-hards suddenly abandon their platform of choice, the Series X could give sensual blowjobs and vomit bank notes out of the disc drive every weekend and they still wouldn't buy it.
Mind you, they'll almost certainly drop the Gold requirement for FTP games to bring it inline with Sony, it's such an easy PR move that would probably barely put a dent in their Gold subscription income. I'm kind of shocked they haven't already, it's really misguided of them.
Okay, with GamePass + XBLG, Microsoft Game Studios are going to be well funded for years to come. It's very bizarre where actual game *sales* are basically bonus.
The thing about the one year is truly bizarre. As noted, the 1Y plans are still widely available from partner retailers and etailers. They could be cancelled by the issuer on demand at any time, because they are not distributed on a prepaid basis, but are just codes with zero value until sale and activation.
But they haven't, as of yet, been pulled even from the largest sites and retailers around, which just leaves us with a truly mysterious, inconsistent situation.