Kind of a weird backpedal when journos were all seemingly teasing hard about some change we were all going to be happy about. Now people are gonna be disappointed with anything other than the online fee disappearing.
I say Ms drops xblg to $5 a month and possibly ends games with gold. Technically that's still cheaper for people who don't need online play every month and still matches the old yearly msrp. At least has the illusion of not being a price hike.
Kind of pushes everyone to gamepass if you want the best value.
But it was / is already $5 a month if you buy the yearly option, which was the one option they removed at least for now from their store.