There are rumors of a new Xbox Game Pass tier coming from Microsoft, and this one would offer only first party games.

All hail enshitification!

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    9 hours ago

    I just want Xbox live without having to pay 120 a year. I could care less for any games

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    91·
    17 hours ago

    Oh man I love when companies make stupid tonedeaf decisions like this.

    Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?

    Yeah?

    Well, what if to boost sales numbers we add a tier that ONLY gives you our lame first party games!

    Because they refuse to see games as a creative artform. Or, they think they ate, but then do the worst corpo bs to them. This all reeks of some boardroom joining all their MBAs together to come up with this brilliant shit covered plan.

    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      16 hours ago

      Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?

      I personally don’t think anyone should pay for xbox game pass, but this is a bit of an exaggeration imho. Xbox Game Studios have published some great games in the past decade. Among them, in no particular order:

      • Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition
      • Age of Empires 4
      • Psychonauts 2
      • A couple of Forza games
      • Ori and the Blind Forest
      • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
      • Hellblade 2
      • Grounded
      • As Dusk Falls
      • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Careful, putting out the message that they’re amazing games could lead to the studios getting fired. Like what happened to Hi-Fi Rush.

      • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        And that’s not even close to a full list, either. There’s also Flight Simulator, Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush. Probably others I’m forgetting too.

        There’s plenty to hate on MS for, and I’m not saying they haven’t squandered a lot of the talent they paid for, but to say they’ve released nothing great for over a decade is just ignorant.

      • Kwiila@slrpnk.netEnglish
        12·
        15 hours ago

        I know of Age of Empires; but the others I don’t recognize, thought were Indie 500, or an actual Indie game.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    20 hours ago

    Sounds awful, thanks. I can’t wait to laugh when I see the ridiculous amount they probably want per month.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    20 hours ago

    it would need to be so much cheaper to be worth it. Like current GP ultimate already is a scam and a half unless you were essentially buying a AAA title every 2 months, unless the price of this subscription is at least a quarter the price of ultimate it wouldn’t be worth it imo.