The family plan changes come after Game Pass price hikes.
This is obviously just a money grab at this point, isn’t it?
News of the family plan ending in August comes just days after Microsoft bumped its overall Xbox Game Pass monthly prices. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has move from $14.99 per month to $16.99 (€14.99 / £12.99).
Definitely a grumpy old man but that doesn’t mean you aren’t right.
Try telling people the same thing about how corporate consolidation is bad and is going to lead to long-term anti-consumer damage and they respond the same way largely.
The good news is the Lemmy community seems, as a whole, to have its head on its shoulders better about things like this.
I assume it’s some combination of an older userbase, more tech literate, and people directly experiencing enshitification as the fundamental reason a large segment of the community migrated here.
I’ve seen about half and half. Half are praising Microsoft for monopolizing it and the other are against. Which yeah, so soon after reddit you’d think they’d be against complete control of a company. They all burn you eventually
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Definitely a grumpy old man but that doesn’t mean you aren’t right.
Try telling people the same thing about how corporate consolidation is bad and is going to lead to long-term anti-consumer damage and they respond the same way largely.
The good news is the Lemmy community seems, as a whole, to have its head on its shoulders better about things like this.
I assume it’s some combination of an older userbase, more tech literate, and people directly experiencing enshitification as the fundamental reason a large segment of the community migrated here.
I’ve seen about half and half. Half are praising Microsoft for monopolizing it and the other are against. Which yeah, so soon after reddit you’d think they’d be against complete control of a company. They all burn you eventually