The Xbox Live Gold Price Increase is a Bizarre & Stupid Move

Gamerheadquarters; "As many have seen, the price of Xbox Live Gold is effectively doubling in many regions. This is honestly one of the most stupid moves Xbox has ever made, and I’ll be trying to dive into the various factors behind this strange, bizarre change. "

[masterfox]

Damn MS we know you are greedy as hell but at least you always tried to dissimulate a bit or be more discrete when you are going to blew it hard, this time you went like : To hell with gamers and this pandemic give us more money you pricks!. lol.
and lol this too:

https://twitter.com/The_Cra...

[LOGICWINS]

Great job everyone! Microsoft just caved!

https://news.xbox.com/en-us...

[masterfox]

WOW!, this is hilarious! I mean come on look at this sentence:

"We messed up today and you were right to let us know."

And this is Multibillion dlls company, I mean who da hell is running the company gaming division? I would expect some serious behavior but damn lol, I would expect something like this from a un-experienced small company but this MS we are talking about, great reputation you are leaving behind hehe.

In the end what counts is they change their mind in the last minute, I think in the end maybe they only wanted attention lol.

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

Folded like a 5th grade love letter!

[TheProblem]

Ah Logicwins

You were swearing up and down MS was going to make live gold free for everyone.

Your username doesn’t suit you

[RazzerRedux]

Don Mattrick-ish move

[Chocoburger]

No, its very clearly a Phil Spencer-ish move. He's been sinking the Xbox brand since 2014. Nothing new.

[lukasmain]

It really boggles the mind.

I always hear their fans say things like, "MS don't care about 7.5 Billion. They've got all the money in the world" and things like that. Well... if they're soooo damned rich and don't care about their massive investments into gaming, then why in the hell would they do something so greedy.... so incredibly stupid greedy and basically charge people $120 a year to play a free game like Fortnite? Huh? Ohhhhh but people say about their investments that "MS will just eat the cost" OH REALLY? What horseshit that turned out to be.

Look they need to backtrack this ridiculous move and they need to do it fast.

[lukasmain]

They backtracked. But can't believe they had the balls to make the move in the first place. Sneaky greedy dogs LMAO. This has turned into something quite funny. But yeah, well done to the XBOX fans who spoke up and let their voices be heard.

[iain04]

Unfortunately too many balls and not enough brains. They spend loads of time making the right noises then the brain gets put away and they totally ruin the good work they have done.

[ssmilloy36]

don't forget they bought that 8bit minecraft

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Theyve reversed their decision

[RazzerRedux]

Good! It was a stupid decision. And they finally removed the Gold requirement for F2P games. About time.

[RosweeSon]

Currently, I give it a year. It was a stupid decision and even worse timing who would think it’s a good time to bang all the prices up 1 in a pandemic and 2 when they’ve just launched and brand new gen and surely want people to get their consoles 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷 🏻‍♂️😂 sell a few consoles those prices will go up. Could be wrong but 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 ✌🏻

[DEEHULK88]

They reversed the decision

[marquisray]

You all do know Sony will raise there price next lol

[Nuclearmoon]

Its obvious what they were trying to do, step 1 was to increase the price of gold, step 2 is to add it to game pass for a reduced price. Microsoft will try to add value to gamepass by making it more cost effective for people who have gold (everyone). They are playing the long game and want everyone to migrate over to digital.

[Flawlessmic]

Standard MS they will always look to screw their fanbase and then back track once the heat comes and thank god the heat did come.

But yea MS will screw gamers if given the chance, just need to keep sony and nintendo do well so they keep MS honest.