Xbox Game Pass Needs A Reset

Uncover the reasons why hitting reset on Xbox Game Pass is necessary. Learn about the potential consequences if changes aren't made.

[Kaii]

Game pass hasn't even hit the enshittification stage.
Xbox has proven they have no direction, they aren't looking after the developers they've acquired.

Competition is good & very much needed but Xbox has been a joke since Don Mattrick left, the only thing I've heard from Xbox since 2014 is words, empty words.

[DaleCooper]

You hit the nail on the head when saying "no direction". It really does feel like this with Xbox lately.

[purple101]

I can tell you now, there will be A SEPARATE cod tier of gamepass

they will separate the two tiers, added onto of their existing 3 tiers, so now more tiers.... so Gamepass:ultamite:cod

EITHER THS:

or they keep same price, get everyone playing cod, then raise price 2-3 months after, sneaky little ****'s

[Xeofate]

Stopped reading after this.
"Xbox says Game Pass is profitable and I’m sure it probably is."

Just pure delusion.

You live in an alternate fanboy reality if you think game pass is profitable while in reality Microsoft is firing people, closing down studios, raising prices and making their games third party.

Some people just want to be lied too I guess...

[danno_omen]

They have investors and a board they are required to report to. They can lie about a lot of things and do, but profits ain’t one of them, especially in court lol

[Xeofate]

You don't understand, when we see the investor reports on this site they are reporting revenue not profit.

Microsoft has lost multiple legal cases for misleading investors.

It's well know that they manipulate and hide costs and losses in other reports in order to be able to present positive reports to their investors and the public on products they are trying to drive..

Why do you think they are closing down studios making major cuts to staff increasing prices and lowers rewards? It might actually be worse if game pass was profitable and they were doing this.

[MrDead]

No Xbox needs to be sold to a company that wants to grow gaming instead of what we have, a company that wants to own gaming... and get you to rent games.

All these articles speculating and guessing when what you need to do is look at MS and how they conduct business, they buyup, take the IP's, tech, etc they want, consolidate then shut down.

Smaller studios are chaff to MS, they have control of some of gaming's biggest IP's to use as leverage and are moving on.

[franwex]

I think that may be a good solution. Simply spinning off Xbox into its own company as right now it’s simply “Microsoft Games.”

They obviously will still have a good relationship with Microsoft as they can provide the OS and network infrastructure for Xbox. But would manage their studios better.

[Hofstaderman]

How does a non-profitable, self-cannabilizing and non-growing sub service need a reset? It needs a bullet to the head.

[Gaming4Life1981]

I think gamepass is great and well worth my money but I just play games, I don't get caught up in corporate nonsense. People on this site love to think they are experts on business and what companies should be doing but clearly don't know what your talking about.

[ApocalypseShadow]

I just play games....

Did you play Tango games? Because you won't anymore with your head in the sand. Sounds like you wouldn't have cared if Microsoft had successfully implemented DRM in 2013 and took away game ownership. Because you know, you just play games....

[DaleCooper]

I was a big proponent of Game Pass at first, but I've since realized that I rarely play games that are added to Game Pass. After doing the math, I found it's just cheaper for me to wait for sales and outright purchase the games I want. Not sure if there is anything that could "fix" Game Pass at this point.

[ThinkThink]

Sounds like the gamepass option isn't for you. But luckily, it's just that, an option. I use gamepass for discovery mostly. I've followed that up with purchases for the games that I really enjoy. Gamepass has basically replaced my gamefly subscription. Have no plans to unsubscribe unless it starts to hit the $30 dollar/month

[Knightofelemia]

I use to use Gamepass when Microsoft would do the stupid insane one month for $1. And even when I did that I barely used it. I think in the long run Gamepass actually costs Microsoft more money. The games on Gamepass I all ready played them, all ready owned them, or I was bored of them. I can understand releasing one of their in house games to Gamepass day one. But if they want to bring say RE8 or even FF16 to Gamepass day one Microsoft has to pay a shitload of cash to bring that game day one to Gamepass. I can see why Microsoft is running around trying to figure out wtf they are doing.

[Miacosa]

People are not going to like it but maybe sell the games first at normal price and then after a point make it available on Games Pass after a price adjustment to off-set the new acquisitions costs they face. Maybe a new tier of Games Pass called Games Pass Day One at $24.99 and $34.99 including PC. And keep the current service at the same price but have the new bigger profile games that can be "sold" come 6 months to a year later.

It might be too late to back track now however in anyway so other then increasing price they need to go everywhere.

[jznrpg]

Nothing will fix gamepass. It’s a horrible business model