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Xbox first party titles expected to hit $80 USD this holiday; Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

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[โ€“] porthos@startrek.website 95 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Game Pass pricing currently unchanged.

That is because the job of Game Pass isn't to make money, it is to funnel customers into subscription services and destroy the idea that people buy games from artists.

Game Pass either succeeds and destroys the gaming industry like spotify did to music or Microsoft will abandon Game Pass.

[โ€“] pulido@lemmings.world 5 points 16 hours ago

It's happening across the board at every industry.

Rather than try to appeal to a larger audience, they've found it's more profitable to take greater advantage of an ever-shrinking pool of saps.

Mark my words, they legitimately don't want the business of people with standards or self-respect. They want to cultivate communities where the only participants are Stockholm Syndrome victims and their abusers.

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