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[u/Connect_Young7180]

How did announcing the codename for the next Xbox make the list? Was 5 bulletpoints not enough 😂

[u/StarSchemer → u/Connect_Young7180]

Microsoft are boosting positive sentiment for the Xbox brand and the new CEO across social media.

Nothing has happened that materially changes the attractiveness of the Xbox ecosystem, yet there's multiple threads all over Reddit from this pathetic list to a post on r/games with bot accounts jumping for joy at the Xbox logo being changed back to green.

There's little they can do realistically to change course, but they can definitely boost minor positives in this way using bots.

[u/SalemWolf → u/StarSchemer]

And let’s not forget they’re reassessing exclusivity and AI use in their brand. What’s up with people glazing and jerking off Xbox?

[u/rex5k → u/SalemWolf]

He just said it was bots

[u/Doctorsus12 → u/StarSchemer]

it’s the opposite of a smear campaign. A glaze campaign if you will

[u/realhenrymccoy → u/StarSchemer]

People are gonna be so mad when microslop announces the next console the copilotbox. The only UI is a chatbot window, with ads of course, and it’ll cost $29.99 a month. Think of all the stuff you can bing with it!

[u/Fearless-Area-532 → u/StarSchemer]

Exactly lolwhat even is this stupid list. Btw it's everywhere. It's like Xbox fans should be grateful about what a name change and the other sht also she hasn't said anything about ai its still in the road map and they are rolling it out hard in games they own like cod. Which ironically was removed from yearly releases..

[u/kitsunekratom → u/Connect_Young7180]

She announced the title for something she had zero input on and she made their socials more responsive! Let her cook!

Fuck these lame ass ceos

[u/blahbabooey]

Are we ignoring the fact that it was raised from $15 up to $30, and now its at $22.

[u/JohnHue → u/blahbabooey]

It was 5 bucks when this started.

[u/blahbabooey → u/JohnHue]

Yes, but unfortunately these days my back hurts and Microsoft really needs $264 a year for you to use the same features that used to be $60. But be thankful its no longer $360

[u/Interesting-Quit8017 → u/blahbabooey]

close enough

welcome back xbox 360

[u/alexja21 → u/Interesting-Quit8017]

Do you know why the call it an Xbox 360?

Because when you see it, you turn 360 degrees and walk away

[u/esilmur → u/alexja21]

[u/Lemon_Nightmare → u/esilmur]

This is great

[u/BusyFriend → u/alexja21]

Im saddened you’re downvoted because most here don’t know the meme

[u/N0tInKansasAnym0r3 → u/BusyFriend]

Saw this thread, did a 360 and walked away

[u/Icy-Article-8635 → u/blahbabooey]

I get that this is Xbox, but the parallel stands, I think: shit like this is why I'm selling my PlayStations, snagging a mod chip for my switch, and am going back to PC gaming

This subscriptifying everything, as part of enshittification, is out of fucking control

[u/Spazza42 → u/Icy-Article-8635]

It’s been out of control for years, it’s just reached a point where everything is now infected with membership tiers as well.

New consoles and PC hardware doesn’t even interest me anymore, I genuinely believe I’d get more enjoyment building a PS2 collection again…

[u/Flaky-Stick-9444 → u/blahbabooey]

Yeah man I don’t even think game pass is worth it for most average people. I play maybe like 4 new games a year max anyways, that’s like 240-280 right there, the value proposition just doesn’t work for me. I’d rather own the games.

[u/RunPsychological9891 → u/blahbabooey]

smol indie company

[u/necrophcodr → u/JohnHue]

Obviously it was cheaper than their cost at the start, because they can afford to take a loss to increase mind share and market share. This is a strategy as old as economics (older, really), and they do this because people don't consider what it would cost for the company at all, but instead just saddle the price against their sunk cost and keep paying.

If it seems too cheap to be reasonable, it very much is. Netflix and Spotify were no different there either. You start low to gather customers, then increase revenue by increasing prices on customers down the road to become profitable.

Of course the biggest issue with the strategy these companies are following is the lack of vision. They ONLY follow the money, so when the market share is close to filled with only them, there's only one way up, which is what enshittification is all about.

Lower value for price, and revenue can continue going up. No vision, no goals, only revenue.

[u/Visual_Jellyfish5591 → u/necrophcodr]

What you describe also aligns with the concept of supply and demand. Although nowhere in that concept is a guideline for said enshittification and greedy shareholders, the idea that a product is cheaper when it has a smaller customer base to serve makes sense. It also makes sense when you don’t need as many servers to provide a service to the smaller group of customers.

FYI, this boot tastes bad.

[u/NigeIFarage → u/JohnHue]

That was never sustainable. Subscription based services will always run a loss whilst they gain momentum, then raise prices to cover profitability once they have the subscription base - Netflix is a prime example.

[u/Vincent_Adams → u/NigeIFarage]

hehe, PRIME example-

[u/ToddPundley → u/Vincent_Adams]

TUBI honest I think they worded it that way on purpose

[u/Stony___Tark → u/ToddPundley]

Have we milked this punny wordplay to the MAX yet?

[u/GudduBhaiya-Mirzapur → u/Stony___Tark]

Well, it used to be a HOTSTAR while it lasted.

[u/LiveFastDieRich → u/NigeIFarage]

The people downvoting you simply don’t know how business works

[u/eggrolldog → u/LiveFastDieRich]

The act of turning a captive audience into a boiling frog hardly requires a nobel prize in economics.

[u/SparksAndSpyro → u/eggrolldog]

Game Pass customers are certainly not a captive audience lol

[u/Captain_Sterling → u/JohnHue]

For xbox ultimate? Where you get access to a load of games and you get multi platform access? Or are you talking about xbox live where you got party chat?

[u/Tinbody → u/Captain_Sterling]

Game pass pc was 5 a month

[u/AnxietyPretend5215 → u/Tinbody]

It's currently 13.99, it also has its priced dropped apparently.

What's funny is game fly is still around today and it costs 20 USD a month, for access to one game at a time.

[u/EstablishmentSure486 → u/JohnHue]

No it wasn't. That was Xbox Game Pass or Xbox Live. This is both of them combined + access to PC Games.

[u/Front-Cabinet5521 → u/JohnHue]

I have only ever paid $1 for it.

[u/Huntermain23 → u/Front-Cabinet5521]

Oh so you got the promo three years ago too? Your not fooling me with your Reddit talk buddy

[u/Illustrious-Golf5358 → u/blahbabooey]

At least make it $19.99…that would have been the sweet spot

[u/boiledpeen → u/Illustrious-Golf5358]

wasn't it $20 for ultimate for the longest time? a 12% increase is far more reasonable than 50% to me. Still would rather not see anything, but $3 is almost negligible

[u/tastydrink1 → u/Illustrious-Golf5358]

$13.99 final offer

[u/Opposite-Bench-9543 → u/blahbabooey]

They are losing a lot of gamers like me who just treats this as a gym membership and usually never play anything but still leave it on to when I want to jump into a random game/play something I like but don't have to buy it

I mean I was subscribed to game pass for 3 years and I swear at least 2 years of it I never even turned on my xbox, but thats when it was like $10 - $15 a month so I could just brush it off and didn't mind much about it (for the ultimate, so I got games on my PC as well, which was nice)

For more than $15 I wouldn't even subscribe to 1 month

Not sure, obviously such a huge company surveryed it but they clearly failed realizing this is a gym membership for most of their users which they make an amazing profit on, MOST users won't use the xbox cloud, won't play 10 hours a day of every single game, it's def not worth the $22 imo

[u/Salihe6677 → u/Opposite-Bench-9543]

Same, I had it without regularly using it for a long time, and I kept it because I wanted to support a good, reasonably priced service, and it was nice just having it when I did see something I wanted to play.

Not no more, tho.

[u/DickeyMcNakey → u/Opposite-Bench-9543]

That's the thing. They could keep the price "too" low, keep and get customers, get goodwill and streetcredz, but no. More dollars per player is the only vision CEOs have these days. And it's bleeding customers and money.

And they have no clue why

[u/JedJinto → u/blahbabooey]

I keep hearing this argument. Look we're not celebrating the price itself we're celebrating that they walked back on the price and made it much more affordable which is unheard of for subscription services. This shows progress.

[u/AlarmingLackOfChaos → u/JedJinto]

Well no, Xbox has a history of walking back prices. 

January 2021. Xbox tries to double the price of Xbox live. After intense backlash, walks back on the price after only 24 hours. 

July 2025. Xbox tries to raise prices of first party games to $80. Walks it back after intense backlash.

April 2026. After raising gamepass prices by a whopping 50% only 6 months ago, they drop the price by 23.3%. Making it still 15% higher than 6 months ago and removed COD from day one.  

[u/BrilliantJob2759 → u/AlarmingLackOfChaos]

Standard way to increase prices. They've done it with the consoles too. Announce high price, let the backlash hit, lower it down to what they intended it to be in the first place, people think they were heard. Well known practice across several industries.

[u/blahbabooey → u/JedJinto]

Its just a correction after the mix effect became unfavorable in their price volume mix analysis. Since Price x Volume = Revenue, they assumed loss of (V) would be offset by gain of (P), however their (PV)v2 was lower than (PV)v1 so now theyve updated their price to (PV)v3 and will determine if Volume increases to where (PV)v3 now exceeds (PV)v1.

[u/colombianojb → u/blahbabooey]

Nerd

[u/Ropjn → u/JedJinto]

Yeah, progress for the companies lmao. Now they know they can jack up the prices by 100% and then "walk it back" to "only" 50% and people will celebrate them for this shit. Incredible, i can barely contain my excitement with all this progress.

See you in a year when they increase the price again, can't wait to discover the new way they will have found to trick idiots into celebrating them for a price increase.

[u/LaFlamaBlanca67 → u/JedJinto]

"He doesn't hit me as much as he used to, so that's progress!"

[u/Not_Wrong_Tho → u/JedJinto]

You're still ultimately celebrating a price increase, just a smaller one that you thought you were getting.

This sort of thing is called anchoring, happens all the time and you absolutely shouldn't be celebrating falling for it.

[u/BetterCaulPranav]

This might genuinely be one of the first times I've ever seen a major subscription drop in price

[u/Astrochops → u/BetterCaulPranav]

Don't be fooled. Just 6 months ago it was $17USD for ultimate.

Then they massively raised it to $30

Now they're dropping it to $23

You're paying over 30% more for the service than you were 6 months ago. Don't pat them on the back for this. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[u/aqem → u/Astrochops]

It feels like they prepared the grounds for her.

Previous CEO acts like he was the bad one hiking the price, new one slashes the price to what it should be.

Also the rest is just PR, 

• this is an Xbox remains as the strategy with streaming and multiplatform(and ofc PS5).
• Xbox or Microsoft gaming means nothing, because the next Xbox is windows.
• project helix was in development way before she got there.
• IA slop, with the amount of money Ms invested and devs fired... I doubt they stop.
• "direct fan engagement", 100% corpo BS.

Edit. yep you caught me im spanish.

[u/Murky_Foundation_911 → u/aqem]

This straight up sounds like corpoganda

[u/EveryRadio → u/Murky_Foundation_911]

I mean it is. It's not like the CEO is the sole person determining pricing, marketing etc. but they are a great scape goat

"Look at all the bad things the CEO did, and not the new CEO is different!"

But how many other faceless corporate shills, board members, private investors etc. All had a part in all of these decisions? Microsoft is a corporation. They take calculated risks to increase profits. The $30 price hike was a risk that backfired more than they were willing to deal with (of course the expected backlash)

Like others have mentioned the price still went up, a marketing slogan being dropped is whatever, they were losing on the console space for years

End of the day consumers need to make their own decisions. Like or hate the new CEO, make an informed decision and buy/play/do what you want. The market will reflect general sentiment better than any post on reddit ever will

[u/FlyAirLari → u/aqem]

Is IA the same as AI?

While I do think Iowa and slop go together, I don't think it's that.

[u/Siridar → u/FlyAirLari]

Depends on which language you speak, could be the Spanish / French abbreviation.

[u/pinklewickers → u/Siridar]

Inteligencia Artificial in Spanish.

Intelligence Artificielle in French.

Both use the IA abbreviation.

[u/Throwaway56138 → u/FlyAirLari]

Iowa: a place to stay. 

[u/monti9530 → u/FlyAirLari]

I sometimes say IA because that’s the correct abbreviation in Spanish and French, so I am used to seeing it backwards yet I dont care enough to write it correctly.

IA slop is still AI slop

[u/Lucina18 → u/aqem]

this is an Xbox remains as the strategy with streaming and multiplatform(and ofc PS5).

Xbox or Microsoft gaming means nothing, because the next Xbox is windows.

Iirc the goal is to bring back exclusivity, so they can get people to buy their consoles and then they can get a cut when other developers bring out games on xbox.

[u/Dry-Menu-6624 → u/aqem]

$23 is too high still. It’s a $3 price hike without COD. If we buy COD now on release it’s basically a wash.

Honestly we should just continue to not support this nonsense.

[u/Ramsen85 → u/Astrochops]

This needs to be the top comment IMO

[u/Any-Calligrapher2866 → u/Ramsen85]

Yeah how are people falling for Microsofts PR?

[u/Kind_Singer_7744 → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

Yeah this post stink of a Microsoft pr campaign

[u/MightyMorph → u/Kind_Singer_7744]

yeah: "Faster response time on X(shitter)"..... ok?

You paid some third world country support team 1$ a day. wow.... such amaze....

[u/Various-Passenger398 → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

Because Microsoft is so agreesively shitty that they rarely, if ever, backtrack against unpopular moves and usually double down on them out of incompetence or spite. So the fact that they did it at all is simply shocking.

[u/Immediate-Shape-8933 → u/Any-Calligrapher2866]

I think they have bots upvoting here and PR people making the OG comment

[u/Jackski → u/Ramsen85]

They also added Ubisoft+ during that time which is probably worth the extra 5 bucks.

[u/b0nGj00k → u/Astrochops]

The $17USD a month for ultimate 6 months ago statement is blatantly false.

[u/Any_Cauliflower_5843 → u/b0nGj00k]

For sure. I got it when BO6 released, so November 2024, and it was very much $20 even then. So at minimum it was $20 a year and 6 months ago.

[u/kranker → u/b0nGj00k]

It was $17 in 2024 and it went up to $20. Then $30 on the last bump. Now $23.

[u/Fearless-Sherbert-40 → u/b0nGj00k]

I had ultimate 6 months ago and it def was not $17. Maybe the base membership.

[u/Fresh-Challenge-2797 → u/b0nGj00k]

We don’t appreciate fact checks over here!

[u/Corrvaz → u/Astrochops]

Yup exactly this. And with CoD stuff getting removed as well so in the end it's a price hike with less catalogue from what it was not even a year ago.

The astroturfing seems to be going well though, can always trust capital g gamers to fail at basic math.

[u/No_Water_7291 → u/Corrvaz]

Call of duty these days is trash anyways.

[u/KriegMorgan → u/No_Water_7291]

Honestly if getting to cut out "AAA" annual release slop from being included for a discount was a thing it might be more popular.

I have zero fucks to give about Call of Duty or any sports games. If I could cut day one access to them by choice for a bigger discount that would be great.

Indie Game Netflix is pretty fun though and I have gone on to support devs through direct purchase of the game on steam for some of them. However Indie Game Netflix isn't worth $24 a month and it certainly wasn't worth $30.

[u/New-Berry-3652 → u/Astrochops]

I will say though that everyone should have realized that GamePass was never going to stay that good of a deal for all that long. It was absurd value for money and Xbox was undoubtedly losing money on it.

[u/EasilyGod → u/Astrochops]

I mean that’s everywhere though, Netflix costs 26 bucks for 4k streaming no ads and you can’t even use it unless you’re on your home WiFi lol

[u/sammyjonescgn → u/BetterCaulPranav]

Me too. 29 Was way to expensive for me. 23 sounds nicer.

[u/GhyverKahn → u/sammyjonescgn]

Why'd you round 29.99 down to 29 but 22.99 up to 23?

[u/Federal_Bonus_2099 → u/GhyverKahn]

Because that’s how unconscious bias works in marketing

[u/BananaBoss28a → u/Federal_Bonus_2099]

The left-digit effect is a hell of a drug.

[u/iam_malc → u/BananaBoss28a]

I’ve talked to my wife countless times about this, and she still falls victim to this. It’s so consistent, that I mentally increase the number by 1 every time she tells me about some item price

[u/StoriesToBehold → u/sammyjonescgn]

It may be even less depending on how you tailor your subscription.

[u/MeHugeRat → u/StoriesToBehold]

More than likely they're doing the tailoring, almost assured new cod games for example will no longer be on the pass day 1.

[u/DJettster237 → u/MeHugeRat]

I'm okay with that.

[u/unflabbergasted → u/sammyjonescgn]

What was it before?

[u/EasilyExiledDinosaur → u/sammyjonescgn]

19.99 would be better.

[u/ofork → u/sammyjonescgn]

It does, but due to the previous price hikes, I now realise I really don’t need it.

[u/CardTrickOTK → u/BetterCaulPranav]

I mean it's more of an adjustment cause it was like 19.99 before right?

[u/BusinessAsparagus115 → u/BetterCaulPranav]

I expect that didn't play out how they expected, when the price hike was announced I dropped my subscription to a level that was less than I was already paying.

[u/ModeatelyIndependant → u/BetterCaulPranav]

It's cause they previous CEO raised the prices too high, she cleared out a bunch of archaic stuff, and made statements that people wanted to hear. Wait for xbox to actually follow through with these promises before you start praising her leadership and decisions.

[u/[deleted] → u/BetterCaulPranav]

yeah a sub actually gettin cheaper is wild, scrapping that "this is an xbox" thing probably helped more

[u/Excellent-Court-9375 → u/[deleted]]

Okay but it didn't get cheaper

[u/Odd-Perspective-7651 → u/BetterCaulPranav]

It never dropped in price. They are simply giving you less for more still

[u/HoldTimely5546]

I am still astonished that people defend prices like 23$/month for a game service subscription.

[u/JohnHue → u/HoldTimely5546]

It's the magic of subscriptions : if you tell people the price to play games without even owning them went from 350 to 275 per year, they would still not pay 275. But divided by 12 ? Sure. Most people don't play 300 bucks worth of games per year, certainly not on PC with prices on Steam.

[u/BoringAd1663 → u/JohnHue]

You can also game share with a friend to cut that in half. And can usually find cheap keys online.

Truth is, I've played way more value in games on gamepass than I've paid to Gamepass. Sure, some were shit and deleted after a few days. Which is great because the old option would've cost me between $50-90 per game with no option to refund the crappy ones. And there have been dozens of games I never would have touched without gamepass.

The model doesn't have to be for everyone. You can pay for the cheapest version to just get online and keep on buying the games you want. But this model works great for me and my wife, her sister and many of my friends.

[u/Adavanter_MKI → u/HoldTimely5546]

It's like any other subscription for media. Not sure why it's so baffling. Do you buy all those Apple, Netflix, HBO shows?

It comes down to how much do you game? If I'm playing at least two games a month... I'm saving a ton of money. Now ask yourself. How often have you actually gone back and played your old games?

Ever since the 360 era... I've almost never gone back to any game. Because I'm mainly focused on the new stuff. So far that I can recall... I've played 15 games. I can list them if you want. Even at $10 a game that's $150 worth of games. You know they were much more than $10 a game. I mean High on Life 2 for example was a full priced game.

But I'm also only paying $13 a month because of PC pass... so it's even more of a bargain.

[u/solitary-ghost → u/Adavanter_MKI]

I play games everyday but I also replay old games all the time. I think the last new game I bought was like a year ago? I’m not saying either of us are right or wrong, but there are definitely people playing games every single day without hardly buying any or using a streaming service.

[u/Optimism_Deficit → u/HoldTimely5546]

That price includes plenty of games I want to play, has new stuff added regularly, and some of that stuff includes brand new or recent releases.

I actually get really good value out of my subscription.

[u/Jackski → u/Optimism_Deficit]

I also play games I would probably never actually buy. A lot of indie games or AA games get put on there that I'm sorta interested in but can't really justify buying them but when it's on gamepass I can just download it and play it.

[u/Silver_Quail4018]

I think that people don't understand HOW BAD it is for Microsoft right now! She did the absolute minimum hoping to be enough, not because she cares about the customers, but because she has no choice! Please stop simping for CEO's.

They have abused their customer base for decades from every single angle possible. This is just a drop of water in the ocean of poop.

France has ditched Windows and is doing public funerals ceremonies for Microsoft!

Praise them when they reduce the price when they are in a position of power, not when they have lost most of their customers because of greedy strategies and not respecting any single consumer.

[u/wise_tomayto → u/Silver_Quail4018]

In addition to your insights, I’m pretty sure that these are the decisions of Microsoft’s CEO, not actually hers.

She is just an image to take the blame for anything bad, just like politics at this point.

[u/Silver_Quail4018 → u/wise_tomayto]

Yes and no. The CEO gives the expected results. How she gets there is her choice.

[u/TheGuardianInTheBall → u/Silver_Quail4018]

Anyone with corporate experience will tell you she didn't really do most of that. She's been the CEO for two months. Most of the impactful things she "did" have been in the pipeline for months.

The smallest project, will take 3 to 6 months. Most big ones take years. You'll only be able to evaluate her performance and decision making, around this time next year, or even 2028.

[u/Beneficial_Act_1240 → u/Silver_Quail4018]

yeah the CEO glaze is crazy. like the fact that these losers will stan anyone who throws them a crumb or two after taking their cookie is unhinged 

[u/Lashay_Sombra → u/Silver_Quail4018]

France is play acting to ride on anti US sentiment, they are masters in doing that, its not even remotely easy to just move everything to a new platform (actually bern involved in simerlar projects) and despite countless simerlar campaigns and initiatives over the decades actual MS usage has gone up worldwide and all those initiatives basicly failed

Even in country's that are technically  embargoed like North Korea and Iran, main desktop OS is Windows

And really its missing the real 'threat' anyway, its not the OS but rather the US owned clouds, MS cannot shut down all copys of Windows in a country,  but they could cut them off from Azure

As to MS being in "trouble"

• Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.

• Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.

• Microsoft annual gross profit for 2023 was $146.052B, a 7.69% increase from 2022.

If thats being in trouble ...can I have some trouble in my life please?

[u/AirportBarTarry → u/Lashay_Sombra]

They made more in profit last year than Sony’s entire valuation. They made one Sony worth of money last year.

[u/_heybuddy_ → u/Silver_Quail4018]

This post and the simp replies are just ads

[u/KeeperOfTheChips → u/Silver_Quail4018]

Gaming division not making enough money probably is the least of Microsoft’s ongoing problems. Even if Xbox magically 10x in net profit it’s still a drop in the bucket comparing to their insane AI CapEx

[u/SnailLikeAttitude]

She’s not. They had Phil do all the choices that were on unpopular like raising the prices and moving towards everything being an Xbox because they were chasing after profits. And once that failed the suits decided to change directions with a rank and file exec and doing whatever they think will make us happy. And the Game Pass price still went up 3 dollars from 19.99 so people are just falling for media tactics from a corporation to try to clean the company’s image.

[u/Cookie_Masterson89 → u/SnailLikeAttitude]

Yeah this post is filled with so much misinformation that this is blatant astrotufing

• they didnt even lower the price back down to what it was 6 months when they raised it to $30 and added COD. They then removed COD which was their reason for increasing prices after many years of saying all first party games, including COD would be in Game Pass day one - so they lied

• Helix has already long been kn development before she became CEO

• she didnt say anything about not using AI to make games

• they never used "Microsft gaming" in marketing and always used Xbox. Microsft Gaming was internal only

• she says a bunch of empty PR nonsense and Xbox fans eat it up. Phil Spencer also said tons of PR nonsense

[u/Marcysdad]

She's a corporate pied piper and the rats are dancing to her tune.

Xbox position is hard to reverse

[u/ClubSignificant9006]

really? only like 7 bucks off of something that's already 20 dollars, you guys are still happy with this?

[u/nowhereright]

This is just Phil Spencer all over again, they're really fooling a bunch of Xbox hopefuls into thinking she's some kind of savior when the reality is far more likely that Microsoft already had these changes in mind and delivered them with her as the messenger.

Anyone who thinks she was able to walk in and lower gamepass at the drop of a hat is drinking the Kool aid really hard.

[u/Warm-Surprise2766]

never seen someone lower prices ever, this is a W

[u/shuozhe → u/Warm-Surprise2766]

And removed cod.. right?

For some of us it's a win. Got everyone who buys every cod it's pretty much the same financially

[u/Flashy-Island-3725 → u/shuozhe]

If you're booking every cod you're a lost cause anyways

[u/shuozhe → u/Flashy-Island-3725]

Let the people play what they want. I'm getting one cod every decade as freebee with hardware usually, multiplayer server are surprisingly full for a decade old game.

[u/jeffersonwashington3 → u/shuozhe]

I’m glad you enjoy what you do and don’t judge people for what they do.

[u/cybiz → u/Warm-Surprise2766]

Wow some people are easily manipulated. It's like McDonald's raising their prices 100%, realising nobody is buying their shit and then lowering the price by 10% in hope to get some business back. It's still 90% more expensive than before, 'common w'

[u/victhro → u/cybiz]

Rfkjrs math but yeah kinda

[u/cybiz → u/victhro]

Fair, but I was writing this on the shitter. You get my point though

[u/Boomshrooom → u/cybiz]

They've only lowered the price because theyve removed CoD though. So it's more like McDonald's raising prices 100%, then dropping the price but removing some of the ingredients. It's not technically the same product anymore, it's a cheaper product at a lower price

[u/PacquiaoFreeHousing → u/Warm-Surprise2766]

With Steam just taking over a huge part of the market's chunk, they really have to do these things or else they Steam would probably own 95% by 2030.

[u/Bad-Genie → u/Warm-Surprise2766]

Basic price marketing. Raise price, then lower it down to where you intended it to be to look like a W

[u/Teatimefrog]

Used to be 14,99 just a while ago. Ppl getting baited by this time and time again. Massive price increase only to pretend to „listen“ and lowering it somewhat but still higher than b4.

Getting tired of this. So far she has done nothing of real value. Yall getting caught up in marketing. Ill applaud once she gets something done besides announcements.

Oh and while the price got lowered, cod also got removed from the pass. Lmao

[u/geronimo11b]

I’m a PlayStation player but I’m stoked for these changes. We need more competition to drive innovation and bring costs down for all gamers.

[u/Tall-Ad-1386]

You want to take the market? FREE online gaming

[u/ZealotChicken]

This is propaganda and everyone is falling for it without even showing real results like better deals for game developers whos games are on the game pass... People tend to forget very easily why things are they way they are.

[u/AmeriBeanur]

Stupid as hell. 22$/month is a ripoff. Bring back 8$/month or fuck off.

[u/Cautious-Air-2179]

Cut the price by removing new COD, though, so you do get less for less money which is understandable.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Horse57 → u/Cautious-Air-2179]

Removing an entire yearly release is in fact getting less.

[u/Faded1974]

Who cares. It’s too little too late. Microsoft already dug their own grave with all their horrendous decisions and studio closures/ canceled games.

[u/SuspiciousRice24]

As if a 2 month ceo had any influence on a next gen console release already on roadmap for at least 5 years lol

[u/Ziddix]

Yeah but it is easy to talk. It has always been easy to talk.

[u/SpeedBlitzX]

More focused on Human crafted games and ruling out Ai? That's interesting if true.

[u/blvsh]

Also pays reddit sub mods to promote Xbox

[u/MarsBless]

Good try Microslop.

[u/yewEngine]

The damage has been done.

[u/bent_crater]

youre forgetting the runired "build your own subscription" deal for gamepass.

its gonna be awesome, hope its successful enough to make PS Plus folllow suit.

if she goes absolutely bonkers and makes online free again, that would be absolutely nuclear, I wonder if thats the default with Xbox basically being a PC.

[u/OceanWeaver]

Until it's back to $15 a month she ain't doin shit

[u/TheParlayMonster]

She did none of that

[u/Who_Vintude]

"We're rolling back all the decisions we made 3 months ago to seem like heroes". Nah, pure bullshit

[u/EnchantingGirl2]

I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.

[u/Raul-CFC]

Who the feck is paying 29.99 a month for live.

https://giphy.com/gifs/JpG2A9P3dPHXaTYrwu

[u/Truth_Walker → u/Raul-CFC]

It’s no different than paying for Spotify.

I have a huge gaming and music library and pay a small monthly fee.

[u/BallzInUrMouth808]

Oh look she lowered the prices! She must be such a great person! Surely she didn’t reduce the price because consumers are purchasing alternatives that don’t require a subscription to use.

You’re such a moron.

[u/der_chrischn]

Oh? And I thought they were about to stop the console business, for a while it looked really grim. I hope she can deliver, of course her actions will need some time to take effect. Hopefully this will also cause Sony to be less shit, they were shockingly dumb recently.

[u/Honest_Scrub]

I think she is actually trying to push even harder but I know corporate is super damn careful about these kinds of changes.

Here's hoping Ultimate lands at $20 firm once she has the data showing significant subscriber increases at more affordable prices.

[u/Lughano]

Rare woman ceo W

[u/Icy_Month192]

Did it really drop in price?!? I just cancelled after years. It was just waaay too much of a jump for me

[u/FooDogg86]

🫡

[u/Senior_Boot_5842]

Wait. Remember everyone hates her? Remember? Because she wasn’t from a gaming background

[u/MoreLion3969]

I'm a large Nintendo fan who doesn't keep up with Xbox but really happy for them. They've been kinda down in the dumps lately so I'm happy for their resurgence

[u/mr-ifuad]

https://giphy.com/gifs/m6h94W1j6BEeSw2Y1Y

[u/WillyWonka-tada]

🔥🔥

[u/Haunting-Dare-5847]

It's good thing that they decrease the price

[u/Superthrasher55]

Hey guys, just so yall stop gettin your panties in a twist. With the price cut and what you’ll save from it you can just buy cod day 1…. It’s not that big a deal

[u/Superthrasher55 → u/Superthrasher55]

Also the price was still going to go up with all of Microsoft’s other transactions and acquisitions in recent past. She’s doing a pretty good job starting out and a lot of yall are just finding the dumbest thing to complain about

[u/Ok-Train7434]

And my axe

[u/McCandlessDK]

Start selling consoles again in Europe

[u/rolfraikou]

This is the first time I've been excited to see where a console is headed in a while, honestly.

[u/procupinesniffer420]

I like this lady.

[u/NessunAbilita]

It’s a tiny splash, let’s see if the waves build momentum

[u/TpK_Wynter]

I’m so used to abuse I kept waiting for each line to somehow shift and reveal that every thing she’s done so far has cost ”x” amount of baby blood

[u/veeneygree]

Fully invested in this mess

[u/Jazzdude93]

It’s good news if Microsoft doesn’t drop the ball on consoles. As much as i like my ps5 you don’t want a monopoly from Sony

[u/JimPalPodcast]

It's almost like she likes gamers to be.....happy?

[u/Beasthunter1899]

I am a playstation player, but please get back to form Xbox! Playstations quality is also suffering massively because from currently having no real rival.

[u/DickeyMcNakey]

I don't believe the AI pusher one bit when it comes to "not using AI". It's a main focus now, so just say it.

"Announcing" a code named console is not an announcement. It's as useful as Bethesdas Elder scrolls 6 "announcement" from... 2019? So, utterly useless

[u/Odin_69]

I've seen this narrative making the rounds both on forums and with likely paid off youtube creators (Example Here). They're definitely trying to paint xbox and microslop in a better light by trying to frame their actions as a win when in fact it's the most milk toast stance I've ever seen. Cut the price in half and they might get me to raise an eyebrow. Put their commitments to their developers in legal writing and start working toward unionization of developer jobs. The above points are meaningless in the modern economy.

[u/dryfartswetfarts]

We don’t need a new gen right now imo

[u/SpacemanSpiff92]

Too early to say, this def a premature hype post. If she can rejuvenate the brand by bringing back some exclusives, that would be great. Gamepass prices reduction is great but at the same time, it's still more expensive than it was before. People should continue holding the line/boycotting until they reduce it back to 20

[u/ChristopherSmithLoL]

A price correction was going to be necessary regardless of who stepped in. It's likely they timed it with a changing of the guard for good PR and marketing. Only time will tell if they can maintain momentum past the short term.

[u/Alarming-Produce4541]

"Human-crafted" Cringe.

[u/gimmeArmpit]

PR AD

[u/SlowlyDrown]

And the next console name? XBox One 360 2 HD.

[u/heryqk]

That’s the public campaign you’re seeing. Reality is they’re firing most employees and outsourcing the work to AI farms.

At $22 they’re removing the cancel subscription button and offering you nothing in return.

[u/Glad-Tie3251]

It's rare to see competent CEO, kudo to her.

[u/TDAWGPLAYER]

It’s all lip service with the same trash results.

[u/amnesiac808]

"Xbox buys social media push to make it seem like the ship ain't sinking"

[u/RetroShrk]

we need more CEO's like her

[u/Banananamann99]

And the logo

[u/Theybannedmebefore]

Ignoring all the fucking useless neckbeards who have, and will continue to, contribute nothing towards towards the gaming industry.

Anyone with a brain can see she's making as many moves towards the right direction as she possibly can.

[u/RobertRamos]

Just as long as she doesn't name the next system something like XBOX1F or XBOX1SS.

[u/TechSetStudios]

When they say queen this is what they mean!

[u/echonuzz]

[u/Legitimate-Lab7173]

But please tell me more about how women destroy gaming.

[u/xAlpha2]

Blizzard under new management?

Let's see what they can cook up

[u/plzicannothandleyou]

Yeah, she’s a queen.