I honestly can't imagine paying $20/month for it. PC game pass will still get day 1 games at $12/month (was $10 before this) but it's still not great value, and the trend of where this is going is so obvious that I wouldn't want to bother using it anyways.

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Enshitification continues

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, this is a case of them offering a better deal than actually ever made sense, because they expected the volume of subscribers to make up for it, but that never manifested.

[–] FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Loss leader to buy market share. It was never going to be profitable at those rates.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Maybe before an Activision acquisition and the implosion of the console business model.