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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1680733391464071169
@Wario64: Xbox Live Gold will apparently transition to Xbox Game Pass Core on Sept 1st
-includes online multiplayer and various benefits -same price as XBLG -Existing XBLG subscribers will convert to Core -includes 25 Game Pass titles -GWG offers will end
cafe.naver.com/xboxinfo/100598
Don't forget that businesses are not your friend. They don't care about you. They only care about making money.
I know. I didn't say they were. That's why I said we can be skeptical, but there's no reason to be so upset screaming fuck Microsoft when they are currently being really great when it comes to gaming.
The same could be said about steam, by the way. At any moment Gabe can fuck us over, or can die and we get fucked, but until we see that happen, I feel like we all trust steam.
You can be skeptical over Microsoft, especially because of their past, but their new manager in charge of their gaming division is doing really well. In fact, I'd say investing in Microsoft for gaming right now is a better deal, considering it's a cheaper monthly fee. My steam account has a bit over 10,000 dollars of games in it that Gabe can take back at any time. That's 666 months (55.5 years) of an Xbox game pass subscription in Canada. It's more risky for me to continue buying on steam. I won't, as I love steam as a platform, but it still is more risky.
Try cancelling the Gold subscription and then tell me how really great they are. All the shenanigans you hear American companies using to prevent you from doing that suddenly rear their ugly head. 'Oh the membership portal is down, call in', [2hour wait on the phone later] 'oh, you need to contact this dept. instead even if this was the number support gives you for cancelling subs'. 'oh fine you want to cancel okay, but it will only take effect at the end of the month and IF you use the service any time between now and then it will renew the subscription'... and so on until you call the CC company, ask them to revoke the autopayment, they refuse (because you had an agreement that's lasted so long), so you close the card and warn them any and all payments that come out are their problem so get on that shit now before it costs them money...
Nah, they're a corporation. One with negative influences that far exceed what little good this ONE aspect of their business might seem to you. Even in this 1 thing, they are good to you until that is no longer in their interest, then they try to F you every way they can.
Fuck Microsoft, especially for Gold Live for fooling rubes into thinking they're this great magnanimous gift to humanity.
I've cancelled various subscriptions through Microsoft probably 10 times over the last 15 years and never had any issues. In fact my experience is often that the bigger the company the easier it is to cancel things or get a refund. Hell Amazon has on multiple occasions just sent me money for something I wanted to return and told me to not bother even returning it.
Obviously I'm not defending megacorporations - they're fundamentally incompatible with a moral society, but of my many complaints with them, "Their products don't work" or "Their customer service is subpar" is almost never one of them.