Xbox Game Pass: with this new feature, you will no longer be able to escape price increases

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Clearly, there are changes on the Microsoft side. Just a few days ago, the tech giant announced that it would review the pricing of its Xbox Game Pass. This is (very) bad news for players. Microsoft's gaming service is entitled to a little cleanup. So, a new subscription appears and the important information concerns the prices: they will increase (again). Xbox subscribers had already had the unpleasant surprise of experiencing a price increase last year. From next September, again, you'll have to put your hands in your wallet.

But Microsoft is adding a new rule from September 18. It will soon no longer be possible to purchase multiple subscriptions and accumulate them over several years.

Bad news for Xbox Game Pass subscribers

Faced with rising prices, some players wanted to outsmart the system. When Xbox Game Pass subscriptions are on sale or just before a price increase, some people do not hesitate to purchase several subscriptions in advance and activate them later. In this way, it was possible for them to benefit from more advantageous prices for several years and to slip through the cracks.

A glitch in the matrix that Microsoft intends to put in place from September 18, 2024. In fact, from this date, Internet users will no longer be able to accumulate more than 13 months of subscription. In the press release published by Microsoft, it is written in black and white: “the maximum extension limit for Game Pass for console will be 13 months” .

We suspect that with this announcement, Microsoft should attract the wrath of its customers. In addition to increasing its prices and preventing the smartest from escaping, Microsoft's new formula has a huge flaw: players will no longer necessarily have access to new games on the day of their release. . And that, logically, is never fun.

These changes come following the acquisition of Microsoft by Activision Blizzard, which took very long months to come to fruition.

The good news, in all of this, is that this new feature will take effect from September 18 while the price increase is scheduled for September 12, 2024. Consequently, it should be possible to take advantage of it one very last time’ ;#8230;

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