Ryuu96 said:
I think even inflation aside, everyone was bragging about Game Pass being "the best deal in gaming" and how much of a steal it was, because it is a very good steal, hundreds of titles available and 1st party on day one for that cheap? Now a Bethesda RPG day one for that cheap? Possibly ABK titles? The price increase was inevitable, that was obvious to anyone. At a $1-$2 increase it's still incredibly good value and about to be even better value when Xbox gets on a regular release schedule starting with Forza Motorsport, Starfield and leading into Avowed, Hellblade II, etc. And IF Activision-Blizzard comes onboard it's about to be insane value, Lol. Big if but even without it, Game Pass is about to pop off. I don't really see the difference whether they increase $10 now or $10 over the next 5-6 years (or whatever price) and a $1-$2 increase now is way better than a much higher price increase now. If they keep increasing in price, we can unsub whenever we want and vote with our wallets, when it hits our limits of what we're willing to pay. The Netflix complaining is a bit meh...People can unsub whenever they want...I don't think people are that stupid that they don't notice a price increase because it happens over a few years rather than over 1 day, I notice it and I'm still subbed, Lol. When people are looking through their balances at stuff to cut, the subscription services will be first to go if they are too costly. There's a lot of internet complaining about Netflix but clearly a massive amount still consider it worth the money, if they hit a threshold which causes a mass drop-off then that's their own fault and consumers will vote with their wallets which will maybe cause Netflix to re-adjust the price again and it ain't like Netflix can do whatever they want when they have more than enough competition now. Though no TV Streaming service is profitable aside from Netflix, soo... |
Well yeah, of course, the value proposition of GamePass is way higher than it was when introduced and would be able to justify an increase in price on its own, but to put that into effect MS would need to increase the monthly fee higher than at introduction adjusted for inflation or else they are still proposing a better proposition at still lower cost.
$9.99 in 2017 is $11.25 in 2023 if we take a normal inflation of around 2%. However, with actual inflation (US), it is $9.99*1.019*1.023*1.014*1.07*1.065*1.027 = ~$12.36
So as long as it's below those numbers I have a hard time attributing the current increase to the increases in value propositions.
