Bad news Microsoft, I didn’t just leave gamepass, I left windows.
The same thing happened to me. Gamepass was the last thing holding me to Windows. After the price hike I cancelled, and then had no good reasons left not to try Linux.
Same, though I keep a defanged AtlasOS version on dual boot for the rare things that absolutely require that garbage.
I’ve just axed win10 completely and never ever felt like I’ve needed it the past two years for anything.
That’s my plan. Just making sure everything works on my linux install. Once I’m happy with it I’ll wipe the drive and install AtlasOS for that random one off thing that doesn’t work.
I’m trying to sit on windows 10 on my gaming PC until Valves PC Linux distro releases, just because I hate doing an OS swap more than I have to. I moved my laptop to Mint like a year ago.
I stopped using Gameapass when I got a Steam Deck
Microsoft doesn’t want me to use their product so I won’t.
That’s why I stopped playing Minecraft, because they don’t want me to. (Bedrock with controller does not work on Linux)
33 minutes and nobody has offered an impractical yet potentiall workable solution(?) yet… maybe it really isn’t possible.
Unfortunately that’s the case with all UWP applications, they’re deep-rooted into the OS
I played with using the google play store version, but it kept showing out of date and kept having to log back into google. Not worth my time.
WinBoat maybe? It’s technically a Windows VM so it works better than Wine for certain things. No idea how well it’ll worke with Minecraft though.
Play java edition is the only possible outcome (not sure if it works with a controller tbh)
One of the big issues MS, and many other, companies will have is that it doesn’t work out like the Goldilocks story.
“Okay. That price was too high. Let’s dial it back just a bit, and it’ll be juuust right. ……Why aren’t people coming back?”
People burned by high prices will find alternatives, and can very quickly settle with the transition issues of those alternatives. The same has been found on conveniences like potato chips.
When I had enough, I researched how to get the games “cost-efficient”. And to my surprise it was very easy, safe and guess what: affordable. Since then I “saved” around 500$ and only spend my money on some Indie Games… Even if the prices should now fall again and become acceptable, the probability that I will buy my games through the conventional way is low.
Exactly. People hate change and when you force them to change they will almost never come back if they find a decent alternative
For me it was Spotify. Their radio mixes were far too repetitive and I got sick of hearing the same songs so I shopped around, and I found out Tidal offers higher quality streaming at a lower price. Extra bonus: Tidal’s radio mixes are far more diverse. Small caveat: not everything is on Tidal; some albums missing, some artists don’t publish to it because Spotify and iTunes are the forerunners with most tech manufacturers supporting them natively (such as the Spotify integration in Bose hardware), whereas Tidal maintains the audiophile niche (only integrated with Sonos and Bang & Olufsen I believe).
I really want to move to Tidal, cheaper and better quality audio. I just wish they’d implement smart speaker support as that’s the only blocker for my family.
Sure I can load up the app, play a song and select the speaker as a pkayback device, but for the rest of my house this is either too much effort compared to saying “play x”, or they’re minors without phones.
I agree, it would be nice.
Last I checked it’s a mess. When I had Nest Audio speakers, Google’s given reason for not integrating Tidal was Tidal’s lack of playback API. Meanwhile Music Assistant for Home Assistant is entirely capable of using Tidal API, or at least masquerades as a client. But yeah, the best solution for Tidal is using Sonos speakers and choosing music in either the Sonos app, or the Tidal app via casting, and the only voice support is through Amazon Alexa but I think only the USA has that add-on enabled.
The change saw Game Pass Ultimate jump 50%, rising from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. PC Game Pass also increased from $11.99 to $16.49, marking nearly a 40% hike.
The only Microsoft service I was using was Game Pass. For me, it was never cheap… the price was fair for what they offered. But after they doubled it I cancelled immediately and never looked back. And I would not, even if they decided to drop the price back again to what it was. Because now I know it is unreliable, and they will raise the price again as soon as they feel comfortable.
Typical of MS though, so that didn’t surprise me at all. They just can’t keep a reliable and fair priced service for long. As soon as they believe they can fuck people up, they do.
But thankfully nowadays we have so many options, to whatever product Microsoft offers, that’s actually not as hard to get free of them as they might think.
When they hiked the price, I dropped from Ultimate to the minimum required for online multiplayer. I imagine that each month I put the difference in my Steam Machine fund (or some custom built PC running SteamOS).
Yes! They actually heard me!
Usually I get pissed about these things and nobody cares.
Most people do it as a hobby, something to de-stress. Microsoft just assumes everyone is a 10y old with rage issues and a love for Antebellum South Linguistics.
I left after the first price hike.
Like thuy give a fuck, the real question is whether it improved profitability.
Yup.
