- Microsoft announced another price increase for Xbox Game Pass
- Membership side crashed due to mass cancellations
- The ultimate tier -membership now costs $ 29.99 / £ 22.99 / AU $ 35.95 a month
It has hardly gone a few weeks since Microsoft announced Price Rayses for his Xbox Series X- and Xbox Series consoles earlier in September, and it finds itself at the center of controversy once again – and it seems that players unite against this issue.
When Microsoft’s member page was highlighted by NotebookCheck, Microsoft’s membership page crashed following the announcement of Xbox Game Pass Price increases when an abundance of users rushed to the place of cancellations.
Without sugar coating it is pushing Xbox gradually its consumers further away from his entire ecosystem, including PC players (like myself) who have used gaming passes as a cheap method to play new titles day one – and it became clear when I went to cancel my subscription, and were met with multiple pages, which indicated mass launches (and here is how to cancel it,
Website to cancel Xbox Game Pass — subscriptions is overloaded pic.twitter.com/vlzpsodadfOctober 1, 2025
Canceled my Xbox Game Pass sub -image. This was the first gene where I didn’t buy an Xbox, but I still used gaming passes on PC, now I am cut off from this brand & I have 0 desire to ever own an Xbox console or service again. RIP to what was once my favorite consoles ever. pic.twitter.com/mtjEult85aOctober 2, 2025
At this point, it seems that the Microsoft Xbox brand can’t get a break with negative feedback and setbacks, but many will argue that it is only blamed. Prices for game passes were raised earlier last year, the Xbox consolation prices Skyrocketing, and the new ROG Xbox Ally X costs $ 999, so it’s not a wild proposal to say consumer complaints are justified.
Based on the scale of a fan -backlag we can see Xbox Go back on the new prices for Game Pass as we’ve seen this happen with certain games, such as The outer worlds 2At Where the $ 80 -priced controversy led to a possible dropdown to $ 70.
This is another case where voting with consumers who vote with their wallets may prove to be central to triggering reasonable price changes, and these changes can even come faster than expected.
Analysis: Sony’s PlayStation Plus is next and I can sense that
It’s just a matter of time, but I fully expect Sony to follow in the same footprints as Microsoft Xbox with its PlayStation Plus Membership Service, just as I expect a possible $ 80 game price standard.
Some of you may suggest this is long -term, but it almost feels like Sony PlayStation, Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo are all in Cahoots when raising the prices of gaming hardware or games themselves. This feeling came after Microsoft announced that its first-party Xbox games would cost $ 80, which wasn’t too long after Nintendo’s announcement.
I feel that Sony is waiting for controversy regarding game and membership prices to settle (or at least be normalized) before imposing their own new price standards.
These measures across the three giant companies for console games make PC games far more appealing than ever before, especially when you consider Online games have always been free and that should never change.
My only big concern is that once again consumers find their way into the PC ecosystem, that’s when we start to see more controversial decisions take place and I fear that the Xbox Game Pass Price increase is just the start of that for PC players.
