Microsoft said Friday it would raise the price of its Xbox Live Gold subscriptions – causing threats from gamers to browse the rival Playstation.
The one-month subscription to Xbox Live, which is required to play games like “Call of Duty” online, increases from $ 10 to $ 11, while a three-month plan jumps from $ 5 to $ 30.
Users who prefer to buy in bulk are even luckier with Microsoft MSFT,
turning his 12-month, $ 60 option into a 6-month plan. This means that the price of an entire year of Xbox Live Gold has actually doubled from $ 5 per month to $ 10 per month.
Upset users have speculated that the change is part of an effort by Microsoft to get people to sign up for its monthly Xbox Game Pass subscription service, which gives users access to a game library for $ 10 a month.
“Every few months, Xbox needs to do something to remind people that it’s not really that much about players or reality,” VentureBeat reporter Jeff Grubb said. posted on Twitter about change. “$ 120 for a year of Xbox Live Gold (to intimidate people in the Game Pass) is the latest example.”
“I can’t wait to borrow and sell all my organs just to afford Xbox Live Gold,” said another user. wrote.
Other players have started calculating on PlayStation SNE,
subscription offers, pointing out that 12 months from rival Xbox costs another $ 60.
“I’m not sure what makes Xbox Live Gold much better than PlayStation Network to justify this price difference,” said one person. posted on Twitter.
Indeed, the number of users who complained eventually got the “PlayStation” trend on Twitter, along with the “Xbox Live Gold”.
Microsoft, in a blog post, defended its move, saying that “the price of Xbox Live Gold has not changed for years and in some markets, it has not changed for over 10 years.”
“We periodically evaluate the value and pricing of our services to reflect changes in regional markets and to continue investing in the Xbox community,” the company said.
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