It feels like we’re living in some alternate dystopian future for Xbox. Once an unstoppable juggernaut during the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-360″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/xbox-360″>Xbox 360 era, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-october-2025-changes”>Microsoft is now charging upwards of $360 a year for Game Pass Ultimate. The company justifies this price hike with perks that many players, myself included, didn’t ask for.
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