It’s been six months since the great Game Pass price hike of late 2025. The one that saw Ultimate leap to a staggering $29.99 a month. For me, and a vocal contingent of the Xbox faithful, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I wrote back in October about how the service had finally stopped delivering the value I personally needed.
At the time, Microsoft’s justification for that 50% jump was the “enhanced value” we were getting. More day-one games, upgraded Cloud Gaming (now officially…

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