From PC World: I’ve often considered that Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is the best deal in gaming, if you’re looking to get a huge amount of variety and access for a small monthly fee. I might have to recalculate after the latest price hike. This morning Microsoft announced prices going up in the U.S. by quite a lot, rising from $19.99 to $29.99 USD for the all-you-can-play Ultimate package.
That still includes hundreds of local and streaming games (heavily featuring titles published by Microsoft’s various studios, of course) across Xbox and PC, and sometimes jumping between them. Microsoft is also trying to convince players that the increased price comes with extra incentives, including a new selection of “classics” from the Ubisoft+ catalog of digital games. There’s also a new partnership with Epic which includes the Fortnite Crew subscription starting in November. This adds a bunch of skins and digital currency for the popular battle royale game.
Microsoft says these additions are worth $16 and $12 a month, respectively…but of course when it comes to all-digital assets, the “value” is set by the companies in question. Whether you agree with them is up to you…and I don’t. Even as someone who plays Fortnite regularly and gets the battle pass for most seasons, I’ve never seen the point of Crew, and I’m not especially tempted by creaky old Ubisoft games, either.
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