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@BritDad Exactly!!!!!

This is why lot companies really try shove digital down our throats and sadly the digital fanatics lack the foresight to see all digital is such a very, very, very, bad idea and want.

Prices will go thru the roof. That's on top of owning NOTHING as well. Again no idea why digital fanatics not have foresight see this as such anti-consumer. They'll be first to cry when things become horrible. It's like well, get what ask for.

@Nic-Noc20th-C Dropping down (especially if went to game pass essential) will be smartest move in Xbox you've most likely ever done.

Trust me.

@Kaloudz Writing seems be on wall now.

Really hope you're wrong. Motorsport been fav mine since first one.

This is very disappointing news.

Much prefer Motorsport over Horizon.

Anyone else getting more disappointed with every new variation of Lara, she is becoming less and less top heavy.

Say what you will. But I absolutely miss the old Lara. Lol

I'm very curious see how this game plays. My only major concern is it's free to play. Which means it will eventually become, pay to win, sooner, rather than later.

Maybe call of duty fatigue finally setting in?

Maybe people finally tired of the call of duty cheap kids in multiplayer?

Maybe the drastic, unnecessary game pass price increase finally bit Microsoft?

I'm in. Loved old Republic back in the day.

Keep hoping see starfield deluxe edition for about $25 - $30. No luck yet.

I'm going call baloney on this one.

Netflix really wants a gaming presence. This would solidify that. Truly believe he is downplaying with that statement.

@OldGamer999 The whole working from is an excuse lazy people love to use just put in maybe couple hours of work and credit for full work day.

Very refreshing see someone call it out, even in a sly way.

@CaptainCluck True Crime Streets of LA was awesome back in the day.

The exciting plans for Game Pass is to increase the monthly subscription price by $20 more across all tiers by end of 2026.

@Jenkinss Glad someone else is old like me and straight up refuses to say WWE.

It will always be WWF. Nothing else.

Basing my answer on from what I remember, Infinite was supposed be a platform that was to be supported for 10 years with story content, etc.

From that aspect I say Infinite failed horribly.

Then factor in I played hardly any multiplayer at all because I found it terrible. Halo 4 Big Team Battle the only Halo I ever enjoyed. So not even the multiplayer redeemed the game for me.

Sadly, not even these few items make the overpriced Ultimate worth the asking price.

Canceled my Ultimate the other month. Have not even looked back. Not even missed it.

Just wait until it's about $40-$45 a month in couple years. Love hear how people justify it.

I wanted play GTA Online. Tried it once. And found it the usual gankfest that kind of games are.

Just want play the game or the mission and enjoy myself. Not be ganked and trolled nonstop by people that have no life and participate in this kind behavior to justify their existence.

This still the case? Or is GTA Online actually playable now?

Netflix been trying get in the gaming world with seemingly nonstop failure. Guess just buying a successful catalog they believe will bring success. If handle it and continously drop the ball like Microsoft. It won't.

As side note, really hope people wake up and stop embracing digital so much, and get back to physical. This is first step in gatekeeping catalogs.

In not too distant future, if want watch or play anything, you will have check what, studio/developer has it, then find the overpriced streaming service, then see if subscribed, or if want to add yet another overpriced subscription to your budget. All that hassle. Just to watch or play whatever it is wanted to in first place.

@ZYDIO Xbox Live was far superior to anything Xbox offers now.

Plus could buy 12 month Xbox Live card (something ANY level of Game Pass FAILS to offer) for $40.

Unless enjoy, 8 bit NES, jumping over lava pit games from the 1980s? Essential is the only way to go. Especially when looking at that $30 month Ultimate.

Ultimate likely going to hit $40-$50 by 2027. Microsoft only shooting self in foot at this point.

No comparisons with Series X? Or I miss that?

@NeoRatt You may not know this. But....

Bungie wanted to create a Halo MMO (early screenshots can be found online) but Microsoft said not going to happen. So bungie threw a fit and left.

Playing destiny, at least I could tell and feel, is straight up reskin of that Halo MMO. Lot gunplay and weapons, enemies and their movement and attacks. Felt just like big rehash.

Probably bungie just wanted to not waste the production cost and changed the world and lore to something new. Called it destiny. Rest is history (in how to ripoff your fanbase and nickle and dime them).

Wonder if Destiny will keep the same business model of, incredibly overpriced DLC, that severely lacks in content.

Then pulls it from server where people can no longer play the DLC they paid for.

I'm still disappointed in what seems that Microsoft is letting forza motorsport not grow or advance any more.

I'm a star trek fan. But did anyone else try star trek online and were totally lost?

The map on the starbase thing I had no idea where I was, where needed go. The starship upgrade system I was lost. Starship combat I was lost. Getting and selecting and activating and choosing quests I was lost. Was just lost at anything. Really bummed me out.

I play elder scrolls online, so I'm not completely ignorant to MMO type games. But star trek online? Goodness. Thought all interfaces were just absolutely terrible and not intuitive in any way.

@OldGamer999 I will forever despise pc gaming. Zero desire in constantly buying new cards, memory, motherboards, or whatever other nonsense just to play new game.

Console, put disc in, install disc (which still bothers me), then play the game, never have worry about getting new console for about 10 years.

Simple. Easy. And it works. No need for second mortgage get new graphic cards to play game that just came out.

I'm still looking for a quality, wireless, but affordable Xbox style controller for Playstation.

Only reason not purchased Playstation is because of the controller. Despise their shoulder and trigger buttons and placement. Also can't stand the positioning of sticks. Xbox nailed it with off center placement.

@KITG_Group_BrunoB Disc drive is NOT negotiable for me. At all. Ever. No exceptions.

No disc drive? No buy. Period.

@CaptainCluck Perfectly appreciate the humor.

But sadly this is EXACTLY what nadella is going for with everything Microsoft. Just need add in an unnecessary, overpriced subscription for anything possible. And that is nadella's plan. He needs to go. Like yesterday.

Not bad deal for $100.

About same price for month Game Pass Ultimate now.

Bond is just company mouthpiece reciting pre-approved propaganda.

Never did impress me. Doubt ever will. Even Phil is starting to bother me now.

Bond is just company mouthpiece reciting pre-approved propaganda.

@Gabrie If Microsoft offered 12 month plan for Ultimate (which they should have LONG time ago) say like $200 - $220. It would been smartest move.

Willing bet lot this backlash going on been heck lot less.

I said years ago this was coming. Game pass is incredibly flawed and unsustainable business model and it would be $40-$50 month in few years.

I was not wrong. Not be surprised by end of 2026 it's $40 or hair shy.

Warned everyone it was coming. No one took me serious.

But I was right.

@You-come-to-me Halo 4 multiplayer still the absolute best of the series and the only halo multiplayer I ever actually enjoyed.

For record, I despise all Call of Duty multiplayer.

Oh I don't know?

Maybe because Destiny's whole business model is - - excessively overpriced DLC, that severely lacks in content? Then remove the paid DLC from servers.

All the above is why I quit playing destiny after the first DLC from Destiny 1. The game is straight up grift.

Wonder if this means the sweaties will move on to something else and the game will actually be enjoyable?

@Xboxian360 Anything Xbox prior Don Mattrick is solid. Anything after. Disappointment.

What is major Nelson doing now? Not think ever heard or seen article on that.

Granted I not read everything either.

This is always very unpopular opinion.

But I still stand firm that Halo 4 multiplayer was the absolute best out all them and it is not even close the one with most amount of hours I spent in any Halo multiplayer.

It is also important, full disclosure, I absolutely detest any and all Call of Duty multiplayer.

No multiplayer?

At that point why not just take Cortana out the campaign too.

@AverageGamer Nadella was in Microsoft before the promotion. I'm willing to bet money he was making decisions in and for other areas as part of grooming for the new job.

Everything wrong with Microsoft falls squarely on nadella's shoulders.

@InterceptorAlpha Of Xbox?

Try Microsoft as a whole. The guy can not leave fast enough.

I really, really, really, wanted play this game. We just can't get enough new IPs in gaming.

It's better than getting the 50th remake, remaster of, Last of Us or Halo.

All games should come with offline mode.

No exceptions.

Ninja Gaiden Series S visuals suffer? Not on a Series S?

Say it isn't so. Not on the all powerful Series S.

I really believed the next gen console Microsoft was going do Xbox like the Switch console.

But over last couple months really feel I'm very wrong with that belief. Believe now it will be normal console with no dock to be optional handheld mode.

@Runex2121 "expected to go along with the $50 a month gamepass sub.(future pricing)"

Be very careful even joking that. I still stand by my prediction that will be reality within next 2 years. Yet....

People here did not respect my opinion or thoughts on that and even insulted me. Which is very much against forum rules. But I end up being the one that could not post for like a week - - if you follow what I'm saying.

Can't make this stuff up. I really thought on being financial supporter for the site and display blue ribbon. But treatment like the above absolutely removes my goodwill.

@Weebleman Exactly!

And we all know what kind of a storm Lahey would call Xbox at this point.

Sadly I do think more attention will be on Horizon. Which bums me out since I'm a much bigger Motorsport fan and player of the two.