@Sol4ris wouldn't that he a treat so soon after the announcement!

@RiverGenie ouch XD

@Scummbuddy agreed its a fantastic gift for the community. Remember clicking in your controller's thumbstick (iirc) to make your avatar burp? 😆

@Millionski Microsoft's Azure business unit continues to grow rapidly. Apparently Xbox isn't much of a muchness at all across the broader company. (certainly seems that way given their recent moves!) So I think that many Microsoft execs are delighted by the increase in cloud capacity that they can potentially shunt to their business customers, and/or AI workloads 🙄

Microsoft's comms to any Australian customers may be due to them receiving legal advice that implementing the new limits for existing customers may be considered an unfair contract term. They've been down this road before.

The Australian regulator (ACCC) is currently taking legal action against Amazon Australia because they forced existing prime customers to pay for removing ads on prime, after advertising the service as ad-free.

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/amazon-in-court-for-introducing-ads-to-prime-video-using-allegedly-unfair-contract-terms

Microsoft was previously sued by the ACCC for their illegal Microsoft 365 AI subscription practices

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions

A week later, Microsoft issued a Wordsalad statement that was supposed to be an 'apology'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/microsoft-to-refund-customers-for-365-subscription-price-hike/105977094