- Microsoft has announced another price increase for Xbox Game Pass
- The membership page crashed due to mass cancellations
- Adhesion to an ultimate level will now cost $ 29.99 / £ 22.99 / $ 35.95 in per month
It has been barely a few weeks since Microsoft announced price increases for its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles earlier in September, and it is found again at the center of the controversy – and it seems that players unite against this question.
As highlighted by Notebookcheck, Microsoft’s membership page crashed after the announcement of the Xbox Game game price increases, while a plethora of users rushed to the site for cancellations.
Without sugar, Xbox gradually repels its consumers further from all its ecosystem, including the PC players (like me) who used Game Pass as a cheap method to play new titles on the first day – and it has obviously become clear once I went to cancel my subscription, and I was welcomed with several page errors, indicating mass cancellations (and here is how to cancel the game game if you don’t already know).
The website to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions is overloaded pic.twitter.com/vlzpsodadfOctober 1, 2025
I canceled my Xbox Game Pass subscriber. It was the first generation where I did not buy an Xbox but I always used Game Pass on PC, now I am cut off from this brand and I have 0 desire to have a console or an Xbox service again. pic.twitter.com/mtjeult85aOctober 2, 2025
At this stage, it seems that the Microsoft Xbox brand cannot take a break with negative comments and reactions, but many will say that it only has to blame. The prices of the game increased earlier last year, the prices of the Xbox console soar and the new ROG Xbox Ally X costs $ 999, so it is not a wild suggestion to say that consumer complaints are justified.
Based on the scale of fan reactions, we can see Xbox come back to new Game Pass prices, because we have seen it occur with certain games, such as External worlds 2,, Where the controversy of the price of $ 80 led to a possible drop to $ 70.
This is another case where voting with consumers voting with their portfolios can be essential to arouse reasonable price changes, and these changes can even arrive earlier than expected.
Analysis: Sony’s Playstation more is the following, and I can feel it
This is just a matter of time, but I expect Sony to follow the same traces as Microsoft Xbox with its PlayStation Plus membership service, just in the same way that I plan a possible standard game standard of $ 80.
Some of you could suggest that this is eccentric, but it almost seems that Sony PlayStation, the Xbox of Microsoft and Nintendo are all in wicks to increase the prices of the game equipment or the games themselves. This feeling came after Microsoft announced that its first -part Xbox games would cost $ 80, which was not too long after Nintendo’s announcement.
I feel that Sony is waiting for the controversy concerning the prices of the game and the membership services to be set (or at least to normalize) before imposing its own new price standards.
These measures in the three giant companies for console games make games on PC much more attractive than ever, especially if you consider this Online games have always been free, and it should never change.
My only major concern is that once more consumers are found on the PC ecosystem, this is when we start to see more controversial decisions, and I fear that the price increases of the Xbox game are only the start of PC players.
