Shared in Technology@lemmy.world 4 days ago

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

Linked to https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/xbox-wants-you-to-pay-24-to-40-cents-per-hour-to-stream-games-you-already-bought/

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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 days ago

wanting and getting dont always happen

sompreno@lemmy.zip 2 days ago

Your playing for cloud computing which as never been free very misleading headline

DrSoap@lemmy.world 2 days ago

It’s already part of the monthly fee. They are now tacking on an additional charge. It thought it was pretty clear.

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 days ago

Iirc One of the previous heads of xbox said that they’re intentionally trying to kill the xbox brand over time by enshittyfying it (or words to that effect).

This might very wel be that. They know damn well this will piss people off.

DrSoap@lemmy.world 2 days ago

What is the end goal of killing Xbox? Not having to deal with consoles and just concentrate on computers?

FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 days ago

I don’t know. I mean I wouldn’t put it past themto try and merge the whole gaming experience into the Windows ecosystem. We all know what geniuses they are doubling down on the whole slop ridden W11 thing.

architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago

Where is the line for gamers? They think you’re marks.

mHtt@lemmy.ca 2 days ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ju_10NkGY

kingkong@lemmy.world 2 days ago

tell microsoft to eat itself its time hopefully microsoft turns from a 5b company to 0 dollars in time.

ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 2 days ago

Not that I dont share your sentiment. But Microsoft market cap is as of right now 3.9 Trillion. Not 5 billion.

Qkall@lemmy.ml 2 days ago

as a paperspace user i read the first part as ‘oh nice’ … then i kept reading. i’ll keep paying 0.76USD/hr. i don’t have time to justify paying for a gaming pc… especially now. so paperspace has been great when i want to play a high end game. my library, mods. but yeah… m$ hell bent on destroying their company for copilot.

rounding_error@lemmy.today 2 days ago

game streaming.

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 2 days ago

Oh fuck no.

NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 days ago

Whatever. I would never allow an Xbox in my house. When they came out it was obviously just another shit product from a shit company. Hard pass.

The upside is hopefully it will just continue to alienate their market.

kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 days ago

Halo 2 on Xbox was kind of a blast. But otherwise yeah

dropdrip@lemmy.ml 2 days ago

More like a phenomenon. Things come and go though. I don’t play games anymore; I don’t even know what’s popular.

Halo died a long time ago when I was still playing. Halo: Reach felt like the start of its decline.