Looks like top management has completely given up on gaming following the disastrous acquisitions of Activision and Zenimax.
They've killed their first party studios, their hardware and now their last remaining thing which was the game pass.
Always remember, Fitgirl is free.
When it went up from $15 to $20 I stopped paying automatically, figured I'd just sub some months. Like when Blue Prince came out, I paid for a month.
Now it's doubled? I'll never re-up. I have a Series X — I'll never buy a game new for Xbox at this point.
When my last computers went out, I replaced them with Macs. They doubled the price of Microsoft 365 so I dropped that too. iWork is fine (and there's LibreOffice for non-Mac users (and for us as well) and that looks like it's gotten better than last time I tried it). For free, I'm not complaining. If I were, I'd have decent options.
I feel like Microsoft is taking a nose-dive in more than just gaming.
yikes
Mac hardware and software are decades ahead of Microsoft equivalents right now, if someone isn’t interested in Linux or high-end desktop gaming it’s completely reasonable to swap.
Yeah, I know, right? Imagine not needing all that spyware. It's actually pretty great.
I can't imagine having a chain so tightly around my neck that my reaction to seeing someone else lose theirs is "yikes."
Yikes, indeed.
there's some art software that's better on mac but that's about it. the hardware costs more because of brand rubes. i'm not defending microsoft but the user-case for macs is quite a bit narrower
Apparently putting all your resources in the copilot basket doesn't work out well for other products.
My work computer has a copilot button on the keyboard...aging about as well as the Rdio button on my Roku remote.
In the future, they'll have a billion instances of copilot subscribed to game pass at $100/month. The copilot instances will do mundane office tasks to make the money needed to subscribe. It's foolproof!
and the oceans will steadily simmer