I just bought 12 month of Ultimate on eBay. I always did this in the past, because it's cheaper than buying directly from Microsoft. So far, I made good experience with it.

The way it usually works is, that you get a few codes you need to redeem. I got three codes for 36 month of EA Play and then one code for Ultimate that is supposed to transform the EA Play subscription to 12 month Ultimate. But due to the the price hike, the subscription transformation changed as well and I did not get the 12 month.

I'm now in contact with the seller and he tries to find a solution. I want to have my 12 month Ultimate that he offered for the price. But it also sucks for the seller. Seems like we both didn't know. He basically sold it to cheap. I paid 150€ for 12 month Ultimate and he just now increased the price to 200€.

The new prices are insane! 150€ a year is already my upper limit. I'm not gonna pay 200€ or even more a year. I think, if my new subscription is over, I will not extend it. I like the idea of Game Pass, but that's to much money.

The thing is I really like Game Consoles. I want to play in front of my TV. I wish, Steam would make another Steam Machine with Steam OS. I do want an all in one solution. The last thing I want is a gaming PC. I hope, alternatives to Xbox Consoles and Playstation come up.

I know, I could also use the XBox without GamePass, but I do play online something and it would be nice to get away from subscriptions completly.

The price increase is absurd. I cancelled too, because while I do play quite a bit, this level of corporate greed is completely unjustifiable to me. If rather watch playthroughs of new games on Twitch or YouTube and then buy them a year later on sale than pay this bloody much, eff that.

I'm usually fine with paying more for things I enjoy that are worth it. Like $70 games are just not a big deal to me.

I'm also too lazy to cancel most things. I've ignored Game Pass price hikes before and justified them by thinking of all the games I played without buying.

But this one is just ridiculous. There's no value here, no way for me to justify it. I was enjoying Silksong on Xbox because I didn't have to buy it, but now that I do have to buy it I guess I'll do that on my Switch instead. Replaying it is going to be rough, especially without my Elite controller.

I hope Microsoft gets their shit together, because Xbox has been my favorite game platform for years.

Just cancelled mine. I have barely been doing ~2 games per year, and the cost was low enough for me to not really care about the months I didn't play at all.

But a price increase is the straw.

I already canceled because of the atrocities Microsoft does / is / supports.

It's nice they pulled this nonsense during a steam sale. Cancelled and picked up halo mcc and silksong.

Between the cost of housing and the cost of food, and the fact wages aren't that much better than they were 15 years ago - you'd think they would realize they are asking for the scraps people have left.

I've always just bought games when they're on a good sale, I've never had a game pass type thing. But maybe they just want to squeeze a bit more out of their most loyal customers and they're accepting that it is a dying model.

Just canceled my 4 year old subscription. Can’t wait to hear the complaints from my kid but Netflix is likely next.

EA also further buried the ability to cancel EA accounts, after the announcement they had been sold to the Saudis and Kushner.

I really appreciate this, you just saved me at least $20.

Microsoft’s user experience is awful at every step in a browser. I wanted to like XBox but it’s clear why they’re losing.

I’m doing my part!

I have never had gamepass, it just seemed like a waste honestly

For years I've been warning whoever would listen that XboxGP, much like any other content subscription service owned by a public company would inevitably lead to a massive consumer squeeze. Fortunately it happened before MS managed to metastasise into a monopoly in gaming too. Good riddance.

Now is probably not the best time to sell my xbox.... I bet the market is flooding

Getting users to pay extra for features that should already be included with their overpriced consoles is such a scam.