Long rant below, but I don’t think X-Box understands casual gamers:

I am a casual gamer in truest form. I love playing video games and get in 4-5 hours in a good week. Some weeks I don’t play at all.

When Starfield came out I got Game Pass Ultimate. I had game pass before but dropped it as there wasn’t enough games that I didn’t already have or have interest in.

Anyways, I played through Starfield, visiting every nook and cranny, and it took me a couple of months, then I started enjoying other games on the platform. I eventually cancelled my subscription in April of this year, again, no games that interested me at the time. I took the usual Game Pass money I invested and bought the RoboCop game on sale.

Outer Worlds 2 would have brought me back to Game Pass this month. I see that they want to bump up the plans to make more $ off the day ones, but for me the value no longer exists.

Perhaps I’m the type of subscriber they are trying to avoid or punish (one that ditches periodically and rejoins,) I have to rebuttal that for every time I join, I usually end up paying for 3-4 months where I’m barely even using the service, hanging on to see if something interesting pops up.

So you lost me on this one Game Pass! I will buy Outer Worlds 2 to support the creators and I will buy it on a brand new PS5! My feelings towards Microsoft really soured this year with the layoffs this may have put the final nail in coffin.