r/gaming • u/Force_Hammer • 17h ago

Microsoft to impose time limits on Xbox cloud gaming subscribers as costs continue to climb

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-limits.html
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u/Elberik 17h ago

There it is. That's the all-digital future. Regressing to pay-by-the-minute internet.

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u/zilog88 17h ago

Dial-up is dead! Long live the dial-up!

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u/StragoMagus70 16h ago

When will AOL start shipping the CDs again? 10,000 free minutes!!

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u/Solesaver 13h ago

Cloud gaming != digital downloads. They're completely different paradigms and it's a slippery slope fallacy to say one leads to the other.

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u/Elberik 13h ago

It's all still just renting/licensing the games. The end result is that you don't actually own it, you're simply paying a fee to have access to it.

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u/Solesaver 12h ago

It's all just licensing the games. It's the exact same license with physical disks/cartridges. You're not paying a fee to "have access to it." You are buying a license to play the game just like any other copyrighted work.

When you buy a game as a digital download you can download the game. That can be the end of your interaction with the company if you so choose. When you buy a game for cloud gaming or subscribe to a cloud gaming service you are eternally dependent on that company to provide the streaming service. These are completely different paradigms.

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u/The_BooKeeper 4h ago

Soon to be pay by the minute to live- enters Justin Timberlake with his forgotten movie...

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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 16h ago

At least PC has p****. What do Xboxers do?

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u/cahir11 14h ago

At least PC has p****.

You're not a youtuber trying to avoid demonetization, you're allowed to say the word "porn".

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u/Hot_Middle_1379 15h ago

Jork it to Master Chief. Oh wait…