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/LezDoTheBoogerWooger 17h ago

Wait until "the 15 hours per month are supported by ads. Do you want more? It's 2.99 per hour with ads, 3.99 without ads! PLAY MORE!"

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u/49e-rm 16h ago

PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE

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u/letsgotgoing 17h ago

I guess in the infancy of the all-digital future, I'll buy games from GOG.com to own my digital games without DRM, and, of course, physical versions of retro titles.

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u/PsyOmega PC 16h ago

One day it'll get so bad there'll be roving bands of feral gamers, breaking into corporate offices to steal the last remaining PC's capable of running independent operating systems and local rendering. Sure it'll be intel HD gpu, but everyone will still be playing cs2 and fortnight anyway

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u/jormugandr 14h ago

Make sure you keep good care of your current PC. They're doing all they can to price the average gamer out of PC affordability. Those GOG games won't do much good if you need to spend 5k on a new PC.

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u/JimmyDejesu 17h ago

This is the same situation right? Warning people about a shitty idea (in this case cloud gaming ) and people ignoring it anyway and ruining another part of the hobby

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u/edgiepower 16h ago

Their immediate convenience is more important than their long term convenience

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u/fozzy_bear42 17h ago

They one day the drop the ‘L’ from the motto and say what we’ve all been thinking.

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u/Cachar 15h ago

Currently they don't want you to play more. Microsoft wants to lend OpenAI money, so OpenAI can buy GPU compute from Microsoft. 

I wish I was joking.

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u/LezDoTheBoogerWooger 13h ago

Next Xbox pad will have copilot button in the middle. 

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u/Distorted0 1h ago

You joke but they have already replaced one of the windows keys on laptops with a dedicated copilot key.

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u/jonstarks 16h ago

they just love stepping on rakes

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u/x_Animus_x 16h ago

It directly states in the article they plan to test ad supported streaming.

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u/LilStrug 16h ago

This made me think of the meme video with kid waking up in the middle of the night to the TV ad of the guy asking,’ hey punk, wanna talk some shit? Call me now, let’s start some shit.‘

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u/TwoMoreMinutes 16h ago

“DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE”

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u/sithelephant 17h ago

dlss6, and this time it's compulsory. Product placement.