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/scumper008 17h ago

Getting only 15 hours a month to play games is a joke.

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u/Booldye 17h ago

Hey, the way we're headed, you're expected to be in the saltmines, slaving away for the technofascist dictators most of your waking hours, so 15h/month will be more than enough.

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u/MadeByTango 16h ago

And then with your time off you have to see ads at every screen and open space so they can keep making money off of you even when you're not working.

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u/Cog_HS 13h ago

There was a Black Mirror episode about this.

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u/Green_Insect_6455 12h ago

Almost like the show is inspired by real life...in a way...mirroring it...

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u/Cog_HS 11h ago

Big if true

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u/FadedVictor 2h ago

Small if false

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u/lars03 16h ago

Nah, they won't even bother to show us ads because we will be all broke.

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u/ProudUSAgunOwner 14h ago

That’s a perk given by them for free! How gracious (ad free life is normally $299.99 yearly)

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u/STRYKER3008 10h ago

The scene in altered carbon is coming one day. The guy is a fresh outta the tubes clone and installs a ubiquitous neural ink type thing to connect to future internet™ by himself. He the nanosecond he does he's bombarded by ads, so much so he's totally incapacitated from the pure stimulus to every sense even tho he's like a superhuman pro max version of clones. His handler saves him by installing ad blockers and berates him for connecting to the net without one haha

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u/kaptainkooleio 17h ago

What, you don’t enjoy playing your favorite games for only 30 minutes a day?

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u/Apexnanoman 15h ago

" Oh you want to do a raid that may take hours to complete?.....fuck you. Pay me.'

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u/danbrochill17 15h ago

Less time gaming means more time you can spend rotting your brain talking to an AI chatbot

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u/kaptainkooleio 14h ago

What are you taking about? She’s not an AI chat bot, course Misugi-Chan is real! SHE’S REAL

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u/danbrochill17 13h ago

You have reached your token limit, please purchase more credits to continue chatting with Misugi-Chan

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u/HUNplaymore 15h ago

Just enough for my Fortnite dailies without giving a cent to Microsoft! Win-win!

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u/NecroNile 16h ago

That's not even counting that the user has to pay $23 for the privilege of 15 hours a month.

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u/PeteCampbellisaG 16h ago

They've managed to turn gaming into a 1-900 number.

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u/BarelyScratched 16h ago edited 16h ago

Oh man. Imagine a future with streaming-only consoles that lock how many hours you can play each month behind various payment tiers.

Nightmare fuel.

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u/LOLSteelBullet 16h ago

Well 15 hours to play them without downloading them

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u/Theworden1111 16h ago

Sure. But game time is my relaxation time. Better not leave the game open while I grab the pizza from the oven, the 5 minutes it takes comes directly out of my allowance hours.

And forget bathroom breaks, I'm going to need one of those buckets from south park.

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u/EnvironmentalRun1671 16h ago

You'd think for 23 € you'd at least get 23 hours so 1 € = 1 hour of gameplay lol.

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u/RDGOAMS 16h ago

feels like my mom when i was kid, she used to say "you can play for 30min tonight before going to bed"

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u/FullaLead 15h ago

I can easily do that in a weekend if I have nothing going on.

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u/KevinIsADork 8h ago

Streaming them, you can still download them and play without any time limits as long as they stay on gamepass. 

This isnt a defense of them, but the cloud gaming feature has always been pretty bad on Xbox gamepass, why anyone would even play a game via the cloud while it lags and looks terrible for 15 hours when they could download it in 5 minutes is illogical. If anything, I'm surprised they dont just get rid of the streaming feature all together. 

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u/steakanabake 5h ago

though itll backfire which is nice for us because people instead will go elsewhere to do gaming or just give it up (which is less good for gaming overall).