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

[u/Force_Hammer]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-cloud-limits.html

[u/noahcallaway-wa]

Or, if it doesn't have aggressive idle detection, that 5 hours/month gets eaten up pretty quick with just a few of "I put down the controller because of a crying baby and didn't come back for a bit".

[u/nohumanape → u/noahcallaway-wa]

True. I didn't even think of that.

[u/Siphyre → u/noahcallaway-wa]

Or even just falling asleep while playing. It gets left on the entire night running in circles and bam, no more time.

[u/Dbrise → u/noahcallaway-wa]

And what about time spent in a lobby if you play fps games, sometimes it takes forever to find a game

[u/scrandlle → u/noahcallaway-wa]

It always has. It's like four minutes of inaction until you get a popup asking if you're still there and like a minute after that it disconnects you.