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/ZoomZoom_Driver Console 17h ago edited 14h ago

So one side says "you dont own digital games and you can't have a disc."

While the other side says "if you have our digital subscription you can't play free games for more than 15 hours out of the 730 hours every month."

Or 2% of a month. TWO PERCENT.

I loathe this dystopian bullshit hellscape.

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u/QF_Dan 16h ago

Everything is so bleak man.....this industry is so dead

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u/brycejm1991 17h ago

Which is why smaller indie games are prop going to blow up sooner than later, which isn't to say they haven't already.

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u/olkaad 15h ago

Wait, so this monthly hours cap is for the free games only? Does it apply to "owned" or more accurately purchased games too?

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver Console 14h ago

Dont know. They said 'cloud gaming' of which your owned games over the internet IS a kind of cloud gaming...

Only time will tell.

In the meanwhile, I'm looking at gaming laptops so i can pirate even harder.

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u/olkaad 14h ago

From what I can find, it's implied that the hour cap applies also to owned games but it doesn't explicitly say that yet. They say the details on the whole thing will be revealed by November. This sucks.