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/WorthPlease 17h ago

First thing I thought, huh that's gotta be like 15 hours a day right? Couldn't be a week.....holy shit.

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u/yung_dogie 16h ago

15 a day would be reasonable, that's definitely one of those situations where you're thinking "well, this is an edge case that I should've thought of but isn't really what I had in mind" like if someone stayed 8 hrs at a McDonalds constantly refilling one drink cup or something

But 15 for any other typical unit of billing time above per day is pretty damn silly

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u/DidYouPayForWinrar 13h ago

I could see 15 a week being reasonable for some people. Even something like 4 hours per day would be reasonable for a lot of people especially if they let hours roll over.

15 a month though lol?

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u/NooneKnowsIAmBatman 10h ago

15 per week isn't top tier billing quantity. That's a lower tier number, a realistic top tier weekly would be over 40 per week

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u/jormugandr 14h ago

Right. Or people who just leave the cloud stream on 24/7 because they can. I can see wanting a limit so they eventually get disconnected.

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u/Own-Shop9773 44m ago

they plan really should have been 2 hour per day for lite users , 4 hours per day for medium and maybe 8 hours per day for heavy and 15 for ultra.. or make it lower but rolling 7 days or something more reasoable than 15 hours a month.. the age of usage anxiety!!

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u/shankartz 15h ago

Who's gaming 15 hours a day?

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u/WorthPlease 14h ago

I was thinking it was a weird case where people were sharing an Xbox and between them using it all day and night

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u/ShaoKoonce 7h ago

My days off. At least 15 minimum with meals and training in-between.

If I had a family, it would be much different.

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u/shankartz 5h ago

You should get more sleep.

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u/ShaoKoonce 5h ago

I only sleep four hours a day. The only time I sleep longer is when I drink. I don't drink anymore. But then again, being autistic will keep me hyperfixated on anything I am doing. Only social interaction and going out will exhaust me prematurely.

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u/Zalvren 13h ago

I mean 15 hours a day would be a useless limit, might as well not have one, the amount of people that pass that is basically so small that it doesn't matter