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/AbeShrewMice 13h ago

15 hours per month for the highest subscription is absolutely laughable. I love it when corporate execs show that they don’t know a damn thing about the shit they sell.

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u/Revolution-SixFour 12h ago

They are just getting fucked by AI. Five years ago cloud gaming was just renting some GPUs in the cloud, then AI made GPUs in the cloud more expensive than gold.

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u/Askolei 3h ago

It does look like them killing off the service in everything but name.

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u/tacobellrefugee 11h ago

for just 30 minutes a day, you too can pay 75 cents a day

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u/Amberawesome24 4h ago

The person who said 15 hours a month has never picked up a controller in their damn life