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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] vision@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Like, I don't hate the pricing if it were not IN ADDITION to already paying for Gamepass, where I feel this all goes wrong is the fact you'd now effectively be paying to pause the game for a bathroom break or whatever and that just feels wrong.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also paying to wait for the game to start.

Would also be a hell of an incentive for games to fill games with useless filler bullshit that takes time, just because.

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

Prepare for more 20 minute unskippable cutscenes.