Xbox Co-Founder Calls Game Pass Price Hike A “Betrayal’
Longtime Xbox devotees have recently seen several former exclusive games go to PlayStation 5, while Microsoft has raised prices on Game Pass and Xbox consoles in the US. Now, one of Xbox’s original team members, Laura Fryer, is calling out her former employer and describing the price increases as a “betrayal” of the trust that gamers placed in them.
“With this latest increase to Game Pass, Xbox threw away one of their last advantages,” said Fryer in her latest YouTube video. “They were the best deal in gaming… With these price hikes, it feels like a betrayal, like greed over gaming… I recognize that this Xbox console generation isn’t over yet, it’s almost certainly going to be remembered first and foremost for Microsoft’s greed.”
Fryer went on to recap the two hardware price increases this generation, three separate Game Pass price increases, more expensive games, massive layoffs, and multiple studio layoffs.
