Xbox caught LYING about Game Pass and NEW LEAKS are EXTRA BAD!

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Xbox has just revealed some incredibly unpopular changes to Game Pass. The highest Ultimate tier is getting a 50 percent price increase, now setting subscribers back $29.99/£22.99 a month. The shock reveal has many players racing to cancel their Game Pass subscriptions before their next payment is due, but they're running into some problems.

As multiple users are sharing online - and as we have experienced ourselves - the page to cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription keeps crashing. Even if you can get onto the page, I've found that it's running pretty slowly, suggesting that there are a whole lot of subscribers who are leaving Game Pass behind in light of today's news. Microsoft Quietly Removes Xbox Game Pass DLC Discounts
It's safe to say that yesterday's Game Pass changes haven't exactly gone down well with Xbox fans, particularly that huge price increase for Ultimate subscribers - and now we've spotted some Microsoft exec quotes that dropped alongside those changes, including a mention that the team is "listening to the feedback of players" moving forward.

In a briefing with The Verge, director of gaming and platform communications at Microsoft, Dustin Blackwell, said that price bumps "are never fun" - adding that the team is doing work to bring more value to each Xbox Game Pass tier alongside these increases. Here's what Blackwell said on that:
Following the Game Pass price hike, players noticed that the 10% discount on DLCs is gone. One more perk quietly stripped away as backlash over rising costs continues. Verge: Microsoft is getting ready to announce free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads, currently in internal testing for 1 hour sessions with up to 5 hours free a month.

Ad-supported version will include streaming some games you own, eligible Free Play Days titles, Xbox Retro Classics. Preroll ads are around two minutes before a game