Microsoft to place limits on XBOX Cloud Gaming
Game Pass Ultimate: 15 hours
Game Pass Premium: 10 hours
Game Pass Essential: 5 hours
What a total joke
news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-changes/
Upcoming Changes to XBOX Cloud Gaming
Beginning in November, we’re changing how cloud gaming is included with XBOX Game Pass.Joe Skrebels, XBOX Wire Editor-in-Chief (XBOX Wire)
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •5 hours per day, well not good, not bad... *opens article* 5 hours... per... MONTH!!!???
what are they smoking? 🙈
EDIT: most surely the rest of the time the GPUs will be used for AI tasks...
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Love logging into game pass for my once weekly 1 hour session of Stardew Valley
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •10 hours isn't even enough for a damn tutorial nowadays, let alone 5.
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5gbps/700mbps for~ €24, 10gbps/1gbps ~€50, unmetered
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„We’re introducing this model because the cost of providing cloud gaming grows as more people use it and play for longer.“
Who drove up the cost of cloud stuff?
WHO, MOTHERFUCKER??!
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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •The return of physical media. Stop buying these, stop paying for them, just get one of the old ones.
We can repair them, and there are tons of discs out there.