Xbox CEO Wants To Lower Game Pass Prices?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.14.26

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3:43We couldn't do this without our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm twining. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have five stories today. A Baker's Dozen! Oh, that was good. Kevin's been killing it with the Baker's Dozen. Yeah. He's been on a new level. Good job, Kevin. story number one Xbox Game Pass quote has become too expensive says Microsoft's new gaming chief in leaked memo this comes from Tom Warren at The Verge Microsoft's new Xbox chief Asha Sharma has signaled that Xbox Game Pass pricing is about to change in an internal memo to Xbox employees obtained by The Verge Sharma admits that Game Pass has become too expensive for players and that Microsoft needs a better value equation Game Pass is central to gaming value on Xbox.

4:36It's also clear that the current model isn't the final one, says Sharma. Short-term Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long-term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system, which will take time to test and learn around. Microsoft hiked the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to$30 per month last year, a massive 50 % hike. The company tried to justify the price hike with a variety of upgrades across all of its Xbox Game Pass tiers, but the cost increase has clearly taken its toll on Game Pass. I understand that part of the cost increase for Game Pass was down to Microsoft's decision to add Call of Duty into the subscription service.

5:11I reported nearly two years ago that Microsoft had been debating whether to put new releases of COD into Game Pass, with concerns from some at the company at the time that the revenue generated from typical COD sales would be undermined by Game Pass. Microsoft went on to add Call of Duty to Game Pass in the summer of 2024. Over the weekend, Windows Central's Jez Corden hinted that Microsoft might be about to take Call of Duty out of Game Pass. If they take Call of Duty out of Game Pass this year, which is a possibility from what I've heard, I think it will kind of reveal some of the cracks in the strategy, possibly, Corden said on the XP2 Plus One podcast.

5:46Sharma references the online chatter about rumors of Microsoft changing Game Pass pricing and says she'll go deeper with Xbox employees next week.

5:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Interesting. Yeah. Going deeper with the Xbox employees next week. man a lot of talking i mean from all the talking we've heard from asha in the last couple months i think we're due for a lot of change like it sounds i think change is coming i think to the quote from cordon right like i think call duty is going to be taken out of game pass i think that's gonna be one of the key ways they lower the price of game pass because i think they have to lower the price of game pass i saw within the last uh day or so too there are rumors of them considering going back to exclusive as well i think all that stuff is probably gonna happen i think we're very doubtful when this first happened as far as asha sharma coming in as ceo coming from the ai team all this stuff if you're really i think one of the bigger problems of xbox both this generation but even going back to the beginning of xbox one it has been just a lack of commitment to a vision when we're when we've been talking about the whole play anywhere xbox game Game Pass is more about the ecosystem than it is about the box.

6:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I was a believer in that because if you go all the way, if you commit to that vision, I think there's a way to make it work because you're looking at the numbers of the player base as opposed to the numbers of boxes sold. Obviously, we're in a place where that didn't work out for them, right? And I think part of that just comes to a lack of commitment and a lack of execution from the game side and how that coincides with the Xbox Game Pass side. if you're going to revert if you're going to go hey we want to quote unquote get back to what xbox was get back to the greatness of xbox not to invoke another make something great type slogan but if we're going to get back to making xbox great you have to commit all the way and so if that is we want it to be about selling the box we want the box to be the central place you go to play xbox and all this shit all right like take take call duty out of game pass let's get back to exclusives you got to do the whole thing yeah i mean absolutely and like you're you're the point about the vision that is the thing right it's like there has to be a commitment to the vision full force all the way through but the commitment to the vision can't just be the vision it also needs to be backed up by amazing games and i think that that is the big the biggest problem that xbox had over the last 10 years is there was never a point that they had both they didn't have the games and the vision firing on all cylinders because the moment they started getting the games I feel like the vision started getting a lot of holes poked in it because of Microsoft above, because of not even necessarily the bad decision.

8:26Well, this in some ways is a bad decision for Microsoft, but it's not so much even the like, hey, we're focusing on AI or hey, we're focusing on this. Like every merger or every acquisition that they had meant that when they got Bethesda, when they got Activision, there was distractions. There was literal lawsuits. They were Phil Spencer. Sarah bond had to be in court instead of working on the vision of the games that they had, right. With all the Activision stuff, when it came to Bethesda, having to figure out how are we going to, um, spend our time reorganizing the team structure, right? What does it look like when we have this many studios under us?

9:03Can one person kind of oversee the games or does Bethesda do their own thing? And do we do our own thing and all that, all of that stuff is distracting from actually producing the product and committing to the vision right and it's like i you can always see it at companies when it's like you know a company is in a bad place when they just waste time like reorganizing seating charts every year you know what i mean it's like that means there are people there that are wasting time not doing what they should be doing justifying their jobs and all of that stuff you add that to the massive level that microsoft and xbox had to do all that stuff because they didn't have a choice when you acquire thousands of new employees you need structure for that and when you're putting out some great games while also having to deal with all that you can't commit to this vision you have so where we're at now we have this potential lineup and god damn it i'm not even joking about this the dominoes hot all down but like real talk we have so much potential here forza horizon 6 fable gears e-day halo to some extent it's like there are there's potential for awesome stuff in addition to all the smaller titles all these the partner showcases that they're doing like we're about to get a new metro game uh we're about to get this mouse pi for hire like these partnerships that are very smart on the smaller level all the way up to big big third party stuff like there's a lot of good juice going on with xbox but and the 25 year anniversary and a new leader that is clearly listening clearly talking at what point is that going to turn into like something we care about It's scary.

10:37It's kind of, it's a,

10:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's a really weird place because Asha Sharma, again, when this whole thing happens of Phil's retiring, Sarah bond is leaving. Asha's coming in. She came from this, whatever, whatever. And we're filled with so much skepticism about it. She's in a weird way has said so many of the right things. And I'm kind of waiting for her. I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe of like, all right, but where's all the bad shit that we know is. I mean, it honestly feels like she's listening to podcasts. It's honestly feels like she's listening to the people that are talking and pointing out the criticism, and she's trying to address it.

11:09Will she have the power to? Will she have the support to? That is still to be seen. When we're talking about this story, though, we're talking about the Game Pass and the pricing and her realizing or pointing out that the value's not there. The clear answer is just get rid of Call of Duty from Game Pass. Yeah. That is the biggest pain point, I think, that forces the price of Game Pass to be that much higher because of the amount of money that they're clearly losing from selling Call of Duty. Yeah. Having said that, I've said this since day one, Game Pass devalues video games. And I think that there's no putting the genie back in the bottle with a lot of this stuff.

11:46Like, I don't know that we're going to get to a point that this ever fully makes sense. And people disagree with me on this. And I understand that to the consumer, it's an amazing value. I do think that it's detrimental to the industry overall. And I've been saying that for years. I'm going to continue to say it because look where we're at.

12:02Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Yeah. Game Pass feels like it's been an experiment of, hey, we have an idea of what we can do with video games because we see other media. We see how movies work. We see how music works. And we see how expensive video games are becoming to make, how expensive they're going to be to buy. And we want to be ahead of the curve as far as giving people the accessibility to be able to play games, play new games and be in the ecosystem when we see everything else going up in price. and in a way they were able to make it happen for a while but when game pass becomes 30 a month then it starts to be a thing of all right what is this for anymore you know what i mean like i think it was me and greg or me and somebody else is going we're going back and forth on this of like the value of i'm paying 30 a month for this thing and even you can say you can say all day every day hey when you look at the value of what you get out of game pass that's more than worth it right I'm paying$30.

12:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'm getting all these games. I'm getting new games. And I'm like, that's very valid. And that's very true. Are people playing those games? Are people, do people care about ownership of those games as well? When I'm paying$30 for something, like, I almost have to play games as a full-time job to get that value back. You know what I mean? I'm committing to playing games, playing those new games every single month to get that value back. And people have to ask themselves, am I willing to spend that? And I think the arithmetic doesn't math out in that way, especially with Call of Duty in the equation and the money that you're talking about losing there.

13:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think we're in the place, in the experiment, where we have to go, all right, we went all the way with it. Now, how do we moderate? And how do we get back to the middle with it? Where it is, maybe we take Call of Duty out of Game Pass. Honestly, maybe we take some of our first-party games out of Game Pass, but still keep some other ones, right? Like, I think Killen works for a Game Pass. Do you put, and I think they'll put Gears, of course, this year on Game Pass, but do you continue? to put a gears on game pass going forward or say that you say of course yeah but like i think that's another going back to our initial conversation here about the vision and the games where this is the time if you're gonna make these calls if you're gonna make these changes it kind of has to be now with the games because once these games come out what's the next game like there's gonna be but it's like this is the xbox year for like the big brand ip like the titles and i mean again I understand it's probably too late to make these games all exclusive to Xbox.

14:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Well, yeah, for sure too late for that. I think it's too late for Game Pass because you've already, I imagine you've already announced all these games is coming to Game Pass. I think you get so much blowback from the audience to then go, hey, these aren't coming to Game Pass anymore. You have to buy them. But having said that, they also announced that every first party game is going to be day and date on Game Pass. Yeah. And Call of Duty is one. So if they were to change that, like they're going back on what they've said. I'm not saying they should do this. I think that we're already in this messy spot of it's, I think, impossible to commit to the vision with the games right now.

14:57And maybe you're committing the vision for the next generation. We're starting with Project Helix.

15:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think that's the thing. I think this year is the Xbox anniversary year. Don't have unnecessary bad press. I think you can get away with saying Call of Duty is not coming to Game Pass. Because I think to some extent the audience probably understands, even though you are going back on your word on that. I think this would be the last hurrah of every single first party Xbox game is coming out to game pass I think this year is the year to commit to that and then afterwards and maybe go transitioning into Helix you go hey not every single one like we are we're gonna have some like maybe some of those if you're gonna tear it up right the tier two games are coming to game pass the tier one games the the even for the Forza Horizons the gears the fables if fable is what I imagine it to be right like those games you got to buy them because we believe in these games so much and these are the games that are going to drive revenue for us are going to like be the bangers we need those bangers to make you go damn xbox is killing it but you also gotta you gotta balance what the value is of this service that you have with the things are you able to do it and i just don't think you can have both yeah yeah gonna be really interesting and again the fact that there is so much talk happening and the fact that we are now seeing this the next week they're going to go deeper with xbox employees like this is an active conversation there will be some change what will it be how hard will they commit i don't know but with the summer showcase coming up in june yeah i imagine we're going to start getting answers there right one more thing i think if you couple the idea of hey college duty is not coming to game pass but we're lowering the price down to let's say 20 i think that goes smoothly i think you can get away with that yeah and i think the audience would actually be pretty excited about that yeah but that's the thing is like get away with it definitely yeah audience being excited about it sure will that result in enough revenue to make this all worth it i don't think so no i don't think so and that's the biggest problem with all of this but um again i am the most hopeful for this lineup of xbox content for a year maybe ever like maybe ever yeah i mean and it's a lot of that's riding off of forza horizon 6 but that's a guarantee sure and i guess like when i'm thinking of like xbox's lineup i it's the last 10 years haven't had the most consistent years and so i'm trying to think of like another year that's been as exciting for me as lineup and maybe did hell divers and starfield come out the same year or what did was held divers the year after starfield because if you would ask me at the beginning of that year i would have been like oh this is gonna be a banger year and then i didn't really like either of those games but yeah that is true but i guess last year was also pretty sick we don't know if the games are good but there's never been a year that we got all of the big xbox ips in one year yeah so like that alone is like wow for sure i guess maybe i'm you know what you're right maybe i'm thinking of halo being what i consider the tent pool number one xbox ip even though i don't know if that's true anymore but me looking at halo is that it being halo campaign evolved and not like the next step in halo kind of brings that down for me yeah even with gears i'm excited because this will be my first for full gears game right like i'm hyped to get into this i think it being a prequel almost has me like is this as exciting as if it were like the next entry i think i think it is actually you think so like i think yeah like um i'm not the biggest gears fan of the world but i really do love the gears games uh and the they're going back to the characters people love right like that's the thing and also i think it being a prequel it's a good jump on point for for new people or you're not gonna be super lost on oh man i don't know all the connections of all the characters and everything but um yeah i'm hopeful for the year we'll see i'm very excited about what this summer showcase looks like for xbox and whatever they end up doing for the 25th anniversary if there is an event that they do or oh yeah they're doing the fan fest yeah but i wonder if there's like uh isn't that a bunch of fan fest though there's a bunch of fans yeah but i wonder if there's gonna be like uh you don't need to go anywhere we can just watch it from home type ah yeah state of the union thing of like we are xbox here we are here's the rock i'm surprised they don't here's the i'm surprised they don't do the xos anymore because they brought that back for one or two years with like xo i want to say xo 19 yeah that seemed like it's what you're talking about there yeah but maybe that's just we don't want to go that level when we have our other showcases and stuff yeah i think they also have 10 million dev teams now yeah so there's a lot to talk about but again they've been i think really kind of killing it with their different formats of the showcases the inside xbox things that they've been doing like the quality of them is up or down but it's like they found a flow they found a very good xbox developer directs at the beginning of the year are usually a banger the xbox showcases have been fantastic them doing a additional here's focusing it on one game afterwards it's going to be our big fall game those have been killer i think between those things of course the xbox uh was it the indie xbox or the third party xbox there was an xbox thing recently where i don't know if we liked it as much if i or maybe maybe we did like it chat what was the recent xbox thing that we watched because i remember y 'all didn't like that we we didn't like y 'all hated it okay and i thought y 'all were like like i couldn't believe how much y 'all oh how down we were we're on it yeah i don't think it was that amazing you know that's right because i remember being i was high on the xbox developer direct and then yes this latest thing i was in there i forgot what it was but um we got a couple super chats i want to get to here uh sol says as long as pc doesn't get shafted from exclusives i don't care but if both playstation xbox choose to say no to pc ports that's trash and xbox will not pull off the pc no they're not that's the whole we know that they're turning into a pc yeah so that i wouldn't worry there also kevin on a few if you see this twitch is down just he's on it i saw him running out there um let's see claw master says i agree that game pass is bad for the industry but in this economy right now it's what's keeping gamers in the xbox ecosystem to play their games i i don't know i i understand yes that makes sense like when you say it but it's just like i just don't believe a lot of this and i i just i more than anything i stand by when you devalue your product that significantly and it the costs of making it are going up and up and up that's not sustainable that's not how this works yeah i think it'll only do a good job of keeping people who can't afford those games um in is if they lower the price of game pass like at 30 a month that's just crazy if you bring that down to an affordable price i think that's good for everybody and you got to make the choices to do that in order to make that sustainable and it's just tough though because like all the arguments being made here it's just like you look at subscription services across any media they're all going up it seems monthly it's like we just youtube premium just went up two dollars spotify just went up what three dollars netflix just went up again yeah just went up again i stopped looking at the emails because they scare me now there's it's terrifying i am playing i'm playing like a um a like route like um streaming service roulette basically where for lord of the rings i realized for doing that that interview i realized that i didn't have hbo and so i went and was like all right what am i subscribed to and i canceled i forget which ones i think i still had paramount plus and i was like what am i doing and then i canceled apple because i'm like well severance is offseason um uh pluribus is offseason let me cancel apple and then reallocate that yeah to yeah the other to hbo that's how i gotta live now yeah it is um amazing spider dan says agree if you eliminate game pass to add value to games and make people play games they buy then you risk major blowback and boycotts from gamers who have used it for a decade now xbox equals game pass to many yeah this is the problem that they've created because they didn't only commit yeah um yelsing says if they remove first party games what makes them any better than playstation plus extra which is the equivalent of 15 ish a month yeah it's not that is no i think you just have to have a better catalog is what it is right totally um and we also need to remember that game pass came out was invented at a time when the big xbox games coming up were crackdown three yeah it's not you know what i mean exactly it was a different space for things so uh now that they have all that stuff hey no more first party games like it makes sense it will people will be upset but it's the move.

23:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think there's a marketing way to do it. People will be upset. You're right about everything. I think there's a way. You might almost have to add a new type of showcase. The Game Pass showcase. And be like, yo, this is why Game Pass is still... And you have some first party games in there. And like, you gotta make it a banger showcase. Yeah. If you really wanna like continue to push Game Pass the way that it is. But I just think you might have to de-emphasize it if you really care about the boxes and if you really wanna get back to what Xbox was. Yeah. Yeah. Competing in the console space. If they want to do that, you've got to do that.

24:03You've got to play that game. Or I have another idea. What if we just add more tiers? Oh, God. More tiers. Oh, God. I can't do more tiers. Let's get to story number two. Bloodborne video game. Getting an R-rated animated movie adaptation from Sony. This comes from Brent Lang at Variety. PlayStation's Bloodborne video games being developed into an R-rated animated feature for Sony Pictures that the studio says will embrace the carnage that made the game so popular. Sanford Panitch, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, promised during the studio's CinemaCon presentation that the long-rumored film will be very true to the gory spirit of Bloodborne, which follows a traveler who journeys into a gothic city full of nightmarish creatures.

24:43Bloodborne was developed by FromSoftware and published... You guys fucking know that stuff. The film's co-produced by PlayStation Productions, Lyrical Animation, and creator and gamer Sean McLaughlin, better known by his pseudonym Jacksepticeye. for the uninitiated he's a gamer who spent years in the world of bloodborne whereas digital adventures are tracked by 48 million online fans whoa wild that's crazy and what's also crazy is alana pierce yes a couple weeks ago announced her production company that seems to like help creators produce like youtube creators creators yeah produce video game adaptations he's one of the people right like i think he's one of the people that we're working on something um oh

25:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:interesting but now for this to happen obviously crazy scale it's so funny because i when i read this the first thing i thought of was alana's production company and i was like man it's crazy that playstation or sony is doing the same uh thing over here but also cool like you want people that are passionate about these ip and these projects to be the ones that have the involvement and are able to produce these things because they're able to speak to the fan base hopefully if you get the right people right like i didn't know much about jack jack septic eyes connection to bloodborne but this was announced i saw people posting oh yeah no he's he fucking loves bloodborne and on top of that you know what else he has a lot of money yeah the means and when you have the means to create and you want to and you have a desire to do that you put your money where your mouth is you know what i mean and i say that sitting here in front of a giant video wall yeah like we we know that it's like when you love something and care about it you can create something crazy and it could pay off like high risk high reward but it's like that is what's happening here and he's co-producing this movie i want to shout out two things one the fact that if you're going to make a bloodborne movie this is the way to do it i think make it an animated feature-length movie is so that's what we want like if you did a live action bloodborne i'd kind of be like all right let's see what this is i mean i'm very interested in that i mean first off let's to say sony animation right now killing it yeah k-pop demon hunters the spider-verse movies yes by the way did you see the images from beyond the spider-verse no i dropped them last night oh you know what i did see those yeah fucking stunning the whole movie is going to be an imax it's going to be like full oh my god this is going to be good but um yeah that right now they're on a hot streak so it's like leaning into that i think is much wiser than the uncharted live action movie right but you are bloodborne guy yeah my question you is if if we assumed that the movie was actually going to be good is animation the call over live action um because bloodborne animation to me doesn't necessarily be like yes that's that's i feel like it's the safer move that's the thing is i think it's safer which gives me more comfort with it i think if you did made a great Bloodborne live action thing.

27:46Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think that could be the coolest shit in the world, but it being animated first gives me the thing of like, okay, cool. At least Bloodborne is a game filled with fucked up looking creatures and oh, what's his name? Hands? No, that's Elden Ring. Oh. Yeah. What about Hands and Bloodborne? No, they don't really have, no. Elden Ring is all about Hands. Elden Ring is a game that is about Hands. It's in a crazy way. It has a ring in the title. um no bloodborne what's the word i'm looking for the cosmic who's the old author kind of racist like lovecraft lovecraftian yes there's so much lovecraftian like i mean lore but then also visuals and like tentacles and weird shit and stuff coming from the moon eldritch horror eldritch horror going on in bloodborne that i think is easier translated through animation in a way that i feel like could be true to what the source material is um so i'd want to see that version first and then like if we get a little bit more steam for bloodborne and if we seem to do it right that way then i think maybe we take the step to something live action but i'm not craving a live action bloodborne thing i think elden ring is probably more appropriate for the live action thing which they're doing yeah interesting um but yeah this is fucking cool i everything about this is awesome like r-rated animated from this team with producers that care bloodborne it has a new project coming out like i think that's and that's the second thing to talk about that's the second thing is that first of all i said kind of racist for lovecraft but sure very racist i don't know that much about lovecraft so i heard you racist um but the second thing is the fact that they're doing work with bloodborne feels like the door is creaking open because the conversation we were having yeah before is that playstation they don't really want to touch bloodborne because they don't want to upset FromSoft and Miyazaki because they don't want to alter his vision because the rumor has been that when Demon's Souls from Bluepoint came out there was a bit of energy of like alright Miyazaki doesn't really like this because of how it kind of alters that creative vision and how like maybe they do it differently or whatever the conversation was it seems like they didn't like it on their side and so PlayStation maybe has been scared to do some of Bloodborne because they don't want to piss off from software because they value from software can you creak it open that door for Bloodborne with an animated movie can you creak it open more for a remaster or a remake oh yeah that's what I want I mean dude it's happening I guarantee that a Bloodborne some form of remake remaster whatever the hell 60 frames per second Bloodborne that's what it'll be I mean that's all I want it'll be the same year as this movie you think they're putting it out at the same time same year okay yeah who makes it though i mean because let me tell you this uh-huh do you know how many copies of super mario galaxy are going to be sold this year probably a lot yeah yeah probably a fuck ton that's what they want but do you think a bloodborne animated movie is going to do gangbusters like that that's the one thing is this almost feels like it would be more of a niche thing it doesn't matter that niche will buy bloodborne the game honestly i mean yeah that you'll buy it and then And also the amount of people that have played Elden Ring and learned about FromSoft through Elden Ring will buy it.

31:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah, absolutely. All right, let's get to story number three after a word from our sponsors.

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34:43Story number one in my heart. Rockstar Games hack update. This comes from Wesley Yenpool at IGN. Rockstar Games hackers, Shiny Hunters, released the stolen data early, revealing revenue for GTA Online and Red Dead Online. But crucially, no GTA 6 information appears to have leaked online. The stolen data was viewed by GTA Forms user Lexature and reported on by Kotaku. It shows GTA Online allegedly generates much more money than Red Dead Online. Shocking. whoa uh and uh which doesn't come as a big surprise given the difference in support rockstar gives each live service it also shows that ps5 is the platform with the most gta online players and revenue shocking pc lagging behind even the last generation of consoles on both counts yes we have this chart here the is there anything interesting here um the fact that gta 5