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2:14Blessing Adeoye Jr.:today's stories include microsoft is revamping xbox game pass ubisoft and tencent form a new subsidiary and silent hill remake has been confirmed we'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily

2:39Blessing Adeoye Jr.:yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for wednesday october 1st 2025 i'm one of your hosts blessing adiel a junior join me is the nitro rifle andy cortez i don't like the way time is moving plus you don't like that it's october it's spooky season already it's too quick like i like i haven't had a chance to breathe this damn year dude i feel it well how do you feel about this spooky season i know you don't like spooky things in general you don't like as a kid i was always the one that was like i fucking pray to god that and it's something i could have just looked for like i could have just flipped the calendar towards in the future but it would be like march or april and i'd be like man i really hope halloween is on a weekday because i don't wanted to be on a weekend yeah thus opening me up for the possibility to go to a haunted house no thank you yeah yeah i want it to be on the lamest day possible i mean i got still like haunted houses not on halloween though yeah but like it's a school night i'm very aware of that it's just like on a school night i can't i mean i got good news for you this year it's on a friday oh i guess that might be a fun day though yeah friday is maybe the funnest day that's when i have midterms oh no no it's tough yeah saturday what about what about you and your uh and spooky season i like spooky season yeah i mean i i think for me when i think back to the nostalgia of it it's more so i associate it with school there's something going on in the background y 'all there's some god it's gonna fall um i associate it jesus christ he's struggling um i associated with being back in school homecoming yeah midterms homework all that stuff i like kind of lump it all together with just the overall holiday season it's the start of the holidays which i like but also yeah i feel like okay well i'm back in school these are turning orange what's even worse right now is it's just like the warm month yeah it's oh and san francisco yeah this is or some september october it's the warmer month and it sucks so bad it's and again by you know but you know the rules if it's you know 71 outside it's 85 inside and i'm on the top floor of my building and like when i tell you heat for sure rises i'm in there and i'm just like they were like when the scientists figured that one out they're all like yo ring the bell let everybody know they motherfucking rises they were on i just be in my bed just like laying there and that stuff we don't really have ac and like a lot of uh residential buildings my building doesn't have ac and so i'm just laying there with the windows open just praying to god i just i don't pass out from like heat exhaustion i used to uh i used to date a girl here in san francisco as many years ago and when she her apartment regardless of the temperature that damn radiator was turning on doesn't matter how hot it is doesn't matter how cold it is every day it would turn on and in the hottest of months at one point like we finagled like a wall to to stop the radiator like we made a wall out of like cardboard boxes to kind of like shield us from it and we had it pointed to the window so like the radiator heat would go outside It was a disaster, dude.

5:52It was awful. And I'd be like, surely there's a way. And they're like, no, that's just the apartment. That's just how it is.

5:57Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. Greg moved the big shark that we have in the back of the studio onto the set and then left. I thought he would say something. I thought he would turn it into a bit or something. He just moved it onto the studio. Add to the theme, you know. The Halloween theme. I get it. Shark week. I feel it. We should get into the news. We've got a lot of news to talk about. Because remember, this is kind of Funny Games Daily. each and every week they will run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on youtube twitch and on podcast services around the globe if you love what we do support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon youtube spotify and apple podcasts to get all of our shows ad free watch us record them live and get a daily exclusive show for a chance to be a part of the show some of your thoughts and opinions as youtube super chats as we go some housekeeping for you monday october 6th is kfgd 2000 that's going to include three hours of shenanigans i've been working on the doc for it it's gonna be a fun time you're gonna want to tune in i've been working on a graphic package for the last two years last two years roger's been working on a lot of stuff for it too a lot of graphics going on for kfgd 2000 also greg miller is now back on the set i forgot we had this in the office oh we had this we have a name for this it's a scary doll for the audio listener yeah remember when we would move her around to make it look like she moved on her own to freak out gary you know actually it completes because i was feeling off-centered yeah dark now it feels a bit more balanced out i don't like that the doll is behind me though i would prefer the shark on my side i don't like i don't like it i don't like the framing right there right behind you you see that framing oh god terrifying i don't like that at all uh some housekeeping some more housekeeping for you remember we're an 11 person business all about live talk shows so today after kftd you're gonna get you're gonna get games cast which is greg and paris's fallout 76 preview and then after that is andy starting ghost of yote for the first time on stream if you're a kind of funny member today's gregway is 15 minutes on if we'll be ever too old for games thank you to our patreon producers carl jacobs omega buster and delaney the psalm twining today brought to you by kind of funny games daily episode 2000 and our new merch but we'll tell you about that later 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 starting with our number one microsoft revamps xbox game pass plans and hikes ultimate to 30 dollars a month i'm gonna be pulling from tom warren at the verge that truly is scary that's a start to the spooky season yeah it's a terrifying way to start the month um and i believe barrett i believe we have a special guest for this one is that true i have not been notified by anything about that well on the calendar it says paris might be joining us so maybe you look out for paris i thought you would have been uh told about that my bad i should have told i should have checked up on that you gotta pull the snow bike mic to kevin and go i thought you would have thought you would have been on top of it no i'm not gonna ship i can't be on top of something if nobody communicates no i'm gonna ship blame to greg miller because i think greg put on the calendar uh i thought you would have known about it hopping into the article uh while we see if baird's able to figure that out uh microsoft is raising the price of its xbox game pass ultimate subscription again and rebranding some of its xbox game pass plans starting today game pass ultimate will be priced at at$29.99 per month instead of$19.99, a 50 % increase.

9:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Microsoft is attempting to justify the price hike with a variety of upgrades across all of its Xbox Game Pass tiers. I love the wording there. Xbox Game Pass Core is being rebranded to Xbox Game Pass Essential, and the standard plan is now Xbox Game Pass Premium. Quote, what's new for everyone across all three Xbox Game Pass plans is bigger libraries including pc games across each of the plans explains dustin blackwell director of gaming and platform communications at microsoft in a briefing with the verge they continue there is also unlimited cloud gaming which is new to essential and premium subscribers end quote uh from here chat people listening at home uh this article is broken down into three different segments talking about the three different tiers so let's start off with the most expensive one and the big change here you got xbox game pass physical tears from crying physical tears uh xbox game pass ultimate is moving from$19.99 a month to$29.99 a month which is a surprising$10 increase while microsoft increased the price of game pass ultimate last year without improving the subscription it's adding a bunch of improvements this time around quote game pass ultimate will now include access to more than 400 titles globally this includes the majority of our partners who want to continue to bring their future games to xbox game pass blackwell explains microsoft is adding 45 games to game pass ultimate today alone including hogwarts legacy a variety of assassin's creed titles and many more ubisoft games quote we're also now giving access to more than 75 day one releases each year blackwell says quote that's a 50 increase over the day one titles we provided last year end quote ubisoft plus classics is also now part of game pass ultimate a perk that provides access to a selection of ubisoft games across console, PC, and cloud.

11:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:On November 18th, Fortnite crew will also be part of Ultimate, which gives subscribers the Fortnite Battle Pass, 1 ,000 V-Bucks each month, and more. Xbox Cloud Gaming is also coming out of beta and getting 1440p resolution support and bitrate improvements for certain games on select devices. These cloud improvements are exclusive to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers. Finally, Microsoft is also reworking its rewards program. Ultimate subscribers can now earn up to$100 per year, that's 100 ,000 points, in the store just by playing games. So that's Ultimate. Let's hop down to Premium, formerly Standard.

11:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Game Pass Premium will be priced at the same$14.99 monthly price of the existing Standard's description, but it will now have a bigger library of games to choose from. More than 200 games will be available on both Xbox and PC, giving Game Pass Premium subscribers access to PC games for the first time, including Diablo 4 and Hogwarts Legacy today. Game Pass Premium is also getting unlimited cloud access for the first time, meaning you no longer need a Game Pass Ultimate sub to get access to Xbox cloud gaming. While Game Pass Premium won't get access to day one launch titles like Game Pass Ultimate does, Microsoft is now making a clear commitment to bring new Xbox published games to this subscription tier, quote, within a year of launch.

12:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:This excludes Call of Duty titles, but every other Microsoft-owned Xbox game will be available. Microsoft is also expanding its in-game pass perks down to the premium subscription instead of being locked to Ultimate. Subscribers will get in-game benefits in games like League of Legends, Call of Duty Warzone, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege X. Premium subscribers will also be able to earn up to$50 a year by playing through Microsoft's award program. Now let's hop down to the lowest tier, Xbox Game Pass Essential. Game Pass Essential will be priced at the same$9.99 monthly price. I like that voice you're putting right there.

13:14It just sounds like you're doing promo. Listen, I'm a professional.

13:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That same$9.99 monthly price of the existing Core subscription, but it will now include more than 50 titles in the library instead of the more than 25 games that were available in Core. You'll also be able to play all of these titles on PC or console, and there's even unlimited cloud access, which was previously only available through the game pass ultimate tier microsoft is also increasing the price of its pc game pass subscription today moving from 11.99 to 16.49 a nearly 40 increase microsoft isn't trying to justify this increase with any added extras for pc players though that's what i got for the article andy cortez what's your immediate reaction to all of this there's just there's a lot of different thoughts and i'm not sure what the best starting off point is but you know usually when you when we see those console prices increase a couple months ago or whatever i think my first thought is okay but they're killing it with game pass and maybe that's like it's not maybe but that does seem to be the sort of avenue forward and then now to get this and to see what everybody is mentioning like this is the second price increase in the last 14 months yeah you know um it's it's certainly not good i don't feel good about this i don't think this is a smart move from microsoft i think this muddies the message even more this reminds me a lot of when playstation went to their online thing which eventually people started to kind of get the hold of what was happening but like the whole 75 plus titles on this one and 50 plus titles and you're getting hogwarts legacy here and also here but you're not getting call of duty here like yeah i think it just really confuses something that for me in my opinion was like this is the surefire way forward for microsoft because we know that hardware probably is not doing great and will continue to not too great especially with prices going up uh recently i don't know man it just it felt like you you know don't try to fix what's not broken not to say that game pass wasn't broken because we know several developers have issues with game pass but i felt like it was the most smooth thing they had going i think it was the best marketing beat that they would pair it and i i think it's a marketing beat that's so good that you would have audience people pairing it right people that aren't even working at microsoft would say the same thing oh it's the best deal in gaming i think that was the biggest thing that you that they could hang their hat on to go hey at the very least if you pay this price you're getting all of these games you're getting all of our first party games, right?

16:19Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You're getting a bunch more games. Just this year, we're talking about Claire Obscure and more games being on Game Pass. A lot of Game of the Year contenders. Silk Song. Silk Song, right? Game of the Year contenders appearing on Game Pass. And it was like, at the end of the day, we still have this going for us. Yes, at the end of the day, whether it was them saying it or people on Twitter saying it, right? Ah, it's the best deal in gaming. I find it tough to imagine people continuing to say that when you're talking about$360 a year. $360 a year. Is that enough to make people go, ah, yeah, I'm still getting the same deal, right?

16:56Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think before you would do the division of like, okay, well, if I bought five games or whatever in a year, Game Pass would make up for that. And if I'm playing more than that, then hey, I'm making my money back. $360 a year for Ultimate, for that tier where you're getting the day one games, i think that becomes a lot more tough to justify uh i have a lot of super chats and a lot of people have a lot to say about this i'll bring in uh norman who writes in and says i don't understand what microsoft's plan is for xbox at this point it seems so uncompetitive as a platform why would you choose it over steam playstation or nintendo are they just mostly a publisher now i got another one from wilfredo who says i've been paying for the highest tier of game pass for as long as i can remember i'm for sure downgrading or just canceling today alex fraser writes in and says 360 bucks a year is just not worth it i'll buy the maybe two xbox games i play per year instead trevor writes in and says probably will downgrade or bottom tier after being at the ultimate tier for a couple of years 30 a month is crazy i also saw reports on twitter that people saying that the cancellation page for xbox game pass is crashing currently oh nice that's always a great sign yeah um yeah the the day one stuff i think is the biggest you know the knife in the back i feel and we have a knife of our own i don't know where i'm going with it that's what they call him the knife but he's muted right now he's muted paris lily welcome to the show oh i'm not muted you can hear me i think i think maybe barrett had you muted just in case just in case but it was probably the discord noise game that was not picking up his laugh there you go uh paris how's it going uh not good not good with these prices yeah i know this um go ahead i was just gonna say I know you're, you're pre-briefed on some of this news.

18:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Like I want to hear your, your thoughts, your perspective on this. Yeah. I mean, I got pre-briefed on it and I'm, I'm hearing the essential tier. I go, Oh yeah. Okay. Good, good value here. Now PC cloud, a part of that same with premium. Okay. This, this sounds pretty good. And then it was like, but now here's the price on ultimate and yikes. It's we're at the, we might be past the red line at 30 bucks a month um i remember just even joke i was jokingly talking with a couple people just a few weeks ago going they're they're going to raise the price on game pass we knew that was going to happen i was thinking two three maybe five bucks a month but to see ultimate jump 10 bucks a month to 30 it you just said it i don't think we can say this is the best value in gaming anymore despite them adding in ubisoft plus classics the fortnite stuff not everyone wants to take advantage of that the whole point of game pass has always excuse me has always been day one their first party lineup you're getting it day one in the service and sure you you're going to pay somewhat of a premium for that but this takes it to a point where now I actually have to think, is this worth it to me?

19:59Is this, am I playing enough games from Xbox game studios and some of the third party indie stuff in here? Am I playing enough of these games every month that it is worth it to me to spend$30 a month on this? I don't, I don't know if I can answer that question. Like I think about my kids again, because they, they use the service a lot. I don't think they play enough games every month that they're going to want to spend$30 a month for ultimate for day one purchases that are coming out there like October this month. Absolutely. You're getting Keeper. You're getting Ninja Gaiden 4. You're getting Outer Worlds 2.

20:33There's a lot of value in it this month. Obviously, November, you're going to call it duty. But what about January, February, March? Are we still getting a consistent amount of quality games coming into the service every month that makes it worth 30? And do I have the time to actually play these amount of games when game pass ultimate first started i think what was it 15 bucks a month or something like that it almost just felt like a no-brainer sure just go get it if you have time to go play these games great now you really just the console prices have gone everything has gone up i have to look at this and go is it worth it to me as a gamer premium there's definitely some value there but you're gonna have to wait a year to get all the you know all the xbox game studio new releases that come out for that right sure you get pc gaming in that now sure you're getting cloud gaming in that but even that i think what is that i guess the price didn't change on that that's saying 15 bucks a month that will be worth it for some people but others it won't you think about the essential tier i don't know if you remember this was probably what four or five years ago at this point where they were going to raise the price of Xbox Live to 120 and everyone balked at it and they reversed course.

21:53Well, here we are. This is essentially what you're doing now, you know, at a baseline. You're paying 120 bucks a month for Xbox Live. And sure, you're getting some games in there and there is some value in there. But this this hobby is just getting too expensive. I don't know any other way to say it. It's getting too expensive for the average casual gamer, especially at the highest tiers now. To your point, you said their website is crashing on people canceling it. That does not surprise me at all because there's sticker shock with this. And now the onus is on Xbox to consistently provide quality titles every month to make$30 worth it.

22:35And God forbid they raised the price even beyond that i don't know who's subscribing to this it almost feels like this is now there to say hey we have it if you want to subscribe to it get day and day games great but we kind of realize most people are not going to do that and they're probably just going to purchase their games moving forward i i don't know who this is for anymore at 30 a month i think i think it would be one thing paris if i had when i look at this the premium tier if i had a whole lot of confidence in what their cloud gaming offerings were in terms of performance and stuff like that but last i tried it it still wasn't very good and so that it just kind of feels like a little thrown in thing like if i was getting the level of quality that i've gotten from that i've gotten from recently uh you know playing over the weekend uh playing hell is us on nvidia geforce now if i was getting that level of performance i would feel a lot better about that being a perk but right now it just kind of feels like an add-in because i don't even think that the quality is necessarily there what um one question i want to ask though can we see do we see in the future and the future i mean the next week the typical xbox or gaming thing of we heard you we fucked up our price increase is only five bucks and then that makes us feel all happy inside and go oh they're listening to us but but really that price increase is still happening yeah you're still getting and was this just was this sticker shock thrown out there so that we feel the benefit from a possible price drop if that does happen because i think ten dollars is so ridiculous yeah it's a Like, yeah, it'd be one thing if if, you know, a ten dollar price increase when I'm thinking of like YouTube TV going from 90 to 100.

24:30That's one thing that doesn't, you know, fuck up my brain a whole lot. But from 20 to 30 bucks is crazy to me. I completely agree. And to answer your question, I don't think so. I don't. I think like the fact that even, you know, there's a blurb about Call of Duty not necessarily showing up in the premium. tier after a year i think when you you start to add up these acquisitions you start to add up big games like like call of duty we know fables coming next year a new halo gear z day all this i just want it like we've been asking this question for the past few years for a while now is game pass sustainable to see this jump that high maybe they're just not seeing the value in at the top tier so that they are making it a very premium tier, something that only the true enthusiast gamers are going to to adopt.

25:24And everyone else will just go back to the way it always has been. We're just going to go buy our games as we want to go play them. I mean, I don't know. Like I said, it's it's big sticker shock for me. Like, ironically enough, PC Game Pass did increase in price as well and i think that's now 16 a month that is probably the the best value out of all of this because you are still getting day-to-day games on pc game pass i know some ubisoft games will also be a part of pc game pass as well so in a way and when you're seeing they're they're looking at this hybrid approach we know the handheld's about to come and it's more a pc than it is a console maybe this is just the way now you know for the for their next gen strategy and maybe the console gamer that wants to take advantage of this you're gonna have to pay a premium whereas a pc gamer is probably going to get more value out of the subscription service and on the flip side luckily all these profits will go towards never closing studios or canceling games like it it's such a backwards fucking world yeah and the arithmetic i think confuses me and it

26:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:makes me go back to outer worlds 2 originally being 80 and how i think maybe that factors into into some of the how you they on their side maybe would have justified this because it goes back to what i was talking about before where at the when game pass was let's say 15 a month i think it was way easier easier to say oh well when i'm paying 60 for video games i only have to have to buy only so many games before i get my return on that investment of game pass now at 30 you're talking about how you're talking about having to buy like a good amount of games right and i and i i think the the call of duty factor in this also is something that perplexes me here because i would have thought that call of duty would have been the linchpin here as far as well people are going to buy it anyway for call of duty you know we're going to get call of duty in i think the problem though is that call of duty even if you have call of duty coming out at 70 dollars 80 dollars whatever it is 30 a month like i i think the a large amount of the people that are here playing call of duty i think there are those a lot of them are hardcore right but also a lot of them i think are those gamers that are buying one or two or three games a year right they're playing call of duty they're playing maybe some free-to-play games maybe fortnight maybe you know what like battle royale whatever they're playing maybe nba 2k right they're playing fifa are those people gonna stick around for a yearly 360 membership or of a thing or are they gonna pay or are they just gonna one buy the game because it's like okay well this is i'm just gonna buy and play this anyway or pay the 30 for a month if you want to pay it play it for just that month it's hard to me it's hard for me to understand the balance of the arithmetic of who is this for like maybe it is the hey this is for our hardest of the hardcore for the people that are gonna play every single xbox first party game for the people that are invested for the other games we have a part of the service for the people that care about the perks they're getting for games like fortnite for the riot stuff etc etc i just feel like that is such a deep bag of people that are invested um that much right like i feel like that is not a sizable sizable sizable audience on the xbox side they may as well have thrown in there like and coupons to red lobster you know what i mean like when i look at that 30 tier like i i'm expecting this massive jump and the offerings there are ubisoft classics ea play included and then fortnite crew and like it's just like where where does this make sense yeah and who thought that these add-ons were you know justified now you're getting a thousand v bucks or like it's so it's such a goofy thing and i think it's messy i think the messaging it's one of those things where when you do a subscription service and you have your subscription tiers i think what you're offering has to be clear and straightforward and you can't be getting into the weeds of things and i read that article that article is so long the one that i just read from tom warren who's breaking down the best that he can in like a it just one article hey these are the changes they're making this is what you're getting with which with each thing you're getting cloud in all of them you're getting you know pc games here and here you're getting um you know you can play call of duty at the highest thing but then at the second lowest thing you're getting the first party games within a year, but not Call of Duty, though.

29:49Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's not included in that. And then at the lowest tier, you're getting 20 whatever. Like, it gets so in the weeds that I think it confuses people and just unentices them, right? I look at this and I'm like, well, now you're listing things that I don't care about. I don't care about the V-Bucks. I don't care about the, I guess I kind of care about the Riot stuff, but plenty of people don't care about the Riot stuff, you know? I don't know. There's a lot here. It's all about the day one stuff to me, Paris. I think that's the biggest, i think that's the biggest mistake on this the thing that hurts my heart the most because this that's where that's what i look at and go wow and you're getting all of the i mean it feels like paris am i wrong i think that every presentation we've seen recently is and playable day one xbox game pass and you go oh that's so awesome because i'm paying you know at the time i think i was paying 17 bucks a month for it and then eventually raised to 20 yeah but see andy that that's that's my issue with this.

30:43You've now made day one on Game Pass unaffordable for the majority of people. The majority of people are not going to spend$30 a month for day one on Game Pass. The whole point of Game Pass from its inception was day one titles. That was the big, that's what separated it from PlayStation Plus. That's what separated it from any other subscription service that we've ever seen in gaming that wow i'm getting your big games first party games day one through this service and i spend at the time what was it 12 15 bucks a month now you've essentially doubled that and is is that worth it most people again with the rising costs of everything in this market right now that's not affordable for most people people are going to be way more selective about the games that they play so instead of me just blindly subscribing to a subscription service and when the games show up they show up and i play them now you're going to be more strategic about it you're going to actually think about is it worth me spending 70 for outer worlds 2 is it worth me spending 70 for ninja gaiden or call of duty or fable or forza horizon 6 because i can't afford to spend$360 per month on gaming.

31:59That's a lot for most people. So I don't know. I get they're doing what they got to do. Market conditions is a new buzzword for everything. But as we're seeing with this response, and I knew this is what was going to happen, people are balking against this. They are not happy. People are not accepting a 50 % increase on their top tier. It's just, it's not sustainable in my opinion. I think about how Steam has been just, you know, barreling through a lot of numbers in terms of the concurrent players. And we're constantly seeing more and more people playing on Steam and people, you know, leaning more towards PC gaming in a real big major way.

32:45that's kind of always been surprising to me because what brings in console players is the simplicity and the cost yeah and you're losing that like you're you're losing ground on that where it's supposed to be that you stick with console because ease of use simplicity not having to deal with downloads and drivers and all that bullshit but also you are spending a third of what you would get on a really good PC to look to try to get some sort of facsimile right like you're not trying to get a one for one thing I understand that I play on PC and I love paying the premium for that quality but like the whole thing with console gaming it's cost and simplicity and you are you're fucking that up like you're fucking up the reason why people are going

33:36Blessing Adeoye Jr.:towards a console as it is i'm fascinated to see how they try to justify it with the game releases of the next year you know i mean like i going back to the outer worlds 2 thing of that going um you know going at 80 and then that coming down then to 70 if that translated to the rest of the first party library that's coming up which maybe it's still maybe they still will pull that trigger who knows then you're talking about oh well if i'm spending 360 for games that are to get day one access to games that are 80 right really i only need to play five games before i make that back that we're not in that world right now you know what i mean like right now games are still coming in at a little bit uh less than that and even like you know if i was to do the division of 360 divided by 70 right like that still comes out to let's see here five like you got to play over five games but you then have to look at xbox first party and go all right deliver at least six must play games and that's my point next year that's my point deliver at least six games that your entire audience looks at and goes fuck we gotta play that we got we cannot miss out on that and like ideally more than that it's ideally you need more than that it's either delivering these day one titles paris these these like these have to be absolute must hit bangers or you can also continue to go the expedition 33 route the silksong route where you are partnering partnering with these major third parties and getting these day one releases like that also has to be they gotta be they gotta be crazy aggressive now on that front if in order to justify more aggressive because silk song was twenty dollars yeah so i'm paying a thirty dollar a month subscription to play a twenty dollar video game yeah like you know you if you're going to do that then yeah you have to deliver on that front even more so than you've been delivering this year because they've been killing it this year but you're gonna need to deliver more going forward and then yeah those first party games have to come you're gonna have to have a sizable amount of them and they're gonna have to be fucking bangers this shit's like gotta have hulu included or something for that you know what I mean like it's gotta have like it's gotta have like Disney plus with ads or ESPN plus with ads or some bullshit but see I think that's what they were attempting to do with the Ubisoft classics and the Fortnite stuff by adding additional value in it to somewhat justify the price increase but to what I've been seeing everyone saying online and we've been saying here not everyone wants I don't play Fortnite I mean my kids do they probably would take advantage of it but that's not something i'm going to use the ubisoft stuff i'm very selective on those the games i would play out of that selection as well um and i correction on something i said i think i said 360 a month i meant a year obviously but it it still holds up that the whole point again of game pass was the fact that it's going to allow me to try things that i wouldn't necessarily have played before or i was iffy on i can at least jump in and see if it's something for me you know genre rise like like you were saying now i need five to seven games a year coming from xbox game studios or whatever partner games that they have that i know i want to play and that i'm excited to play to justify it at the top tier at ultimate and you know we'll see i i don't i don't know if if that's even possible that i don't know if it's sustainable year over year i guess that's the point i'm trying to make you gotta include all the white craft in there too or some shit yeah oh yeah you know oh yeah this next year will be i think this next year will be the year we see if they're able to do that because going back to that last xbox showcase phil spencer said hey we're gonna see games from forza we're getting the forza horizon game that's finally taking place in tokyo you're gonna get uh the next year's game there you're seemingly gonna get maybe a halo based on phil spencer saying like you know we're gonna see the return of an iconic franchise and i think he named one more game there that i might be missing um it probably got canceled we'll see but like well this is the year to do it if you're going to be like yo we got this shit you're presenting next year as that year where you're bringing the shit so paris do you have any final thoughts on this topic um i mean my final thoughts on it is just simply it's a bummer it's a bummer man it's obviously a service that i've talked about and and you know, you know, planted my flag on for for years that it's the best value in gaming.

38:09But now I don't feel like I'd be justified in saying that anymore. It is now the onus is on Xbox to show why thirty dollars a month for your ultimate tier is worth the price of admission, because, you know, first glance, it does not seem that it is. You would probably be better off downgrading to either PC game pass or going to the premium tier or just getting out of Game Pass altogether and being very selective on the games that you purchase moving forward. Fair enough. The Epic online store gets a lot of free games every month. It's a good alternative. I mean, they're never like new shit, but it's always like, oh, wow, what a banger you just delivered.

38:51My final thoughts on this, Bless. Yes. And thank you, Paris, for joining us as well. It's like, we've already seen so many lives of hardworking, creative people get flipped upside down because they get laid off from a job that they weren't expecting to. And these are people that move their whole family. And these are people that maybe already weren't doing great financially just because of how pay is in the industry. And I think this, unfortunately, will be another bad decision made that will lead to less money being earned, that will lead to more layoffs And then more executives speak saying due to the current financial climate, we had to lay more people off.

39:37And it's always your fucking fault. And I'm just let's, you know, fucking what was today? October 1st. Let's say November 14th. That's a day I'm putting on it. There will be another layoff announcement. Like I'm just already anticipating when it happens. I'm just anticipating when it happens on November 14th. People are going to look back. It's going to be. It's just like it's so sad. Paris. It's so sad.

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