Amid worldwide economic turmoil, Microsoft has jacked up the price of Xbox Game Pass subscriptions again, this time by 50% for Ultimate, and people are rightfully responding with jokes at its expense as well as cancelations.
To be clear, Ultimate is the only Game Pass subscription tier that's having its price increased, but as my colleague Dustin so eloquently phrases it in his writeup of Microsoft's announcement, it's also "the only tier of Game Pass that really matters" because it's the only one that gives day one access to big new releases like The Outer Worlds 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
