The subscription service that provides access to Starfield and Halo will no longer be provided free of charge
An employee benefit that should cost them next to nothing to offer too.
Like, they have enough money to buy fucking Activision but not enough to give their employees free access to their own service.The thing is, if they don’t offer these cheap stuff, they may have to do something crazy, like pay staff what they are worth. This definitely looks like a false economy.
Also, giving access to your devs also kinda makes them defacto testers when they’re off the clock.
Like… getting your own people to use your product is a net positive.
Actually though. You see this in other industries too but once shareholders are involved everyone’s brain becomes smooth and creamy.
Microsoft staff aren’t hurting for money. They get paid a lot, and they have amazing benefits including dozens of perks like this.
Thats an abusive relationship if I‘ve seen one.
Employer/Employee is an inherently abusive relationship.
Often, yes. But you can’t take responsibility away from employers. I have been one and I behaved responsible. I didn’t become a billionaire because greed is always abusive.
Once I looked into Amazon employee benefits and you didn’t even get a free Prime account.
Yeah, but they pay 200-400% what competitors pay. The drawback is that they work you like a dog.
The bigger drawback is that you’re working for Amazon, surely.
It’s also a very hostile work environment purposefully built to pit you against your coworkers.
Yeah, that’s why people typically tap out after a few years. I know someone who worked for them for 3 years. Working for them accelerated his retirement plans by a decade since they pay so well, but after 3 years he was very unhappy and left.
Their pay really isn’t great. For warehouse work or offices, most cities have an absolute abundance of positions with equal or higher pay.
I’m talking about engineering positions, but the warehouse pays pretty well around here (Seattle) too.
Such a cheap perk. Such an unnecessary FUCK YOU. Terrible decision making.
I’d get a PlayStation just out of spite.
Nice try, Sony!
With what Sony done recently I am not getting into it that quickly. PS5 would be my last “day 1” console from Sony. It’s fake below but imagine:
“PS6 now comes with [insert amazing spec and launch year line up], with all the features now provided on the platform and sustain our development and continual improvement of PS6, a PS Plus [insert whatever tier that made up by marketing] is included for the first year and is required for your PS6 to function and access our online store and all other essential functions. Don’t forget that we also give you [insert features that gamer don’t really give a fuck], it will be amazing when you are not playing a game and just wants to chill and/or social with your friends.”
If that happened, then PS5 would be my “last” playstation, I am not paying more PS Plus.
- reminder, if you “pre-order” anything, the auto renewal is turned back on automatically. Best check your auto renew and if possible just remove the CC info.
edit: typo etc.
So i guess no one opened the article recently, or at all. Here’s the new title
Report: Microsoft Staff Losing Free Xbox Game Pass, Complain To Phil Spencer [Update: He Reversed It]
Yeah, that was updated after I posted it. Good to know they reversed it!
That update wasn’t there yesterday. Thank you for posting about it!
After looking into this more with the team, I just want to confirm that no change will be made to Game Pass availability in 2024.
So it’s going away in 2025 now?
Plenty of time for these employees to look for better jobs
That must be the positive change to the industry the takeover was promised to bring.
the worst thing about this whole ordeal is that thumbnail for this article.
I don’t know, it really helps me feel the plight for lumberjacks who quite their job to go work at Microsoft so they could get free gamepass.
Ironically holding a MacBook.
