I would think a "paid" subscription means no ads. Greed greed greed. Xbox live was all i needed.

I aint paying for ADS like who tf would want to be in the middle of a battle royale match and then gets an ad for Cheerios or something

You forgot the next phase where everyone stops paying for game pass.

Wait about two weeks and Sony will make an equally garbage move along with a price hike. The only difference is when Sony does it, it'll be accepted.

5 minutes into gaming a burger king ad plays

Gonna price themselves out of customers

It’s a no go. Xbox you are f- ing up bad

Ads are one of the worst things invented

I legit stopped paying for gamespass and bought my games on sale

Gamepass is lower down on the priority list, it went up from $19.99 a month to $22-$23. Even with ads its going to go up more, there's too much of life's essentials to cover before any subscription services. Would have to be almost free if they fill it up with ads, hate having my limited data wastes on crappy ads, they can shove the ads where the sun don't shine.

so basically the Xbox will become the Adbox

Life long gamer and every day I’m closer to quitting getting worse by the day…… absolutely sick of it

No offense Ray but everytime I see your video in my list I seem to skip them. It's not even your fault. It's xbox fault. It's been bad news every upload for the last 2 months 😢

CD Keys FTW ✨

Zero interest in Gamepass, zero interest in digital games, zero interest in game streaming.....Series X will be my last Xbox

1v1 last circle on a warzone match and ad decide to pop up mid fight 😭😭😭

Ultimate cost 240 a year. Most people dont even spend 240 a year on games. On top of that thats the price of a new xbox s every year. Pc users who dont pay for multiplayer stay winning in everyway. Theres absolutely no reason to buy into xbox now.

As it goes with everything, it always gets more expensive for a worse experience.

Yeah nope, advertising for gamepass inside of gamepass,count me out,I'm not going to be paying for gamepass if it's going to have advertising

Only way I would except an ad filled gamepass tir is if it was free with ad's

Is it even worth buying a new Xbox right now? I still have the launch Xbox one and it’s working fine. Lags a bit and the external power brick sounds like it’s on life support buts it’s still just as good.

Hardpoint! *ad starts playing** Round over! FUUUC***

As I watch an ad during a video about how annoying ads are 😂😂

Why the hell would anyone want ads..?

How about fixing the damn system so it doesn’t crash so much?

As someone who only had $15 for (consoles, accessories, games, DLC Services, Etc) at the end of the month for more than 20 years straight gamepass Ultimate used to be a godsend before they started to raise the price

This actually makes me happy, I sold my series s a week back to switch to PlayStation. Like I tried to support them, but they do not care about it.

How do you plug an ethernet cable into the firestick?

I don't think anyone clicks on those ads anyway so I don't know why the advertisers bother. Who really clicks on a KZfaq ad on purpose (for example)?

Not paying for gamepass ultimate, going to stay at "Core" way too much for my budget, especially paying on top of streaming services that im paying as well

bro why would they do that for a bit of profit ? theyr concole is barly caching up on concole race why would they do that ?

i am legit going to cancel my game pass subscription for real. I am for sure not paying more.

For the one game a year I get pumped for on game pass ( def not call of duty ! ) . I’ll be canceling when the price goes up again . Is PlayStation this bad ?

I mean you could side load the Xbox app onto older fire Stick models with the downloader app if you really want it. It runs just fine. Of course both companies just want you to buy the newest thing so they locked it off the store.

One disc game is $60 and people are complaining about endless games for around the price of one or two games. I'm a physical media guy and just want Xbox Live Gold. But it's hilarious people are complaining about a ton of games for the price of two or three physical ones. Smh.

I’m cancelling Gamepass button ⬇️

This is why i switched to pc. No subscriptions, more games, and much cheaper prices. AND i can play any 360 game i want with xenia.

I stopped caring for XGP and XGPU for quite some time. I only play the 9.99 to play oneline and that's it. I'm not paying almost $13-$20 just for a month of a game when I can buy it and play for years and save more money for game DLC's for cosmetics.

From the look of your headset, you're either a rage gamer, or you have a cat.

The Pulse3D headsets work great for their price and it's super cheap and easy to replace the ear cups. You can buy 3 Pulse3D headsets for the price of an Inzone H9 (they discontinued the H7 and the H3 is trash). The only reason I even have an H9 is due to receiving it as an exchange after experiencing issues with the H7 I had - which was purchased for around half of its $200 MSRP. The simultaneous Bluetooth phone connectivity is nice, but not as necessary because of the Discord integration. The main thing you gain for spending $200 more on the headset is the ANC, which is definitely top notch. If you can get them for cheap or have money to burn, then go for it. Note: the Inzone headsets are quite large and even though my cranium is massive, the headset still feels loose-fitting when reduced to its smallest size.

I heard about ads before but c'mon Xbox leave us alone. I love streaming devices but ethernet in a Fire TV stick? I never noticed one.

I was shook when I saw those headphones 🎧 😂

The girlfriend bit was funny as hell ngl. You handsome Devil lol

Was just playing need for speed most wanted (2005) for 360 and i noticed an advertisement. But! It wasnt a crappy ad. It was a blimp, in the game, that had "Burger king" on it. 😂😂😂 I actually enjoyed it vs the unskippable, intrusive, jarring and downright scummy/scammy ads we have now.

For people that have Wi-Fi and can’t run an Ethernet cord throughout your house. They sell a converter that changes your Wi-Fi to an “Ethernet connection” pretty much stabilizes your connection a lot better for modern gaming its called a power line

Last week, Forza Horizon 4 was still being sold at $60 on the Xbox store. Announcements were already made that the game is being delisted this December, yet it was still $60. Microsoft already killed FM7 the exact same way (delisted it rather than pay to renew licenses to cars and music). When FM7 was delisted, great sales were offered in “apology” and you could get the ultimate edition with all content for $20. Well, the same finally goes for FH4. This week marks the first week of hugely discounted deals for FH4. You can get the base game for a mere $12. I recommend shelling out a few more dollars for the ultimate edition though as it grants all DLC (which will also be delisted) for the full experience. These are dark days for Xbox. Delisting 1st party franchise games doesn’t help. Buy it while you still can.

If i only get to play older games going forward i am all good with that, I'm 40 now, backlog would take up my remaining time until i depart this mortal coil, I'll see if there are ads and that nonsense in hell.

This makes my old 360 look amazing right now 😂

I always thought the day of a decoder card in a PC would come for consoles before a streaming stick. They could make consoles around the card for those without PC's. Microsoft already had the dominant OS on PC.

Spending $20 a month to play alot of games is better then spending $60 for each games and we all know whe not just buy 1 game a month!

i didnt know you could connect an ethernet cable to a firestick! since youre an xbox channel, i think itd be awesome if you could give connecting an ethernet cable to a firestick just to test the lag and stuff just for show. if you could take a small tv to where the router is. that way you could give an idea if it works well for people that can connect to ethernet

just get a steel series plug in. I used to have a fully wireless one that just connected to the xbox no plug in, but since i have two xbox now one on a large tv and one on a 160hz monitor, the plug in is so useful because I just plug it in and my headset connects without doing a thing. SteelSeries Arctis 1 Wireless Gaming Headset for Xbox - USB-C Wireless - Detachable ClearCast Microphone - for Xbox One and Series X, PS4/PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch and Lite, Android, on amz

Boo no ads for something I paid for

Time to sell the Xbox and go to PC/Playstation ✌️ It’s as if Microsoft are trying their hardest to rid of us Xbox players. 😅

I like being able to play my xbox games no matter where i am.

Good for you. Fuck what the haters say. You do have a beautiful wife. I actually had to pause the video to confirm. Cause I typically listen to your videos over headphones while I'm working. Is she attractive. And of course she is . But this world is full of hate. So let the haters hate. Keep making videos. Love your content even though I hate how the future of xbox is heading.

That's way I don't pay for PSN or Xbox core to hell with online,

Am I the only person having issues with Xbox parties recently? Especially when I make a group post, I’ll get switched to gamechat even though it says I’m not, or I’ll be disconnected from the party. It’s been happening to my friends also, but wanted to know if it’s happening to anyone else

For your headset choice, definitely don’t consider Turtle Beach. They were fragile but decent 20 years ago, but a modern $200 set is a buggy nightmare like the rest of their products. I accidentally got a modern set that I use maybe once a month, and the performance across the board is okay. But the bugs you come across straight out of the box will encourage you to not to talk to anyone.

Man, I hate saying this, but Xbox is truly going downhill. They used to have really good games and now I wish I would’ve bought a PS five instead because they have such great games on their platform. God of war one, God of war two last of us,ghost of Tashima, uncharted, etc. you get the point PlayStation just seems to have way better games. I feel like I got burned buying this new Xbox.

Im not sure about the pricing over there, but here in the uk, the Nova pro Wireless are just a tiny bit more than those JBLs and id recommend those 100%>

The problem with this is it's the shareholders that are pushing all this crap. They simply want more money more growth it will never stop if Xbox was privately owned then the greed wouldn't be so bad.

They should introduce a trade in system for downloaded games

The true strategy is to buy the new $60 game pass core 12 month gift cards which give you Xbox live for a year. The unfortunate part is it locks you in for a year but it’s dirt cheap compared to month by month basis. Plus most of the games I would play on game pass I already own anyway or could buy when they go on sale.

Some of us live in rural areas where internet options are still few and less than reliable. Not to mention kind of slow. Stream gaming is simply not a viable option out here. I bought Starfield and I opted to download it to my console. It took 3 DAYS to download (74 hours, actually)! I kinda require physical copies of games...not game streams. 100% online games is a sucky idea.

As a tech guy myself you’re doing yourself a huge disservice by not running Ethernet to your basement and the rest of your house. EVERYTHING just works better not just game streaming. Find you a central location to put your modern, switches, and a patch panel and run drops to your whole home. In your main rooms run at least two cables since you’re already running one anyways even if you don’t plan to use it at the moment. When you get done you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it a long time ago.

Ads are cancer.

I am against this wholeheartedly, which means they'll prob do it, but I really think a lot of people are going to bow out. Mobile gamers might be used to it because it was almost always that way, but console and PC gamers largely won't stand for it. If they do this, Xbox Live (GP Core) should be free.

We need voice over screen recordimg ..like wdf how nany decades before we have that

I don't even care about ads

I don't mind an ad supported gamepass tier if it goes out. Maybe just keep it on the dashboard or on the loading screen before the game launches and at most at the main menu of the games.

I think there is a fairly large group that isn't on Game Pass that would think a cheaper Game Pass with ads is enticing.. but I don't think many current Game Pass subscribers will take it well, so I think it's a hard sell.

Hmm I guess my next console will be a play station

This fire stick doesn’t make sense when Microsoft is selling the series S

Is there any news on Xbox making a 4tb, 6tb or 8tb SSD? I really feel like 2 TB isn't enough space to make it worth buying.

I traded in my series s at best buy during Christmas and walked out with a new in box series x for $226.16. Gotta love the holidays!

Been on Gamepass since day one.... personally I think it's it's awesome. Especially given the fact that a year of GamePass is the equivalent cost of one AAA game. Works for me.

A “cheaper” version with ads is disgustingly & awful. Any tier with ads should be completely & utterly free. A free tier with ads is acceptable IMO but putting ads on anything paid for is wrong and will lead to very bad things in the future cause the slope is slippery and corporations only care about profits.

Eventually games are going to have commercials

Ain't not way my friend got kicked off Xbox for an ad, and then 10mins later kicked me off as well

Realy feels like Xbox puts out ONE good 1st party game per year. One. Its insanity.

2:01 the article does say free Gamepass.

I just want to say that when Sony did this back in the day with the PS3 what ended up happening was they got rid of PlayStation home and then they started charging a subscription model and ever since Sony has been getting tighter and tighter and they're slowly following in Microsoft's footsteps

Anyone here still experiencing Wireless wifi randomly disconnecting??

Sounds like bull 💩 to me. Microsoft already have their own ad network with the ability to run ads within all UWP apps. The Xbox is based on UWP. If that guy who posted this crap on X claims microsoft will be trial running this while they develop it, he clearly doesn't have a clue about anything to do with current technology. He's talking out his back side! Microsoft have had the ability to run ads via their own network since Windows 8. How do you think free apps on the Windows store and Xbox store make money? They RUN ADS. Those ads are 100% controlled by Microsoft! Just another fool on X looking for attention!

I didn't watch the whole vid yet but I've always supported Game Pass, just seems like a no-brainer, I had a PS5 for a bit and it's actually crazy how much worse their game subscription is. With Xbox you pay $20 and have a good amount of solid games instantly on your console AND PC.

Imagine your about to drop a nuke for the first time in cod and you get hit with a taco bell ad right before your last kill 😂

When are they gonna discontinue purchasing games individually?

Gamers made a deal with the devil for better graphics, now they want the devil to spit on his pitchfork before ramming it in.... did gamers really forget who owned XBox?

I tried briefly tried out the xbox app on the firestick. I got a fire stick for the purpose of playing my xbox games on it. A lot cheaper than buying a console. I have mixed feelings about it. The one thing I did not like about playing on it is not being able to select the language of the game. I live in Mexico but I prefer to play games in English. I have my fire stick set up for English, which seems to influence some of the games but not all of them. And the setting in the app don't allow for language selection. I tried out Lego Star Wars and it looked fine and played fine. However, it doesn't seem to allow for two player on the same screen. The game appeared to be in English. I then tried an RPG game and although that allowed for the spoken language to be in English, the text was not in English. On my xbox one the game is in English. Go figure. The game also played o.k. with no lag and the graphics looked o.k. The TV I am using is not a 4K tv. I have the fire stick connected to ethernet connection through a TP Link powerline adapter. An alternative to running cables through your house and it works very well. Might want to give those a try if they will wiork with your home's electrical system. They need to be on the same circuit to work.

Ads on loading screens…based of which game…I’ve thought they’ve been planning this. Don’t get me wrong..this is just a personal thought..no evidence

If you're looking to buy a headset, i would suggest the stealseries Arctic Nova 7's

I switched to pc and never looked back.

I swear if I get an ad during a game

The jbl quantum 360x is a good headset and it will work on the all the other consoles as well!

I have gamepass ultimate for my series x and it's only 15€ a month so not to bad for the entire gamepass library imo still awesome

Y’all remember when the gaming world was a safe haven filled with original creativity and immersive experiences? That era has officially ended. The industry has been infected along with everything else in the world. Money over everything. Nothing is safe anymore.

Ads should = free xbox live No ads = paid xbox live Wtf is wrong with these companies.

i have upgraded xbox live gold to gamepass for $1 for many years. I'm never paying full price

The buying power of the average consumer is decreasing, so like it or not, an ad-supported tier will probably be popular.