> I imagine this new free plan is a ploy to increase the number of subscribers they can report so Game Pass looks like less of a disaster. I wonder if it will

> I imagine this new free plan is a ploy to increase the number of subscribers they can report so Game Pass looks like less of a disaster. I wonder if it will offset all the cancellations they had due to the recent price hike. Enough came through that it crashed their subscription cancellation page for quite a while and (admittedly anecdotally) I know half a dozen people (including myself) who decided the new price wasn't a good value and cancelled over the past week.