The first to share hard evidence that they’ve been offered a limited-time Game Pass deal that isn’t available to everyone was synthlov3r, who described the situation, with screenshots, on the Game Pass subreddit. The images show that they were offered one year of Game Pass Ultimate for $16.09 per month. They don’t seem to have to commit to a full year either. They’re just getting that price on a rolling monthly subscription, presumably as long as they don’t cancel.
The user noted that they tend to pick Game Pass up a month at a time and never stay signed up, hypothesizing that this might be Xbox’s way of trying to stop that pattern. Better $16.09 per month for a whole year than $22.99 here and there. However, as is often the case when it comes to dynamic pricing, not everyone can see the deal, nor has anyone figured out a surefire way to trigger it.
Others are now considering letting their subscriptions lapse to see if they can then sign back up for less. That isn’t guaranteed to work, though. Some have confirmed that, even though they were signed up before but they’re not now, they aren’t met with a welcome back offer of any description, let alone one that could save you $82 over the course of a year.
The problem with dynamic pricing is, outside of anecdotal evidence like this Reddit post and its replies, there’s never a way to unequivocally prove it. Xbox will almost certainly never admit to dynamic pricing for Game Pass because if it were to do so, everyone would immediately try to game the system. It would also run the risk of legal repercussions, as demonstrated by the backlash to the discovery that PlayStation seems to use dynamic pricing in its online store.
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-game-pass-dynamic-pricing/
