When Microsoft lit the rocket booster under Game Pass pricing last week, raising the cost of the Ultimate tier in the US by 50%, they neglected to tell you that they’d also scrapped a 10% discount on DLC for Game Pass games, previously available to Ultimate subscribers. Now, when Ultimate subscribers buy DLC, they’ll earn extra Microsoft Reward points, which can be traded for things like gift cards. Rather than saving you money, in other words, they’re incentivising you to spend more of your cash inside Microsoft’s business.
