Xbox All Access: A PR timebomb?

Xbox All Access is an excellent offering, but this is what debt looks like when it's dressed up like Netflix. By presenting 'buy now pay later' like it's a Game Pass-style subscription, Microsoft could be storing up PR problems for later, if the media catches wind of people who have suddenly realised All Access is less 'your all-inclusive pass to Xbox' and more 'a loan to buy an Xbox.'

Martin SFP Bryant looks at the risks of combining a real subscription (Game Pass) with something that just looks like a subscription.

[JamieRiddell]

Crazy. I did not know it was a loan! Feels a little like Hire Purchase back in the day. I bought my first computer on Hire Purchase from Radio Rentals which turned out to be very very expensive as the price of computers fell but my contract didn't!

[willdelaney]

Xbox is literally starting Swiss bank accounts to take peoples money and not give it back, they nuked my Xbox one x too, last time I tried to start halo it froze the first 3 tries, turned the console off n on, froze 2 more times cold rebooted the Xbox, it booted up really slow but worked