Companies love getting your money early, especially with higher interest rates, so this only makes sense if the prices are going way up.

Well, guess I won’t renew my sub. Tbh it’s not even worth it for me at least, not only I mostly play indie games that are cheap but also Microsoft delays all updates for those games by weeks compared to steam which means often games are unplayable on gamepass while other platforms are perfectly fine

Can’t you do the same thing people were doing but once a year instead?

I stacked 3 years last year from Turkey. So got another 2 years for cheap at least.