With a tweet that was both simple and a bit enigmatic, Xbox Game Pass gave a glimpse of the future of gaming and the players did not take long to start guessing. The tweet from the official account ‘thinking about all the surprise drops from this year. drop your 2026 guesses below 👀’ caused an avalanche of replies from gamers. The replies varied from different kinds of things like wishful thinking, complaints and some really interesting predictions of what the subscription service might look like in two years.
What are the 2026 wishers asking for? Most of these things are just the classic wishes of the gamers. There are players that ask for their favorite game series not only to make a comeback but also to release on Xbox who are almost crying. The biggest group among these players is asking for ‘Spyro 4’ and a lot of celebrations for the 30th anniversary of Crash Bandicoot. One user posted, ‘All we want is to focus on the legendary icons Crash and Spyro.’ Another user replied with only pictures of the purple dragon and the orange marsupial with fire emojis. The nostalgia for those legendary PlayStation characters who at present are part of Activision which is under the Xbox umbrella is definitely very strong.
Soon after that, specific ports and remasters followed. ‘Fallout 3 Remaster’ was mentioned by some people which is quite reasonable money-wise considering the popularity of the series, the show and that Bethesda is a first-party studio. Players are also putting forward a request that ‘Metal gear Rising: Vengeance’ or ‘NieR Automata’ should also be added to their subscription. One user made a prediction on a very particular and fascinating basis: ‘Light No Fire will be on Game Pass on day one in 2026. You heard it here first… or maybe from Sean Murray’s cryptic emoji tweet.’ Given that Hello Games has a backstory with No Man’s Sky and Game Pass, this latter scenario, to be honest, does not seem improbable at all.
However, the wish lists were not the only thing; disappointment was the other side of the coin. Players were continuously expressing their frustration from the whole scenario. A major factor among these was the issue of pricing. ‘Yep, are we expecting again a price hike?’ one user sarcastically answered. Another user switched to Portuguese and referring to the team as ‘mercenaries’ for their operations in Brazil—doubling up the subscription price, he accused, and getting him to cancel his subscription was his argument. ‘Probably a price hike again because the trillion $ company apparently doesn’t have enough resources for an Xbox wrapped,’ another user remarked, throwing some serious shade about the absence of a yearly recap feature like the one Spotify has.
The comments regarding the perceptions of game quality were the most damaging ones. ‘Not one of these is worth what you charge. Crooks.’ was one player’s remark. The other one answered ‘Probably lots of Gamepass Slop for 2026. That’s what 90% of Gamepass games are.’ Ouch, rough. The discussion even spread so widely to … cultural debates, with one user saying he canceled waiting for Xbox to ‘get rid of all those DEI slow mfs’ and stop delivering ‘mid crap games.’ This case has served as a reminder that there is always one very vocal and dissatisfied customer for every satisfied subscriber.
Amidst the confusion, there were also practical recommendations and questions. One of the players suggested ‘Shapez 2, Factorio, and Modulus’ which is definitely a dream list of games for all those who love factory-building games. Another player was reaching out to the WWII online shooter game ‘WWII Online’ asking to be available on Xbox consoles. Subsequently, the classic issue of tech support arose in the most unexpected place: ‘Why is the Xbox store not working?’ Seriously, a mood.
What is the conclusion that can be drawn from this social media uproar? Gamers that have Xbox Game Pass are indeed a very passionate and nostalgic bunch who have huge wishlists. They surely know the time for the cool surprise drops—and also the not-so-cool price changes. Their predictions for 2026 range from being dreamy (a big new Hello Games project) through this one being a bitterly realistic (another price hike). The service has grown to such an extent that every single tweet is now a battleground for hope and hard criticism. It is a messy, human-centered and absolutely fascinating view of what happens when you ask a large community of gamers to foretell the future. They will tell you the future but, also, in detail, what is the present’s fault according to them. And who knows, may be someone at Xbox is reading these replies and preparing a list of what to announce in 2026 or at least how not to repeat a PR disaster. Only time can tell, but the conversations have already begun.
