Xbox Game Pass is about to change this month, and that immediately means a hefty price increase. We tell you everything you want to know.
Do you have an Xbox Game Pass subscription? If so, a lot is going to change starting today. Subscriptions will look different and there is also a price increase coming.
There will be a total of four different subscriptions. We tell you the differences and the prices, in short everything you want to know.
Xbox Game Pass gets changes and a new subscription plan
If you have an Xbox, it almost makes sense that you have a Game Pass subscription. The different subscriptions allow you to play online and with the more expensive variants you can play a lot of games for free. With Microsoft’s own titles, that’s from day one.
So scoring a subscription is ideal. What many people did was buy a lot of cheap codes in advance, in order to score an Xbox Game Pass subscription cheaply. This will no longer work, as it will soon no longer be possible to purchase the service for longer than 13 months. Microsoft wants to curb this trick, because it is losing revenue.
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But the subscriptions themselves and costs are also changing. Here they come.
Xbox Game Pass Core
You already know this subscription. It is the membership to play online multiplayer games. In addition, you can play a limited number of games for free (about 25). You are also offered regular special promotions and discounts.
This subscription was 60 euros per year and will cost you 70 euros per year from now on. However, the monthly price of 9.99 euros remains intact.
Xbox Game Pass Standard
This is a new Game Pass subscription from Xbox and should be released sometime in the next few months. This option gives you hundreds of games to play, it is possible to game online and you get special offers.
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However, a number of options do not appear to be included here. It seems that games from EA, Cloud Gaming and Quest will not be in this subscription if the description on the site is to be believed. Also, you can whistle to play big games from Microsoft studios such as Bethesda and Activision Blizzard from day one.
No price is yet known for this subscription in the Netherlands. In the United States, this membership costs $14.99 a month, so it could well be $14.99 a month in the Netherlands.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate just stays the same with all the benefits you know. So that’s all the features of Standard, but with that comes the extra benefits like playing games from day one, EA games available and Xbox Cloud Gaming. You also get special perks and discounts on games from the Game Pass Library.
This subscription also gets a price increase. The price was 14.99 euros per month, but now becomes 17.99 euros per month. So a big increase, because for the money you used to spend on Ultimate, you now get Standard instead.
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PC Game Pass
The last subscription is the PC Game Pass, which remains the same as its predecessor. So that means hundreds of PC games, day one releases EA games and discounts. As with the other subscriptions, you are going to pay more for this one. First this was 9.99 euros per month, but now it will be 11.99 euros per month.
Quite a few changes coming and hefty price increases. These are possibly due to the fact that Microsoft’s Xbox branch is not doing so well. Besides, those huge acquisitions like Activision Blizzard have to be paid for from somewhere. It remains to be seen whether the price increase will bring Xbox into better territory, or whether people will cancel their subscriptions and buy a PlayStation, for example.