Xbox Game Pass Ultimate gives gamers a library of hundreds of games that they can play across Xbox, PC, Android, and IOS which also includes all first-party Microsoft releases as soon as they come out. These changes to the subscription service dramatically dropped it in value as various features that were once exclusive were now made available to everyone. Although no payment was required for these popular titles other Xbox games still require Xbox Live Gold. Depending on the pay style certain gamers could now potentially be wasting their money. Players no longer need to pay the Xbox Live Gold monthly fee to play popular titles at the time such as Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, or Apex Legends along with other titles. These features consisted of Party Chat and Looking for Group posts, the most popular social features on the platform.
Multiplayer experience and free games monthly, what’s not to like? Gold Begins To Tarnishīack in 2021, Microsoft decided to drop the Xbox Live Gold requirement on free-to-play multiplayer titles and open multiple social features to all players on Xbox. Fans were happy with paying for Xbox Live Gold getting their money’s worth. These were the very early stages and the birth of Xbox’s Games With Gold feature granting subscription holders four new Xbox games monthly. It served as the ultimate gateway to the multiplayer experience that Xbox has to offer.Īs a thank you to Xbox Live Gold members Microsoft gave Xbox Live subscribers Fable III, Defense Grid: The Awakening, and Assassin’s Creed II in 2013. Prime Daysįor almost two decades Xbox Live Gold was seen by Xbox owners as a must-have subscription. ‘The point is, for now, Xbox Live Gold is still sticking around, but it’s still on the roadmap to go away for good.What many fans have considered an absolute necessity in its past, Xbox Live Gold in 2022 seems to have suffered a shift in notoriety now becoming the laughing stock of Microsoft’s gaming subscription service. He adds that the upcoming Halo Infinite could be a ‘big lightning rod’ for new subscribers, with 2022’s Starfield to follow suit. ‘ probably still won’t go away until it’s probably closer to something like 40-50 million active users for Game Pass, but all that stuff seems within their grasp right now as long as they keep up the marketing side and promotional side, along with all these games that are getting announced.’ ‘As we get close to Halo I bet they easily hit 23-25 million by the end of this year, and once they’re at 30 million they’ll probably reassess what they’re doing with Xbox Live Gold.
According to him, the total was somewhere between 19 and 23 million before E3 2021.
As for what the threshold of Game Pass subscribers could be, Grubb suggests that it could be 40 to 50 million, a number he says Microsoft is nowhere close to approaching.
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