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Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire (news.xbox.com)
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Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.

Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC including current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, and major day one releases. You can find more details on Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, and PC Game Pass plans here, and manage your account here.

Our players cover a wide breadth of geographies, preferences, and tastes, so while there isn’t a single model that’s best for everyone, this change responds to a lot of feedback we’ve gotten so far. We’ll continue to listen and learn.

Thank you for being a part of the Xbox community.

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[–] 70 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Hello, we fucked up, please resubscribe, we promise we won't try to fuck with you again (for at least a few months).

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Well, I mean, I don't advocate for anyone to subscribe to Gamepass for a couple different reasons.

    But, like...yeah? Like, why would you shit on pricing coming down? That's objectively good for the end consumer. It's always up to each individual to decide if they want to pay, but for anyone who does or is considering, this is a good sign. Unless you exclusively did it for COD I guess, but that's a different issue.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    I don't think they're shitting on "pricing coming down". They're shitting on "company raises pricing, faces backlash, promises not to do it again after clearly having no qualms about screwing over consumers".

    The point isn't that "prices going down = bad", it's "prices going down ≠ company won't screw you over later"

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I wasn't shitting on the price going down. I was shitting on Microsoft. Give it some time, they'll attempt another price increase. GP has had four price changes in seven years of existence (once every year since 2023), I wouldn't bet on this one being the last.

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    • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's a massive drop (7 Dollars less) for Ultimate subscribers for sure, but this is still not cheap in my books. PC subscribers have less of a drop (2.5 Dollars), but it wasn't that expensive compared to Ultimate to begin with. And Call of Duty games won't be added to Ultimate and PC for an entire year. That's a lot.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Not that I care about cod particularly, but you're not kidding. They're yearly releases so that basically means you don't get to play at all until the player base moves to the next one.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    It's not that bad, there's usually more than enough of a player base to still easily find games. Honestly I think the newer CoD games are better a year after release. During it's release schedule, they try really hard to sell the battle pass so the weapons you get from going through the battle pass tends to be overpowered and then balanced after the end of the season.

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    • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Too late. They lost me. I had an uninterrupted Live sub since it was in beta. Had game pass for years. But the price surge was enough to get me to drop it.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    The price surge put some more nails in the coffin for me, but my breaking point was firing the team that made Hi-Fi Rush, their ONLY GOTY contender.

    Other nails in the coffin came from learning just how much the Azure team does to lick Israel's boots in their genocide.

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    • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I can't help but wonder if this was a correction, or intentional sleight of hand.

    If the last change never happened, and they just said the price goes up by $3 and COD is no longer included, would anyone be happy about that?

    Same situation, but now we're seeing it as a $7 price drop with no COD.

    I might switch back to ultimate again, but not until there's something in premium Gamepass that Im really interested in.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    According to some analysts, it's because Call of Duty lost $300M in sales after being added to Game Pass. They raised the price to get that money back, people started unsubbing, and now they're backtracking on putting CoD on game pass as a launch title (so they're reducing the cost again).

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    That was always a weird move to me. CoD and GP are like fundamentally opposed to eachother in how theyre trying to keep customers.

    CoD is the game. When you meet a casual and they say "yeah i play xbox" they mean "I play call of duty". They cement this by keeping the file size fucking massive so you cant fit other games. Only reason to have cod on gamepass is to trick fans into thinking "so I only have to pay a little a month and I get cod for free?" When youre milking them for more than it would cost.

    Jacking up the price to justify cods existence is possibly the dumbest move available.

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    • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    That was their plan all along. They tried to double the price of Gold and received a huge backlash, so they walked the change back, and then merged Gold with GamePass to raise the price again without people noticing. I don't think there's a chance of them going back to the old price point.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You could get a pc and not pay for online play. Just saying.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I have a PC. I only pay for gamepass to play 360 games online. PC doesn’t help me play 360 exclusives online or games that are a risk to play online on PC due to RCE exploits like the 360 era CoDs

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    No game is good enough to convince me to pay a subscription to play it online. I refused back when WoW came out and I will continue to do so. There are enough exclusives on PC.

    If the price of gamepass annoys you and you have a pc maybe you could also find games that don't need it.

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    • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Bailing water out of the Titanic.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Still too expensive. I am glad to see some companies facing pains for their relentless price gouging.

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    [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How much was it before it was $29.99 a month? 🤔

    Looks like it was $19.99 a month until they raised it to $29.99 6 months ago.

    Still an extra $3 a month though!

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    • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I couldn’t care less about this. I made the complete switch to Linux a few days ago. Microslop butchered the Xbox brand so bad that I don’t even want to play their games nor pay for their shitty pass anymore

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Too little too late.

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it's still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.

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