No more Gold? 12 month XBLG membership discontinued!

[PotentHerbs]

Mr Puggsly said:

PotentHerbs said:

I'm not sure how reliable Tom Warren is, compared to someone like Brad Sams, but the latter has suggested multiplayer will be locked to a Games Pass subscription, which is the absolute worse case scenario for the industry. I feel like Sony and Nintendo would follow suit in terms of increasing the cost to play online if MS did this.

Unless the plan is to get rid of Xbox Live Gold, that won't happen. Because Live Gold becomes useless.

And if that happens, what is Gamepass Ultimate for?

MS is raising the price of Gold if there is no longer a 12 month option. Gamepass Ultimate users are the only people that might not care.

Well, XBL Gold seems to be getting phased out, if Jeff Grubb, Tom Warren, and Brad Sams are to be believed. 

Whether this means online multiplayer becomes free, online becomes locked to a GP subscription, or a lower tier GP entry is introduced, remains to be seen.