No more Gold? 12 month XBLG membership discontinued!

[PotentHerbs]

mjk45 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.

Would replacing gold with a gamepass sub for the same price work ? I have gold but no game pass since I now use my xbox for exclusives and my time playing MP has declined year on year since its peak on the 360 leading me to look at ending my gold sub when it finishes up in November but game pass combined with online .could work in MS's favor when it comes to gamers like me.

It would essentially be a massive price hike to play online if MS decided to lock multiplayer behind a GP subscription. As great a value as Games Pass offers, I can't see this going over well with their userbase.