Game Pass Subscribers - What do you plan to do following the changes?

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Are you an Xbox Game Pass subscriber? What do you plan on doing now that Microsoft has made changes to the service? Remain on the same tier? Sub to lower/higher tier? Cancel?

Essential (formerly Core) and Premium (Formerly Standard) are the same price as before, but include extra perks like games on PC and cloud gaming. 

Ultimate and PC are more expensive than before. Ultimate increased from $20/month to $30/month and now includes Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ Classics, and 1440p cloud gaming. PC doesn't include anything more but increased from $12/month to $16.50/month.

Here are the details for the different Game Pass tiers:

Game Pass Essential

• $9.99/month - £6.99/month (Same price as before)
• Playable on PC, console, & cloud
• 50+ games playable on console and PC (Up from 25+)
• Unlimited cloud gaming
• Online console multiplayer
• In-game benefits, including for Riot Games
• Rewards towards purchases
  • Can earn up to $25 per year (25k points globally) in the Store by playing games
  • Can earn 10 MS Points per $1 spent on games and add-ons
  • 1x bonus earn rate for quests

Game Pass Premium

• $14.99/month - £10.99/month (Same price as before)
• Playable on PC, console, & cloud
• New Xbox published games added within a year of release (excludes Call of Duty titles)
• Unlimited cloud gaming with shorter wait times
• Online console multiplayer
• In-game benefits, including for Riot Games
• Rewards towards purchases
  • Can earn up to $50 per year (50k points globally) in the Store by playing games
  • Can earn 20 MS Points per $1 spent on games and add-ons
  • 5% extra MS Points for select Game Pass library games and add-ons purchases
  • 2x bonus earn rate for quests

Game Pass Ultimate

• $29.99/month - £22.99/month (Up from $19.99/month - £14.99/month)
• Playable on PC, console, & cloud
• 75+ day one games a year, including all Xbox published games day one
• Ubisoft+ Classics (Normally ~$15.98/month) included
• EA Play included
• Fortnite Crew coming November 18 - Normally $11.99/month - Fortnite Battle Pass, 1,000 V-Bucks each month, and more
• Unlimited cloud gaming at the best quality (Up to 1440p) with shortest wait times
• Online console multiplayer
• In-game benefits, including for Riot Games
• Rewards towards purchases
  • Can earn up to $100 per year (100k points globally) in the Store by playing games
  • Can earn 40 MS Points per $1 spent on games and add-ons
  • 10% extra MS Points for select Game Pass library games and add-ons purchases
  • 4x bonus earn rate for quests

PC Game Pass

• $16.49/month - £13.49/month (Up from $11.99/month - £9.99/month)
• PC only
• Day one games (Including Call of Duty)
• EA Play included
• In-game benefits, including for Riot Games
• Can earn up to $50 per year (50k points globally) in the Store by playing games

https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465880/xbox-game-pass-tiers-rebranded-new-features-as-ultimate-now-costs-30month/

Last edited by trunkswd - on 02 October 2025