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/

Subbing to the essential tier. I'm currently focused on my Switch 2 right now, and I'm not interested in paying $30 a month for Game Pass. I'll probably switch to Premium when I shift focus back to Xbox, but I'm not sure.

I've got Game Pass Ultimate maxed out at 3 years, so I don't need to worry about it for a while. While I've played enough day one games this year to have saved money at $30/month I will need to consider if it is still worth it in a few years or do I just wait up to a year to play games. I don't care about CoD or really any of the add-ons. Day one games is the only reason I am subbed to Ultimate over the other tiers. 

Not maxed out but I am fine till end of 27.

My multi year subscription ended last year so I'll sub for one or two months a year to catch up on all the released first party games.

Here is what I think could work better and give gamers more options. Have one tier for Game Pass with add-ons so you can pick and choose what you want.

Game Pass - $15/month or $150/yr (Same content as Premium tier)

Add-ons:

• Day one games - $8/month
• EA Play - $4/month
• Ubisoft+ Classics - $6/month
• Fortnite Crew - $8/month
• WoW - $12/month

Other subscription services have a discount compared to subbing to them separately. Day one games would be the biggest thing people would want and that would be a bit higher than Ultimate used to be if you pay monthly, but still less than it is now without all the other forced content. 

I'm downgrading to Essential, I rarely play the games in the catalogue and just tend to play the ones I actually own. All I need is the online multiplayer.

They could even split it up by audience:

• Family friendly games
• Retro games
• Shooters
• Sport games
• etc.

For some people (like me) I don't like paying more for more games I'm never going to play.

I have still one year on ultimate. I mend to see to how much they raised it too then. I will probably cancel and subscribe only for a month or two a year

With Netflix I downgraded to the lowest tier, which is still more than it was at the start.

Here it is 

Standard with Ads is $7.99/month, Standard (without ads) is $18.99/month, and Premium (no ads, 4K-supported) is $23.99/month.

It started at $6.99 a month without ads and had better content... I might cancel it altogether, just my kids are still using it. I just put it on nowadays to fall asleep with as the ad breaks are still less annoying than on cable (for now).


I have never regularly subscribed to gamepass, just the $1 deal a couple times to check it out. It never caught on with me, I was always back to playing my own games before the trial period ended. 

PS+ I'm also on essential, or whatever is lowest, for my kids who still play online. (I don't). So that can go as well once they leave the house. 


I have too many games to play, not enough time. Subscription service makes no sense.

Plus when I buy something I want the money to go to the developers of that game, not disappear is some pot from which the platform holder can withhold whatever they want / pay other publishers I don't like. 30% is bad enough, how much of the subscription revenue actually ends up in developer's hands?..

So definitely not going to subscribe now lol.