… Some in the replies even speculated this could be a free Game Pass tier, and while that isn’t out of the question considering many other subscription services that have one of those albeit not among gaming companies , I fail to see Microsoft, of all companies, going down that route. …
… That might change soon, with rumors of a free tier in Apple Music now circulating online. Apple may now be working on a free tier, just like Spotify and YouTube Music. …
… There are also ongoing rumors about additional Game Pass tiers. These include a potential first-party-only option, and even speculation around a Netflix tie-in. My colleague Jez Corden has also discussed the idea that Xbox could be exploring a build-your-own subscription model. …
… For me, if it included all first-party Xbox games and Netflix, I could see myself paying around $12.99 at most, especially since it'll likely just be Netflix’s ad-based tier. That said, I have no plans to drop my Ultimate subscription anytime soon. …
… References to “Project Saluki” have been discovered in a recent update to the Xbox PC app this week, with Microsoft describing the codename as “China market expansion for Game Pass, Rewards, and subscription tiers.” While Microsoft offers a variety of games in China through Activision Blizzard, it … …
… Earlier this month, Xbox also slashed the price of its top-tier subscription offering , Game Pass Ultimate, after customers balked at the $30 monthly cost. …
… Titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 , neither of which was made by a major first-party Xbox studio, did eventually get added to the service’s top tier as huge selling points, probably earning their respective publishers a good chunk of change as well as boosting Microsoft’s o… …
… But the price hike has created speculation among Plex subscribers that Plex's future costs of serving those with the Lifetime subscription plan are causing it to wean users off the option by pricing it so high. …
It looks like the rumored new Game Pass tier will be officially called Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition . …
… With the latest frontier models, he said, that's no longer the case. "The unit of sale – a subscription, a plan tier – had been decoupled from the unit of actual cost," he wrote. …