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Microsoft brings back $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, nerfs Xbox Live Gold trick

Further adjustments after the price increase

Marco Wutz

Microsoft brings back $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, nerfs Xbox Live Gold trick
Microsoft brings back $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, nerfs Xbox Live Gold trick /

Microsoft continues to adjust the pricing of Xbox Game Pass: After increasing the overall prices of the subscription service, the company has brought back an old offer – if you’ve never been a subscriber to Xbox Game Pass before, you can now get the first month of a Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass membership for only $1. After the first month, you’re due to pay the full regular price for the subscription.

Curiously, the offer is not available for the regular old console-only Xbox Game Pass.

An adjustment has been made to the Xbox Live Gold trick as well. People used to buy Xbox Live Gold and then convert it to Xbox Game Pass time equally – while the mechanism itself will still be around, the 1:1 conversion rate is gone. If you’re converting Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass now, you’ll be doing so under a 3:2 ratio, so 30 days of Xbox Live Gold will give you 20 days of Xbox Game Pass.

Xbox Game Pass recently added GTA 5 to its library and was attacked by PlayStation boss Jim Ryan for being “value destructive.”

Anyone with a Xbox Game Pass membership will be able to play Starfield on launch day when it comes out on September 6, 2023. The Lamplighters League is another Day 1 title coming to the service later this year.

Microsoft and Bethesda have also been confirmed to attend Gamescom 2023, which should bring some good news for Xbox Game Pass members as well.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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