Microsoft senkt die Preise für Game Pass-Abonnements, nachdem der neue Xbox-CEO versprochen hat, sich wieder an Gamer zu binden. / Aber die Abonnements werden zum Startzeitpunkt keine neuen „Call of Duty“-Spiele enthalten.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/microsoft-game-pass-ultimate-subscription-price-cut.html
25 Kommentare
That’s a good thing, people who want to play CoD can buy the game and the rest gets a cheaper subscription. CoD players don’t play any other games anyways or rarely do.
Oh no, it won’t have the most generic shooter game packed with micro transactions?
Guess I’ll continue to not pay for it
They realized that the current slop call of duty puts out, doesnt work on gamepass because it would require people to enjoy the game for more than a month or two. Maybe the focus should be on making a better game people might actually give you the subscription money monthly for?
Dropping the price while removing a benefit is not really „a good thing“ because of course the price should be lower if you are removing things from the subscription. You are providing less service than you did previously. Of course i should be paying less lol. Though i will hand it to Microsoft for at least trying something. However the 6 year old $600 console still hurts them. It doesnt hurt Sony as much because they have alot of loyal fans and genuine exclusives. Microsoft needs to make amazing exclusives again.
Still higher than before the price hike, but at least they did something
Not going back to that subscription ideaology myself. Xbox was the last straw. I like paying Gabe for my games.
They didn’t cut prices. This is a different sku with things removed at a lower price. Cutting costs means lower price for the same thing.
I stopped playing multi-player games with randos a long time ago
$30 made no sense. That’s $360 _per year_. You can buy 5-6 brand new AAA releases or a crap load more of older titles on sale. It doesn’t even make sense if all you play is COD, you can get the game + DLC and pay the ridiculously overpriced $60 Xbox Gold to play online, and you’d _still_ only pay half that overall price.
$23 is perhaps closer to sustainability, maybe, but it’s still too high as a casual “subscribe and forget” for most people. PC Game Pass at $14 is more appealing, but again, that’s $170 _per year_. Imagine how many games you can buy on a Steam sale each year with that much.
Game Pass makes no financial sense for anyone. Not Microsoft, not customers.
Good luck to Team Xbox in getting lost players back in the fold
From $360/year to $276/year. The difference more than pays for Call of Duty. This is a good change but most people will find that $276/year is still a lot to pay for games. This also raises the specter of Microsoft pulling other high selling games from day one release on Game Pass.
I just wish they would add a day pass. I had game pass unlimited when it was $14.99 but realistically I could only play 4-5 nights a month if I was lucky. Once the cost went up I dropped it. Create a 24 hour $2.99 pass and xbox would at least make some money off people like me who can only game sporadically.
Good. I can finally go back to cloud gaming on my handheld.
Good.
If gamepass is cheaper than the amount of games I play don’t mind subscribing for a year. Especially when I pay games I may not otherwise play.
But if it becomes more expensive not only do I not subscribe I may touch my Xbox less often
I see this as an absolute win
One of their selling points for the price hike was the Fortnite pass, but that just got a cut in the amount of vbucks you get as well.
Cod has been shit anyways. Appeal to the masses. Drop the price.
cod sucks anyways
This is digital shrinkflation. I’m not coming back.
I think it’s a sensible move in the right direction.
They got too giddy having COD that they didn’t think through adding it to game pass.
To think I was paying that much more for COD all this time. They’ve all sucked after the original MWF 2 on the 360. Game pass might actually make sense again soon.
Just not today.
Love this deal. I don’t watch sports either. Remove all sports from cable TV and charge me less.
It’s the same thing. Unequivocally good for consumers.
Is there any kind of refund for people who have prepaid for multiple months I wonder.
ok Microsoft, decent move.
but here is how you actually make money:
* remove all sub tiers you have, and only create one: Gamepass, which works both on PC and Xbox (and whetever else you can put it in the future), have it cost 15$/m and that’s it.
* Now…i do know that it’s kinda too generous, so, end all day 1 releases, but add them after a set time, let’s say 3 months, that’s fair, people who are more patient can wait 3 more months, and the rest can purchase it.
* Gamepass subscribers get a 25% minimum discount on the Xbox store for digital content, that way those that want to buy right away, get the game for cheaper, you still make your sale, people pay less, everyone wins.
still wont go back.
I switched to pc to play online for free. But all I wanted was a cheap Nintendo like $20/year play online. I dont need or want the bonus games at all. Online play should be free imo, but just make it super cheap.