Advertisementįor those who can't renew at the old rates, the new minimum of $120/year might seem rather steep in exchange for access to online play and a handful of selected monthly "Games With Gold" freebies. Microsoft does note that current 6-month and 12-month subscribers will be able to "renew at the current price" for the time being, though (current members will receive email notices about the new prices, and the new rates won't apply to them for at least 45 days). It's unclear if those offerings will continue, but a new annual subscription option was not mentioned in Microsoft's announcement this morning. Six months: $60, $10/month (Previously $40, $6.67/month)Ī 12-month, $60 subscription plan was officially removed from Microsoft's online store last July, but annual digital subscriptions at that $5/month rate are still currently available from a variety of retail partners.One month: $11/month (previously $10/month).The new pricing, as Microsoft unveiled this morning is as follows (or a "local market equivalent" outside the US): That's a significant increase from the recent floor of $5/month for an annual subscription. Original report, January 22: Xbox users will soon have to pay at least $10/month for the baseline Xbox Live Gold subscription needed for online play on Xbox consoles. "We messed up today and you were right to let us know," the company said in its updated announcement. (In other words, those games will finally be "free-to-play" for any Xbox user.) Exactly how that will work wasn't made clear on late Friday, but from the sound of things, this change will affect online F2P fare like Fortnite. Additionally, Microsoft went one step further and changed a long-standing service annoyance: Xbox Live Gold will soon not be required to access free-to-play games on consoles. Every price in the below article is now back to its lower, "previously" amount. Update, January 23: Hours after Microsoft announced new prices for its Xbox Live Gold subscription service, the company reversed course and decided not to change the listed prices at all.
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