Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live Gold Price Increase Reportedly Coming Soon

✖ A new Xbox report claims that Microsoft is planning to get rid of Xbox Live Gold in favor of making Xbox Game Pass Ultimate -- the $15 version of Xbox Game Pass, which bundles in Xbox Live Gold -- the base tier of Xbox Game Pass and the only way to subscribe to Xbox Live Gold. What does this mean? Well, it means the $15 version of Xbox Game Pass will become the cheapest tier, replacing the current $10 tier. Meanwhile, Xbox Live Gold access would increase from $5 a month to $15 a month.

The report comes the way of Xbox insider and journalist, Brad Sams, who claims Microsoft is aiming to combine the two subscription services into one service. To this end, Sams suggests this could all happen when Xbox's pricey acquisition of Activision Blizzard is completed. "I've heard that Microsoft is contemplating figuring out how to raise the price of these services [Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass] to include Gold so that $15 per month is the new baseline, meaning you get Game Pass and you also get Xbox Live Gold, and that's the only tier," said Sams via Pure Xbox.

For now, this is the extent of the report, which, of course, should be taken with a grain of salt. Even if everything here is accurate, it's also subject to change, but it lines up with rumblings that we've heard, which is that Microsoft isn't sure what to do with Xbox Live Gold and has been exploring ways to increase the price of Xbox Game Pass. It would make sense for the solutions to both of these problems to be a single shared solution.

0commentsAt the moment of publishing, Microsoft has not addressed this report and the speculation it has created. For a variety of reasons, we don't anticipate this changing, but if it does, we will be sure to update the story accordingly. In the meantime, and as always, feel free to share your thoughts and hot-takes in the comments section or, alternatively, hit me up on Twitter @Tyler_Fischer_ and let me know over there.

Guess I won’t be playing Xbox anymore.

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