Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.

Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC including current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, and major day one releases. You can find more details on Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, and PC Game Pass plans here, and manage your account here.

Our players cover a wide breadth of geographies, preferences, and tastes, so while there isn’t a single model that’s best for everyone, this change responds to a lot of feedback we’ve gotten so far. We’ll continue to listen and learn.

Thank you for being a part of the Xbox community.

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    4 months ago

    Hello, we fucked up, please resubscribe, we promise we won’t try to fuck with you again (for at least a few months).

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    4 months ago

    It’s a massive drop (7 Dollars less) for Ultimate subscribers for sure, but this is still not cheap in my books. PC subscribers have less of a drop (2.5 Dollars), but it wasn’t that expensive compared to Ultimate to begin with. And Call of Duty games won’t be added to Ultimate and PC for an entire year. That’s a lot.

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    4 months ago

    I can’t help but wonder if this was a correction, or intentional sleight of hand.

    If the last change never happened, and they just said the price goes up by $3 and COD is no longer included, would anyone be happy about that?

    Same situation, but now we’re seeing it as a $7 price drop with no COD.

    I might switch back to ultimate again, but not until there’s something in premium Gamepass that Im really interested in.

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    4 months ago

    Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous

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      4 months ago

      That was their plan all along. They tried to double the price of Gold and received a huge backlash, so they walked the change back, and then merged Gold with GamePass to raise the price again without people noticing. I don’t think there’s a chance of them going back to the old price point.

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    4 months ago

    How much was it before it was $29.99 a month? 🤔

    Looks like it was $19.99 a month until they raised it to $29.99 6 months ago.

    Still an extra $3 a month though!

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    4 months ago

    I couldn’t care less about this. I made the complete switch to Linux a few days ago. Microslop butchered the Xbox brand so bad that I don’t even want to play their games nor pay for their shitty pass anymore

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    4 months ago

    I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it’s still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.