Is Microsoft Making Xbox Live Gold Free?

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Is Microsoft making Xbox Live Gold free on Xbox One and Xbox Series X? At the moment of publishing, it's unclear, but its speculation that's currently making the rounds within the Xbox community after Xbox recently got rid of its option to buy a yearly amount of Xbox Gold Membership via the official Xbox website. There could be a few explanations for this, including it being an error, but it has fans wondering if Microsoft is gearing up to make the service free.

Meanwhile, it's also quite possible that this has something to do with Xbox Game Pass, or more specifically, Xbox Ultimate Game Pass, which comes with not just Xbox Game Pass, but Xbox Live Gold for $15 a month. In other words, it's a premium version of Xbox Game Pass that gets you Xbox Live Gold for an additional $5 a month.

As Twitter account Cheap Ass Gamer points out, there haven't been any notable Xbox Live Gold Membership deals since Ultimate was announced. Meaning it looks like Microsoft is phasing out Xbox Live Gold in favor of making Xbox Game Pass Ultimate the standard going forward.

It's also possible this is due to the fact that a change in price is coming to Xbox Live Gold, or more specifically, a price hike.




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OccasivePosted:

ccno I'm sure they won't make it free by any chance!


You never know, NEVER know, gamepass is making enough money for them

junoPosted:

I'm sure they won't make it free by any chance!

JastyPosted:

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Olivia- Kinda disappointed in this. I was just about to buy my yearly subscription and now I cant.

I hate having to pay for one month or 3 months at a time.

Hopefully they do make it free.


Absolutely no way it'll be free.


yes its honestly impossible


I mean playing on PC is completely free as long as you own the game, games like warzone/fortnite that are free on Nintendo/PlayStation can be played without having a subscription the membership as well. I think you guys might be underestimating how many people purchase the gamepass and how much they likely make from that as well.

FawhsModsPosted:

I doubt they will make it free with the costs of running the servers and everything it doesn't make sense. Look at PSN when it was free it was outdated and had a lot of security issues now it is paid they seem to have a lot less of them and the service is much better then it was.

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Olivia- Kinda disappointed in this. I was just about to buy my yearly subscription and now I cant.

I hate having to pay for one month or 3 months at a time.

Hopefully they do make it free.


Absolutely no way it'll be free.


yes its honestly impossible

ifconfigPosted:

Olivia- Kinda disappointed in this. I was just about to buy my yearly subscription and now I cant.

I hate having to pay for one month or 3 months at a time.

Hopefully they do make it free.


Absolutely no way it'll be free.

Cessna172Posted:

I mean keeping it all in one is not a bad idea

Olivia-Posted:

Kinda disappointed in this. I was just about to buy my yearly subscription and now I cant.

I hate having to pay for one month or 3 months at a time.

Hopefully they do make it free.

OPUSPosted:

It would be awesome if they did make it free but I highly doubt they will, I am more than happy paying $15 a month for Game Pass Ultimate, to get access to games on my PC, Xbox and the gold subscription. And it has been a paid service since day one and that is more than likely not going to change anytime soon, if at all.

MushroomElmPosted:

Daniel So they are going to make Xbox Live Free and not have layers pay £40-£50 for a membership hahah i haven't heard that much bs in a long time they would loose out on so much money if they were to do that. They are always going to have people buying it no matter what the price of it cos if they wanna play online then it's needed lol so i doubt its going to be free.


Xbox has been pushing for a major thing that would cut revenue on another front: Letting people get free game upgrades from one gen to the next.

I'd be surprised if they outed it completely, but I wouldn't doubt there would be some kind of work around. Even PlayStation couldn't justify free online after so long and they bring in more cash.


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