The long-awaited changes to Microsoft’s subscription services have arrived, but PC is mostly safe.
PC Game Pass will get a $2 price increase starting from September 12, as Microsoft rejigs its subscription services to “address changing market conditions”. That means the $9.99 per month subscription for PC Game Pass subscribers will rise to $11.99, but things are a little more complicated—and less favourable—for our console friends.
Most notable is a new Xbox Game Pass tier which kills off one of the subscription service’s biggest selling points: day one first-party Microsoft releases. The new tier is called Xbox Game Pass Standard, and in Microsoft’s words will offer “hundreds of high-quality games to play on your console”, in addition to access to console multiplayer (yes, console users are still paying for multiplayer).
