Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month, Ultimate gets Ubisoft+ Classics and more

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Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire

Introducing the new upgrades to Xbox Game Pass, including Essential, Premium and Ultimate. Details inside.
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More Games Join Xbox Game Pass Today


We continue to add more games to Xbox Game Pass. Check out the latest games available starting today below, along with in-game benefits available across each plan. As a reminder, game titles, features, and availability vary over time, by region, Game Pass plan, and platform. Learn more about supported regions here.




Ultimate – Available Today


  • Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed II (PC)
  • Assassin's Creed III Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag: Freedom Cry (PC)
  • Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PC)
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed Liberation HD (PC)
  • Assassin's Creed Revelations (PC)
  • Assassin's Creed Rogue Remastered (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed The Ezio Collection (Cloud and Console)
  • Assassin's Creed Unity (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Child of Light (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry 3 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Far Cry Primal (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Hungry Shark World (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Monopoly Madness (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Monopoly 2024 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • OddBallers (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Prince of Persia The Lost Crown (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show (Cloud and Console)
  • Rabbids: Party of Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Rayman Legends (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Risk Urban Assault (Cloud and Console)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Skull and Bones (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • South Park: The Stick of Truth (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Starlink: Battle for Atlas (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Steep (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • The Crew 2 (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • The Settlers: New Allies (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Tom Clancy's The Division (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trackmania Turbo (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Transference (Cloud and Console)
  • Trials Fusion (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trials of the Blood Dragon (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Trials Rising (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Uno (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Watch_Dogs (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Wheel of Fortune (Cloud and Console)
  • Zombi (Cloud, PC, and Console)

Premium – Available Today (also in Ultimate)


  • 9 Kings (Game Preview) (PC)
  • Abiotic Factor (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Against the Storm (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (PC)
  • Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (PC)
  • Age of Mythology: Retold (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Ara: History Untold (PC)
  • Arx Fatalis (PC)
  • Back to the Dawn (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Battletech (PC)
  • Blacksmith Master (Game Preview) (PC)
  • Cataclismo (PC)
  • Cities: Skylines II (PC)
  • Crime Scene Cleaner (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Diablo (PC)
  • Diablo IV (PC and Console)
  • An Elder Scrolls Legends: Battlespire (PC)
  • The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard (PC)
  • Fallout (PC)
  • Fallout 2 (PC)
  • Fallout: Tactics (PC)
  • Football Manager 2024 (PC)
  • Frostpunk 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Halo: Spartan Strike (PC)
  • Hogwarts Legacy (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Manor Lords (Game Preview) (PC)
  • Minami Lane (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Minecraft: Java Edition (PC)
  • Mullet Madjack (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • My Friendly Neighborhood (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • One Lonely Outpost (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Quake 4 (PC)
  • Quake III Arena (PC)
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein (PC)
  • Rise of Nations: Extended Edition (PC)
  • Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Sworn (Cloud, PC, and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Terra Invicta (Game Preview) (PC)
  • Volcano Princess (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Warcraft I: Remastered (PC)
  • Warcraft II: Remastered (PC)
  • Warcraft III: Reforged (PC)
  • Wolfenstein 3D (PC)

Essential – Available Today (also in Ultimate and Premium)


  • Cities: Skylines Remastered (Cloud and Xbox Series X|S)
  • Disney Dreamlight Valley (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Hades (Cloud, PC, and Console)
  • Warhammer 40,000 Darktide (Cloud, PC, and Console)



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Wait, so a 100% increment in 8 years? Living in a country where you get 200% in a year, that's not that bad.

Prices also increased in Argentina, Ultimate is now AR$ 24999 which is like 17 dollars plus taxes (an extra 4 or so). Average income is much lower, though, maybe 500 dollars per month.
 
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It's clear by now that they're killing the console.

But instead of doing it harmlessly, they're trying to milk the last Xbox gamers as much as possible (also damaging the brand, but at this point I think Microsoft doesn't care about the Xbox brand and in a few years they'll rename Xbox Game Pass to Microsoft Game Pass).
 
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Burger King said:
It's clear by now that they're killing the console.

But instead of doing it harmlessly, they're trying to milk the last Xbox gamers as much as possible (also damaging the brand, but at this point I think Microsoft doesn't care about the Xbox brand and in a few years they'll rename Xbox Game Pass to Microsoft Game Pass).
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I don't think gamepass will exist on a few years. I think they're milking it now, tanking the brand, and will just sell game à la carte only again.

I bet the next Xbox launches and Gamepass will be dead in the way we know it. It will be a copy of PS+ and they will not offer day one releases anymore.
 
Nydius said:
PC gamers breathing a sigh of relief because the PC Game Pass only (lol) went up ~40% should keep in mind that Microsoft made a conscientious effort to not put that plan in their chart and keep it hidden. The exact same way they did with Console Game Pass just before they sunset it and told console players they'd have to choose between Standard or Ultimate.

The writing is on the wall for PC Game Pass, same as it was for Console Game Pass. Eventually you'll be forced into Ultimate for Day Ones, just like console. They're just slowly boiling the old frog.
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Of course PC Gamepass will go up in price. It has to, if Xbox on PC is the future of Xbox and true Xbox consoles are discarded. Ultimately MS will want to earn just as much from those Gamepass PC subscribers as they now make from Xbox console users.
 
I'm only surprised they've jacked up to 30 in one hit.

I'm not surprised we're at this point. And it's going to be rough going since I think the best of the Microsoft schedule is behind us. Brand is bbq FRIED going into "next gen".
 
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Get some cheap codes and convert them ASAP. I am aware coversion rates are nowhere as good as previously. But it works out alot cheaper than paying monthly for Ultimate
 
Paying for these services yearly just isn't worth it anymore with the way these businesses use scummy tactics to lessen value and jack up prices you're better off paying 3-5 years in advance to these sub services to lock in value.
 
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I imagine a lot more people will do that now instead of staying subscribed year around. Which makes it increasing odd that MS still doesn't offer a discounted annual option.
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I honestly have no idea why they don't. Feels like an absolute no-brainer considering their retention issues.
 
DeepEnigma said:
All the biggest corporate knob-slobbing shills trying to now "save face" and jump on the meme bandwagon when they were in part responsible for that evangelical energy and hubris to get them (MS/Xbox) where they are today.

While funny, piss off, posers.
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I wouldn't mind it, if they'd stay this way. But knowing they'll be shilling for Xbox again in 2 weeks is what pisses me off.
 
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