{"id":75671,"date":"2026-04-16T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75671"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:40:20","slug":"microsoft-considering-these-major-changes-to-game-pass-after-ceo-said-its-too-expensive-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75671","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Considering These Major Changes To Game Pass After CEO Said It&#8217;s Too Expensive- Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Gaming&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has said Xbox Game Pass is &#8220;too expensive&#8221; for players, but what is she going to do about that? According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/913093\/microsoft-new-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-memo-notepad\">The Verge<\/a>, Microsoft is kicking around a few ideas for how to shake up the Xbox Game Pass service, including by introducing a new tier that only includes first-party Xbox games made by studios that Microsoft owns.<\/p>\n<p>The Verge also published another line from Sharma&#8217;s memo to staff recently. It said Game Pass is &#8220;central to gaming value on Xbox,&#8221; but also that it&#8217;s become clear that &#8220;the current model isn&#8217;t the final one.&#8221; The memo added, &#8220;Player behavior, content economics, and markets vary too much for a single approach to work everywhere.&#8221; The other parts of the memo, which were published previously, included a mention from Sharma that she wanted to evolve Game Pass to become a &#8220;more flexible system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond a new Game Pass tier for first-party games, The Verge said Microsoft is also considering more bundling of third-party services. Currently, Game Pass Ultimate also includes subscriptions to Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ Classics, and EA Play. There&#8217;s no word on what other third-party services could be added to Game Pass, but Netflix co-CEO Greg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Gaming&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has said Xbox Game Pass is &#8220;too expensive&#8221; for players, but what is she going to do about that? According to The Verge, Microsoft is kicking around a few ideas for how to shake up the Xbox Game Pass service, including by introducing a new tier that only includes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75674,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75671\/revisions\/75674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}