{"id":76063,"date":"2026-04-21T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76063"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:36:25","slug":"game-passs-price-cut-isnt-the-discount-you-think-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76063","title":{"rendered":"Game Pass&#8217;s Price Cut Isn&#8217;t The Discount You Think It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just over half a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/game-pass-price-hike-announced-now-costs-30-month-for-ultimate\/1100-6535138\/\">Microsoft announced that it was increasing the price of its highest tier of Xbox Game Pass by 50%<\/a>, with the price soaring from $20 a month to $30. Today, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/game-pass-gets-price-drop-new-call-of-duty-games-no-longer-included\/1100-6539523\/\">Xbox maker compromised on that decision<\/a> in a bid to make the subscription cheaper again, but closer inspection shows that not much has actually changed. At least, if you still plan to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/call-of-duty-black-ops-7\/\">Call of Duty<\/a> annually.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Microsoft has, with immediate effect, reduced the monthly price of Game Pass Ultimate from $30 to just $23. To compensate for that, the annual release of Call of Duty will now be excluded from the service, with each new iteration only being added to the Game Pass library approximately a year later. What the price decrease achieves is an annual saving of $84, but also the exclusion of a game that will cost $70 at launch. So if you&#8217;re still planning to jump into one of the biggest franchises in gaming on day one, and remain subscribed for the rest of Game Pass&#8217; benefits, your actual saving is just $14 annually.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Why would Microsoft give that away for seemingly nothing? Likely because the number of active Game Pass subscribers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over half a year ago, Microsoft announced that it was increasing the price of its highest tier of Xbox Game Pass by 50%, with the price soaring from $20 a month to $30. Today, the Xbox maker compromised on that decision in a bid to make the subscription cheaper again, but closer inspection shows&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76063","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\/76063"}],"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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76066,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76063\/revisions\/76066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}