The dollar price of an annual Xbox subscription “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/ “> Xbox Live Gold may be about to double compared to the price of 2020, they say.
This is in line with a couple of images yet to be scanned, which reportedly show updated retail cards at a new price of $ 60 for six months of Xbox Live Gold. Before Xbox Game Studios (Microsoft) “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/microsoft/ “> Microsoft discontinued it last year, a 12-month Gold subscription was sold for the same price.
The images were posted by two different Reddit users on Thursday, who claimed to work for a large retail chain.
One user wrote: “These cards arrived today for the new 6-month cards for Xbox Live Gold. Note the price. “The other said,” I work at a certain video game store. This came with an incoming shipment. “
Currently, six months of Xbox Live Gold cost $ 40, three months cost $ 25, and a single month costs $ 10. Last year, Microsoft stopped offering 12-month subscriptions, which led to speculation that it might be planning to make changes to the service – although he insisted he didn’t have those plans.
VGC has contacted Microsoft for comment and will update this story when we receive a response.
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Gold also offers subscriber benefits, such as purchase discounts and free monthly games that can be maintained permanently.
In 2019, Microsoft started adding Gold with its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the form of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which costs $ 14.99 / £ 10.99 per month and features games on demand and access to EA Play.
It is possible that the company is planning to include some of the Ultimate features in Gold as part of a price increase, but Microsoft has not suggested that it plans to do so.
In March 2020, Microsoft stated that there were about 90 million active Xbox Live users and Game Pass subscribers exceeded 10 million. In November, he claimed that 70% of people who purchased the Xbox Series X and S at launch had a Game Pass subscription.
Although the platform holder no longer officially offers an annual Xbox Live Gold subscription option, one- and three-month subscriptions are still available.
“At the moment, Xbox has decided to remove the 12-month Xbox Live Gold SKU from the Microsoft online Store,” a company spokesman told VGC last August when asked about the change. “Customers can still sign up for a 1 or 3 month Xbox Live Gold subscription online through the Microsoft Store.”