Well, what a surprise! The term ‘Xbox Live’ has been around since the launch of the online service in late 2002, but according to a new Xbox update, it may be about to receive some kind of brand change.
Xbox Insiders with the latest Alpha update noticed that the capture libraries on their consoles are no longer referring to Xbox Live, opting to refer to the “Xbox network”, with several images posted as evidence online:
Notably, this follows the January news that Microsoft confirmed that free games would no longer require Xbox Live Gold in the future, and that plans were canceled to raise the price of the service.
There have been rumors in the past year on several occasions that Microsoft could choose to eliminate Xbox Live Gold entirely and make multiplayer completely free at some point, but nothing official has pointed to that so far. We will have to wait and see if this change means anything significant in the long run, but we are definitely intrigued by it!
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