
A premium tier known as Game Pass Ultimate includes access to both services, an on-demand cloud gaming service available on console, PC, and mobile platforms, and Xbox Live Gold subscription benefits. Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass are available as separate subscription products. The service consists of two products Xbox Game Pass for Xbox One, Series X, and Series S consoles, and PC Game Pass for PCs running Windows 10 and Windows 11. Game Pass subscribers also receive discounts on purchases of games from the service's library and their respective downloadable content (DLC). Launched on June 1, 2017, the service allows users to download and play video games for Xbox video game consoles or Microsoft Windows PCs from a rotating library, with the games remaining accessible as long as the user has an active subscription. That's an acceptable compromise for some folks-a low monthly price for access to loads of AAA and indie games-but your author is going to keep buying physical games, thanks.Game Pass is a subscription service offered by Microsoft as part of Xbox network. If you want to keep playing, you've got to keep paying into perpetuity. Of course, the downside of Game Pass on the user side of things is that you don't get to keep the titles once you end your subscription. Even when you do use Game Pass, you're just downloading a digital copy of the games it ultimately costs Microsoft very little to deploy. The tech giant is quite enthusiastic about Game Pass, and understandably so-folks aren't quick to cancel monthly subscriptions, even when they aren't using them, which means it's basically free money for Microsoft. It's possible that the end of this trial could signal the expansion of that plan Microsoft's been expanding access to its Game Pass services to many other countries, too.

The countries that can make use of the family plan include Colombia, Chile, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sweden. However, that deal isn't available yet in the US or UK, or indeed most of the world. The Verge notes that Microsoft has a " Friends & Family" plan available in a few select countries that allows a user to pay a higher monthly price-around $24/month-to share Game Pass with up to four other users.
