Classic Xbox LIVE Gold membership will be replaced in September and Games with Gold will be retired.
Xbox LIVE has dominated the online Xbox landscape since 2002, but that’s about to end. According to current reports, from September 14th Xbox Live Gold canceled and replaced with Xbox Game Pass Core.
If you want to continue playing online, you will need the core membership from this point onwards, which is said to be available at the unchanged price of $9.99 a month, or more precisely $59.99 a year.
As the Games with Gold program will also end at this date, subscribers will receive more than 25 Game Pass titles such as DOOM Eternal, Fable Anniversary, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 or Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. Games purchased as part of the Gold membership will of course remain your property. Discounts on purchases for members are also planned.
Microsoft has structured the new plans as follows:
CORE
- Online multiplayer on console
- Catalog with over 25 high quality games on console
- Offers and discounts for members
CONSOLE
- Hundreds of high quality games on console
- New games from the release day
- Offers and discounts for members
personal computer
- Hundreds of high quality games on PC
- New games from the release day
- Offers and discounts for members
- EA Play Membership
ULTIMATE
- Hundreds of high-quality games on console, PC and in the cloud
- New games from the release day
- Perks, offers and discounts for members
- Online multiplayer on console
- EA Play Membership
Here is an overview of the most important changes:
- On September 14th, Xbox Live Gold members will automatically become Game Pass Core members with no change in pricing and have instant access to a new library of over 25 high-quality games.
- Member offers and discounts will also be part of Xbox Game Pass Core.
- Games with Gold will be phased out on September 1st.
- Players can continue to access any Xbox One games they previously redeemed through Games with Gold if they remain a Game Pass Core or Game Pass Ultimate member.
- Regardless of subscription status, any Xbox 360 titles previously purchased through Games with Gold will remain in the player’s library.
Further information is available here.
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