Xbox LIVE Gold for free with Xbox Game Pass?

It seems that a new offer is coming from Microsoft!

[Vasto]

If Microsoft are now offering Live with Game Pass its going to be huge.

[Eonjay]

It's a one month promotion but don't be surprised if the do a discount if you buy both like the did with EA Access and Live.

[Vasto]

Yea, I know right now its 1 month but maybe this is a sign of things to come.

[badz149]

nope. not gonna happen. the only thing keeping the Xbox division alive is the Gold subscription. there's no way they are going to give that up

[Vasto]

You cant say something wont happen. You are not Phil Spencer or Satya Nadella.

They are not giving up anything. The question is how much would the subs increase by combining both. Only Microsoft would know that.

If people would have said a year ago that Microsoft would have a digital service for $9.99 a month that would give you all 1st party games day 1 and over 100 3rd party games everybody would have said no way.

Xbox Live is the only thing keeping Xbox Division alive. /SMH

[DarXyde]

It's one month. And I seriously doubt that will become standard. Microsoft makes a pretty healthy killing on gold subscriptions, so I don't see them giving up profits for install base. The only way I see this working is if they go all digital for first party titles to maximize profit elsewhere, basically establish pay to win practices in games, or a combination of both.

Microsoft is pretty heavy handed with underperforming studios, so why risk downsizing Xbox over long term Gold subscriptions? It doesn't make fiscal sense.

[blacktiger]

That's impossible, otherwise less money for all. Subscription is not always good, don't believe me ask Netflix how much profit margin they making, It's bad! They still got long road, so how they going to combine Netflix and Network subscriptions?

Remember video games super expensive! I'm talking triple A games

[Pantz]

More fake news from resetera, move along

[jokerisalive]

MS are greedy and would never give gold for free long term its just to promoteGame Pass ......nice for a month but then you have to pay for both to have both.

[DillyDilly]

If Microsoft is greedy for this what does that say about Sony with free online for the PS3 only to start charging on the PS4

[SirBradders]

Free online for 10 years is not greedy. Ps4 online services have gradually improved with ps+ offering free games long before MS. I can see where the greed truly sits.

The game pass / gold is for one month which still charges you after that month which many people forgot.

[Eonjay]

Microsoft is greedy and so is Sony and Nintendo. Let's support our platform of choice while being smart enough to see through these corporations. We are all consumers first.

[StormSnooper]

Logically, it says that Sony is less greedy. Not sure how you got something different. Just saying.

[letsa_go]

Yes, thanks to microsoft, we have to pay for something that should be free. I mean, xbox live is free for pc users, why not for consoles? Microsoft has a habit of setting the worst trends in gaming. Now they are pushing GAAS and microtransactions, which is destroying this generation. Sooo...yay microsoft?

[FGHFGHFGH]

@ letsa_go

A microsoft exec said they want to monetize every aspect of gaming. Which is where microtransactions come in i guess. It's even named after them

[jokerisalive]

ms was charging for online last gen too. sony just started this gen.

[The_Jackel]

it still says ms was greedy for a fair few years by making people pay for gold and not giving any monthly games at all...

[Prince_TFK]

@SirBradders

Excuses for everything when it comes to Sony huh? Sony can take your child away and you could still find an excuse for them.

[WOLFofWALLSTREET]

Would have been nice if true.

[KickSpinFilter]

Ah nuts that would have been a killer deal

[Wikkid666]

I can picture a combo package deal coming.

[KickSpinFilter]

That would be sweet with a discount. I'm sure that's an E3 announcement.

[HyperMouse]

Smart but dangerous idea if they do make it like that, that would increase the annual revenue they get from live subscribers from $80Aus a year (if you dont find a deal) to $132 a year...game pass being $11 a month...and just like Netflix the monthly fee would go up in time, Netflix has almost doubled since it was released here, the same would happen with game pass....and to force people into it all they would have to do is increase live gold costs.

[glennhkboy]

I think this is inevitable.

[DOOMZ]

It should include Gold!

[DJStotty]

could be the big news come e3

[theindiearmy]

The reward for doing the very simple Xbox Game Pass quests the last few months has been a month of Gold. So essentially I've gotten 3-4 months of Gold for the last 3-4 months of Game Pass.