The USD price for an annual Xbox “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/platforms/xbox/ “> Xbox Live Gold subscription may be about to double effectively compared to 2020 prices, was claimed.
This is according to some images that have not yet been verified, which allegedly show updated retail cards with a new $ 60 price tag for six months 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 amount.
The images were posted Thursday by two separate Reddit users, both of whom claim to have worked for a large retail chain.
One user wrote: ‘These cards came in today for the new 6 month cards for Xbox Live Gold. Note the price. The other said: ‘I work for a certain retailer for video games. It came with an incoming shipment. ”
Currently, six months of Xbox Live Gold cost $ 40, three months cost $ 25 and a single month is $ 10. Last year, Microsoft stopped offering 12-month subscriptions, sparking speculation that they were plan was to make changes to the service, although they insisted they did not have such plans.
VGC contacted Microsoft for comment and will update this story when we receive a response.
To date, Xbox Live Gold is required to play Xbox games online, including free game titles such as Call of Duty Warzone “href =” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/call-of-duty/call – of-duty-warzone / “> Warzone and Fortnite” href = “https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/fortnite/”> Fortnite, available for free on competing platforms.
Gold also offers subscriber benefits such as discounts on purchases and monthly free games that can be held permanently.
In 2019, Microsoft Gold began bundling its Xbox Game Pass subscription service in the form of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which includes $ 14.99 / £ 10.99 per month cost and features on demand game and access to EA Play.
It is possible that the company plans to introduce some of Ultimate’s features in Gold as part of an increased price, but Microsoft has not suggested that they plan to do so.
In March 2020, Microsoft claims that there are approximately 90 million active Xbox Live users and that the Game Pass subscribers are 10 million higher than the first. In November, it claimed that 70 percent of the people who bought 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 membership option, there are still one and three month subscriptions available.
“Right now, 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.”