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Beat the terms hike, for present astatine least.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate's terms is rising a tremendous 50% successful the US, up from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. That's an other $120 per year, effectual immediately, and a lot of other currency you request to find successful bid to support what utilized to beryllium the champion woody successful gaming around. Yeesh!
If you privation to bushed the terms hike, your champion enactment is to stack your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate rank to its bounds (36 months) portion the alteration isn't yet enforced astatine retailers similar Amazon. Or... cancel your subscription altogether. I'm not your boss.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate
Amazon inactive has one-month codes disposable for $19.99, which is present efficaciously a $10 discount.
You tin besides acquisition three-month codes astatine efficaciously the aforesaid rate, $59.99 each. It's the aforesaid successful the UK, for now, with three-month codes listed for £44.99 alternatively of the caller prices, £22.99 a month, oregon £68.99 for 3 months.
The max you tin capable retired your relationship with is 12, which successful the US costs $719.88 successful full ($239.96 per year). Now that's a lot, and I'm ne'er going to urge you abruptly ammunition retired implicit $700 connected a subscription service, surely not successful this economy. But it's inactive worthy being honorable astir the numbers and however overmuch it does outgo to debar a terms hike by paying upfront portion you can.
Comparatively, astatine the caller rate, 3 years of Game Pass Ultimate volition present outgo $1,079.64 if paying the caller $29.99 complaint monthly.
Buying successful present (i.e. paying $719.88 to stack codes) does prevention a full of $359.76 (effectively astir an other twelvemonth covered), yet it's improbable immoderate of america volition privation to wage truthful overmuch for a work that's conscionable wacked its prices up (again, and past again).
If anything, this is conscionable bully to cognize if you privation to screen yourself for adjacent conscionable the adjacent 12 months, paying $239.96 alternatively of $359.88.
Xbox Game Pass Tier and Price Changes, October 2025:
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: $29.99 a month, up from $19.99 a month
- Xbox Game Pass Premium: $14.99 a month, the aforesaid arsenic the aged Standard subscription
- Xbox Game Pass Essential: $9.99 a month, the aforesaid arsenic the aged Core subscription
- PC Game Pass: $16.49 a month, up from $11.99
The updated pricing goes into effect today, October 1 for caller subscribers, and November 4 for existent subscribers.
As portion of the announcement, Microsoft added much than 45 caller games to Game Pass. Check retired the afloat database here.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.
Originally posted:
Oct 1, 2025 2:51 pm
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