Microsoft’s long-running introductory supply for its Xbox Game Pass subscription platform, which let customers strive the service out for $1 for the primary month earlier than shifting onto dearer funds, has lastly come to a detailed.
As The Verge report, the deal—which utilized to each Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and the PC Game Pass—has not too long ago been pulled, with a Microsoft spokesperson saying “We have stopped our previous introductory offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass and are evaluating different marketing promotions for new members in the future”.
What these “different marketing promotions” could possibly be is anybody’s guess, although given the entire level of the $1 deal was get new customers on the hook, a pure successor may simply be the Xbox Game Pass Friends and Family scheme, which whereas nonetheless unavailable within the US has been examined in a quantity of worldwide markets since late 2022.
Anyone signed up for Game Pass will see months from present subscriptions transformed into partial months on the sharing plan. If you’re presently signed up for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, each remaining month will flip into 18 days of Game Pass Friends and Family. Those signed up for the piecemeal tiers will see their subscriptions convert into 12 days of Game Pass Friends and Family.
There are some limitations, nonetheless. If you’re the account holder, you’ll be able to solely have 4 further folks on an account at any given time, and may solely share with eight distinctive accounts over the course of a calendar 12 months. And it’s region-locked: The major account holder can solely add members who stay in the identical nation or area.
While that’s not a 1:1 alternative for the $1 supply, which was only a whole lot for anybody, it does imply of us recommending Xbox Game Pass to mates or household would have a reasonably simple solution to get them onboard through their very own account.
It sucks to see the $1 deal go away, since I’m positive many/most of you took benefit of it, however should you weren’t prepared for the time Xbox determined to begin doing stuff like this, you haven’t been paying sufficient consideration to TV and sports activities over the past 5 years.
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