Xbox Game Pass Core subscribers will get access to a small selection of the games available with the regular/higher tiers of Game Pass, starting with more than 25 games, including:

Among Us

Descenders

Dishonored 2

Doom Eternal

Fable Anniversary

Fallout 4

Fallout 76

Forza Horizon 4

Gears 5

Grounded

Halo 5: Guardians

Halo Wars 2

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Human Fall Flat

Inside

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Psychonauts 2

State of Decay 2

The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

Games you've already acquired from Games with Gold will still be available as long as you've got Xbox Game Pass Core.

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[–] InverseParallax 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't play Xbox, but this is just stupid.

A: $1 more for "hundreds of games including day one"? Wtf is the point then?

2: why in the name of Homer J Fuck would you not put the MCC on there just on principle?!

[–] DexGW 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On your first point, this is a standard upsell which will easily get people up to the second tier. After that they can start increasing the prices and bridging the gap in cost once they have onboarded as many people as possible.

[–] InverseParallax 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A $1 up sell? Really? That just seems like a waste, they should drop core to $6.99 and pop the next level to $11.99 or so, that dollar just looks stupid.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$1 extra each month is nothing for you, but $1 extra from hundreds of thousands of subscribers each month is a lot of money and is exactly the point of the upsell strategy. Make the first tier undesirable so no one will want it.

[–] Tar_alcaran 5 points 1 year ago

This is exactly why every fastfood place has at least 3 sizes of cups. If you have 2 sizes, small and large, nobody will buy large. Rename "large" to "medium" and add a third size, and people will buy a lot more "medium" sizes.

[–] nivenkos 0 points 1 year ago

But then they ramp the difference up to $10 once everyone is subscribed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Game Pass for console doesn't have online play. Core looks to essentially be Xbox Live, but with a small game library instead of Games With Gold.

[–] simple 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a $1 difference between getting 25 games and the entire game pass library? They really want to boost their subscriber counts huh.

[–] Voytrekk 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The $11 version doesn't have multiplayer though. The two are not similar, which makes this a bit more confusing.

[–] dan1101 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not cool. I'm old enough that I refuse to pay for multiplayer.

[–] rockyrikoko 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I stopped playing video games altogether about 10 years ago due to all this. I'm not interested in playing games under these terms

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Games you acquired with games with gold will require a subscription? That must be a mistype

[–] debunker 17 points 1 year ago

Xbox 360 games were yours to keep forever, Xbox one and later are as long as your sub is active IIRC.

[–] Silentrizz 3 points 1 year ago

Thought this has always been the case

[–] ABCDE 3 points 1 year ago

Making it even more needlessly complicated like PS+ (or whatever it is these days).

[–] SamXavia 2 points 1 year ago

Guess least there should be less confusion on what to buy and what you get but really seems like they want to give away games at this stage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this is a done deal then?

Well, I guess. Do we get to keep the games that we had under Games with Gold, or is it just limited to those twenty-five titles?

[–] WhiskeyPapaTango 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You keep them as long as you remain subscribed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the fuck.

[–] NOT_RICK 3 points 1 year ago

It’s been that way since XB1 games came to GWG. It was only 360 games that get added to your account as if you own them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Fine by me.