Rumor: Xbox Live Gold Being Renamed to Xbox Game Pass Core on September 1 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 July 2023 / 11,795 Views
Microsoft appears to be renaming Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass Core and retiring the Xbox Live branding on September 1st.
Xbox Game Pass Core will be the same price as Xbox Live Gold ($9.99 per month / $59.99 per year) and have a couple of differences. It will no longer include Games with Gold and instead include over 25 Xbox Game Pass titles instead. It also includes online console multiplayer, as well as member deals and discounts.
The over 25 games included with Xbox Game Pass Core includes 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, and Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited. This list is expected to grow in the coming months.
Existing Xbox Live Gold members will be converted to Xbox Game Pass Core. Any free Games with Gold games acquired with Xbox Live Gold will remain in the user's account.
The existing Xbox Game Pass tiers - Console, PC, and Ultimate - will remain unchanged.
As always this should be treated as a rumor until an official announcement is made. The rumor comes from Xbox Info Cafe.
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Xbox Game Pass Core is pretty much identical to Xbox Live Gold, except instead of 2 Games with Gold games per month you get access to 25+ games instead.
Are they still going to sell it at $60 per year? As shown here at $9.99 per month, there's no way anybody's going to subscribe to that. For $1 more, you can get a much better offering with Game Pass console.
Apparently yes it is mentioned in the link but in Korean:
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After 21 years of creation, the term "Xbox Live" will be eliminated.
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"Xbox Live Gold" changed to "Xbox Game Pass Core" from September 1, 2023.
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In order to enjoy online multiplayer and various benefits, you must subscribe to the "Core" service.
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The price of "Core" is the same as the existing "Live Gold" price ($9.99 per month / $59.99 per year)
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All existing live gold subscribers will be converted to core subscribers.
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More than 25 Game Pass games available in "Core" service: [...]
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Games with Gold will also end on September 1st.
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Free games previously acquired with Live Gold will remain in the user's account.
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Discounts on purchases that Game Pass subscribers received also apply to "Core" subscribers.
Thanks Ryuu to have provided it in the Empire thread
So taking the idea of the now discontinued PS Plus Collection. Games with Gold offered a crap selection of games anyway.
Game Pass Ultimate is now $203.88 a year in the US (after the August price hike). The price of 3 month Game Pass U cards on CD Keys and other places has went up. Game Pass Family....canceled. The Xbox Live to GPU conversion option, gimped and when this "Core" rolls out probably gone.
When you drop 69 billion for a publisher of games, you need to start paying that off.
Bringing more games, to more people on more devices!!!
Seems to be a better value than Xbox Live Gold currently.
well the free games have been terrible for years 99.9% of the budget has gone towards gamepass. i only use gold to convert to ultimate for cheap gamepass
This is what I said in the empire thread but will also post it here :
IMO this is a missed opportunity, they should have just ended the gold annual pricing earlier and set it to 4.99/month (Same as annual pricing /12) (Unlike their previous failed attempt at just canceling the annual pricing and leaving it at $9.99) then rise it by $1 at the same time as the other tier making $5.99 (due to how long it have since the last rise for Xbox live it would have been more than justified).
Adding all Game Pass titles (or at least the 1st party) but with ads (like the rumored tier a while ago) and (1-6) months delay.
It should have instead been named "Live Pass" (truly the most outrageous miss of all).
They should have also added multiplayer in the standard Game Pass console so that all their offering have live gold benefits but just killed GwG entirely.
Now it would have been
Live Pass(ads supported game pass with release delay): 5.99
Game Pass Console: 10.99
Game Pass PC: 10.99
Game Pass Ultimate: 16.99
End of an era. -Activision buyout, Major Nelson leaving, higher Gamepass price, removal of Gold. - Lots of changes happening to shake things up.
I liked Xbox Live! Gold when I could get 4x free games, 2x being Xbox 360/Original Xbox titles, because you get to keep those even when your subscription expires.
Only incentive for me to continue Gamepass/Gold is for online multiplayer, so for me I will loose value.
