Microsoft is no longer selling annual subscriptions to its Xbox Live Gold online service.<\/p>\n
According to a report from TrueAchievements<\/strong><\/a> on 17 July, the 12-month subscription option was removed from Microsoft’s online store in every territory in which it was previously available.<\/p>\n A company spokesperson later confirmed to the publication that Xbox had decided to remove the year-long Xbox Live Gold SKU from the Microsoft online store.<\/p>\n The one-month and three-month subscriptions are still available, however.<\/p>\n Xbox Live Gold provides Xbox gamers with access to online multiplayer, discounts, and monthly games.<\/p>\n At the time of writing, the 12-month subscription is currently still available for purchase from third-party vendors in South Africa – including Takealot<\/strong><\/a> at R599, and Incredible Connection<\/strong><\/a> at R819.<\/p>\n Takealot also offers three-month Xbox Live subscriptions at R249.<\/p>\n Although the spokesperson did not state why the product was being discontinued, reports have speculated that Microsoft’s newer subscription service –\u00a0 Game Pass – is set to supersede Xbox Live Gold.<\/p>\n Xbox Game Pass, which was launched back in June 2017, provides Xbox and PC gamers with access to a digital library of more than 100 titles.<\/p>\n PC-only gamers also get access to multiplayer features with the standard Xbox Game Pass for PC at R49 per month.<\/p>\n The Ultimate version of the service includes all of the benefits of Xbox Live and allows members to play the included titles on both an Xbox and PC, at a monthly price of R149.<\/p>\n Additionally, Xbox team head Phil Spencer confirmed<\/strong><\/a> last week that Xbox will bundle its Project xCloud game streaming service with Game Pass Ultimate from September.<\/p>\n This will allow members to stream and play Xbox Game Pass titles on devices which don’t have the necessary hardware to run them locally, such as a smartphone or tablet.<\/p>\n Microsoft will showcase more games coming to its next-generation console – the Xbox Series X – during a live-streamed event at 06:30 on 23 July.<\/p>\n Microsoft is no longer selling annual subscriptions to its Xbox Live Gold online service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341042,"featured_media":360599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2682,61965,65735],"class_list":["post-360573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox","tag-xbox-game-pass","tag-xbox-live-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360607,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360573\/revisions\/360607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Xbox Game Pass<\/h3>\n
Now read: Microsoft discontinues Xbox One X and Xbox One S digital edition<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"