Help a grandma please

Xbox Gold is needed to use multiplayer features. With this your grandchild can play games online with his friends and other players of the Xbox community. With game pass he gets access to a variety of games. So he can download and play those games without
buying them. The advantage of this is that he can play a lot of games for a monthly fee (the game pass). You just need to be aware, that if he unsubscribes from game pass he couldn´t play those games anymore after the paid subscription ends.

Best is to test the gamepass (in europe you get the first month for 1€).

That's correct. If he needs Gold and Game Pass, getting the Game Pass Ultimate will get you sorted

There are three different subscriptions.

1. Gold- This would allow your Grandson to play online multiplayer games and chat with his friends online.

2. Game Pass- This is like Netflix for gaming their are certain games that are on a list that will allow your grandson to download and play these games as long as he has an active subscription and as long as they are still on the list. This list is updated
periodically where some games are added and some are taken off of the list. Not all games that are available for the console are in this list.

3. Ultimate game pass- This subscription is a combination of the two subscriptions above.

All of these subscriptions are optional and are not required for your grandson to play on the system they each have their own thing that they do.

Thanks for your reply

so if he wants game pass + gold i need to get both or the ultimate game pass is that correct ?

In Gamepass and Gamepass Ultimate is XBOX Live Gold included. If you want Gamepass or Gamepass Ultimate, you must buy this subscription too.