There is a new tag next to your name if you own game pass ultimate. Is this only available...

Hi and thanks for reaching Microsoft Xbox gamer's community. My name is Josef.

I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Xbox user like you.

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Nope, you need to have game pass ultimate if you want to use the cloud gaming feature. It's the only game pass tier that lets you use this benefit. (Cloud gaming isn't available for owned titles, only for the titles available in game pass)

But right now the only free game that you can play without ultimate is Fortnite. Besides that you need the subscription

Gold, Game Pass for consoles, and Game Pass for PC will all still be available as separate subscriptions. So if you do not renew the Ultimate Game Pass, you can still just purchase a gold subscription on its own. The conversion is only while you are subscribe
to the Ultimate Game Pass.

Hi FrankDQ! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

Game Pass Perks are only available if you subscribe to Game Pass Ultimate, if you only have a Game Pass PC or Console subscription, you won't be able to see Perks

Please confirm here that your account has and active game pass ultimate suscription

https://account.microsoft.com/services

Cloud gaming is available only with game pass ultimate

If you decide to buy the game for your console or PC but don't want to renew your ultimate subscription
You can only play the game locally (downloaded).

But, if your question is more related to purchase the game and have game pass ultimate.

The content will be available for you in both ways

No. If you purchase just Xbox Game Pass, then you would need Xbox Game Pass Core (new name for Xbox Live Gold) to play online multiplayer. If you purchase Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, then it would cancel your Xbox Live and convert it to Game Pass Ultimate and add it on to your Game Pass Ultimate. Any remaining time will convert to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate time at a ratio of 3:2 and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of Xbox Game Pass Core or PC Game Pass will convert to 60 days of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate time.