Xbox Game Pass also with Gold?

Does the Xbox Game Pass also come with Xbox Gold as long as you selected the game pass for? The thumbnail for the Xbox Game Pass has a "Gold" sign on it and it says nothing about Xbox Gold

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It is on Xbox Game Pass. The free play days with Gold has ended. Game Pass

 

Game Pass is also developer-friendly and replaces GameStop

Which everyone already knows. Everyone knows how new games are purchased, and how games are sold online and digitally after release, and how people trade in and others buy them used, except developers are giving places like GameStop cut of money to sell new, and GameStop gives nothing to devs on used sales, but not with Game Pass (and other Game Pass like services)

We've seen developers speak about giving their games away for free and creating a buzz with free marketing. They get the game in hands of people who likely wouldn't have bought it anyway, and their friends see them playing it, and their friends go buy it, so now you got 2 people playing, likely streaming it, and now the game is exposed to a world of people.

With the game in Game Pass, they get all the benefits of exposure to new people, without having to give the game away for free, which is great for indies. They also don't have to put their game on sale to get more users playing. If you think about it, Game Pass is not only consumer-friendly, but also developer-friendly, because many games can offer the base for free and charge for DLC. I believe DLC became popular because people were buying used games and devs weren't making money, Game Pass replaces the system that is used games and is perfect for old games who need a jolt.

The only people Game Pass isn't friendly to is stores like GameStop, but we aren't here for them, they are a cog we don't need anymore, and are replaceable with Game Pass and EA Access. Why buy any game used if its on these services. Now that PS Now is doing download on PS4 and EA is doing Premier on PC, we don't need GameStop anymore, Walmart/Bestbuy/Amazon can sell us our consoles, TVs, and games.


What things do you see Game Pass doing for gaming? Do you think this was something the industry needed?

 

Hey SeekNDestroy,

Those are both two sperate subscriptions. You have your standard Xbox Live Gold Subscription and then you have your Xbox Game Pass Subscription.

Info on Xbox Live Gold: Xbox Live Gold | Xbox

Info on Xbox Game Pass: Xbox Game Pass FAQ

Best,

Nozzle

 

It would be a good idea for Microsoft to launch an Xbox Live + Game Pass package, with different periods: 1 month, 6 months, and 1 year.

 

If they did that I’d subscribe to GP too.

 

No, they are 2 diferent subscriptions, but is a good idea. You can submit the idea here: Xbox Ideas, powered by UserVoice