In the recent “Giant Bomb” YouTube channel program, Jeff Grubb, the author and game designer who participated in the game design of “Guild Wars Nightfall” and assisted in the battle setting of the “Dragon Gun” series of novels, once again mentioned Microsoft In the future, the Xbox Live Gold subscription service will be cancelled and replaced by the Xbox Game Pass service.
The same view, Jeff Grubb actually mentioned last year, the reason is that in the past you had to rely on subscribing to the Xbox Live Gold service to use the multiplayer connection function. It has been opened by Microsoft and can be played without subscribing to the Xbox Live Gold service. Basic free to play game content, and you can even directly use the cross-platform connection play function with other game consoles, so the original Xbox Live Gold service subscription demand is greatly reduced.
In addition to the free games and additional discounts that were originally obtained by subscribing to the Xbox Live Gold service, it is currently losing its advantage with the emergence of the Xbox Game Pass service, making the need for the Xbox Live Gold service less and less.
Therefore, in Jeff Grubb’s view, he believes that the Xbox Live Gold service will inevitably be replaced by the Xbox Game Pass service in the future.
As for the reasons why Microsoft still provides the Xbox Live Gold service, there are some situations and there are still many current users. If these players gradually migrate to subscribe to the Xbox Game Pass service, Microsoft will definitely cancel the Xbox Live Gold service completely.
Prior to this, Microsoft has adjusted the original Xbox Live service name to Xbox network, but still maintains the Xbox Live Gold service and operates simultaneously with the Xbox Game Pass service. However, judging from the content announced at E3 2021 this year, among the 31 game works announced before and after, almost every game will be on the Xbox Game Pass service, which means that Microsoft will focus more on the layout of this service in the future to allow users More willing to use game content through monthly subscription.
Microsoft has not made any response to this statement, but the market does believe that the continued promotion of the monthly subscription usage model and the strengthening of the promotion of streaming game services will indeed change the traditional game habits.
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