Microsoft has cut the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99 per month, with PC Game Pass also dropping from $16.49 to $13.99.
In the UK, Game Pass Ultimate was £22.99 per month and is now £16.99, while PC Game Pass goes from £13.49 to £10.99 per month.
Though the reduction comes alongside the removal of day-one Call of Duty access from both tiers.
Future Call of Duty titles will no longer join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch, with new entries in the series instead arriving on the service approximately one year after release during the following holiday season. This is a significant change for subscribers who joined the platform partly on the strength of Activision’s day-one catalogue commitment.
That commitment had been a central selling point for Game Pass following Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023, with day-one Call of Duty access repeatedly cited by Microsoft as a key benefit of the subscription tier during the period surrounding regulatory approval of the deal.
Existing Call of Duty titles already available within the Game Pass library will remain accessible to subscribers, meaning the change applies only to future releases rather than retrospectively removing content already on the service.
Game Pass Ultimate subscribers retain access to hundreds of titles across Xbox console and PC, alongside in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, unlimited Xbox Cloud Gaming, and day-one releases from other franchises outside the Call of Duty series.
Microsoft framed the pricing adjustment as a response to subscriber feedback, acknowledging that no single model suits all players across the platform’s broad geographic and demographic spread, without providing specific figures on subscriber numbers or the scale of feedback that prompted the change.
The price reduction takes effect immediately, with Microsoft noting that regional pricing variations may apply, and subscribers can manage their accounts or review the full breakdown of Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Essential, Game Pass Premium, and PC Game Pass tiers through Xbox’s official support pages.
The Game Pass price reduction arrives alongside a busy month for the service’s catalogue, and we have rounded up every game joining Xbox Game Pass this month, including the full release schedule and the titles leaving the service on 30 April.
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