{"id":35828,"date":"2022-08-05T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-is-testing-a-family-plan-for-xbox-game-pass\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T01:07:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T01:07:41","slug":"microsoft-is-testing-a-family-plan-for-xbox-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-is-testing-a-family-plan-for-xbox-game-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is testing a family plan for Xbox Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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, Microsoft is starting to test an Game Pass Ultimate family plan in the wild. Xbox Insiders in Colombia and Ireland can try out the new offering, which allows them to their plan, as long as they’re in the same country. Those folks will get access to all the benefits of Game Pass Ultimate, including a library of hundreds of titles for console, PC and cloud gaming.<\/p>\n

If you’re in either country, you can buy the Xbox Game Pass \u2013 Insider Preview plan from the Microsoft Store, though enrolment is limited. If you’re already a Game Pass member, the time remaining on your subscription will be converted based on its monetary value. A month of Game Pass Ultimate is worth 18 days of the family plan. Parsing things out, that suggests the family plan would cost around $25 per month if Microsoft brings it to the US, or $5 per person.<\/p>\n

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You’ll need to wait for your membership to expire before moving to a different plan. People you want to invite onto a family plan will also need to cancel an existing Game Pass subscription or wait for it to run out. alternative, they can just create a new Microsoft account. It’s worth noting that folks with an plan aren’t eligible.<\/p>\n

A family plan seems to make a lot of sense for Microsoft, which has positioned Game Pass at the heart of the Xbox business. This should help the company boost the service’s overall number of users, though it may come at the cost of losing some subscriptions in households with multiple Game Pass memberships or among groups of friends who split the price of a single plan.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Nintendo has long offered a Switch Online family plan for both the standard and . Although Sony recently , it does not yet offer any multi-person plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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, Microsoft is starting to test an Game Pass Ultimate family plan in the wild. Xbox Insiders in Colombia and Ireland can try out the new offering, which allows them to their plan, as long as they’re in the same country. Those folks will get access to all the benefits of Game Pass Ultimate, including …<\/p>\n

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