Explain the relations between Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Live Gold. How are they related?

Question

Somebody explain to me. What is Xbox Game Pass Core and how does it work compared to the old Xbox Live Gold?

Answer 1

Replacing the former distinguished name, the Xbox Live Gold, Microsoft offers a new name: Xbox Game Pass Core. An interesting and different story is that Microsoft has also changed its business strategy regarding Xbox Live Gold; currently, it is a part of a strategy – Game Pass. Game Pass Core provides online multiplayer capabilities and some set of selected titles that Microsoft plans to refresh roughly once every calendar quarter. On the other hand, it doesn’t allow access to any single game as all the capabilities of the Game Pass. So it consists parts of the previous game featuring Xbox Live Gold and parts which were introduced recently.

Comments

So they basically doubled the price of basic gold for a whole year.
For basic Xbox live per a whole year was a $60 prepaid card with no tax (I bought them at Krogers for years for fuel points).
Now, if they get rid of the prepaid codes and can only go by the $9.99 a month X 12 months it equals 120 (not including tax rate wherever you live) and where I live it would come out to $129.70 with tax just for basic gold , now called core.  JUST FOR BASIC multiplayer access to online Internet!

So apparently the so called backlash when Microsoft announced the price hike in gold, didn't amount to nothing and Microsoft still pushed it under the rug with a disguise.  

I've paid for Xbox gold for 13 years without bitching but this is becoming fk'ing bull$h!t.

They are throwing more junk in just to say you are getting a "deal" and to "justify" charging double of what you used to get.  

Looks like I'll be buying up the $60 prepaid cards before they go away, so I'm not doubly screwed out of money.

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They doubled the price to play Online and No One is Talking about it?!!
It went from $60 or $70 a year to $120 a Year!!!!!

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So what do I need to play online? ‍♂️‍♂️

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I think you missunderstand the usage of "console", This is what we had with the normal GP without any any additional stuff. So you can buy 1 Year of Core and then only for some single months extend it to "consloe" to play GP games. After the subscription time it will be core again. So Console is an addon to core and not a separate subscription at all. This is as it was with Gold and GP (not Ultimate) for years now. That means you Gold (Core) gets not upgraded to anything else and is still active if you buy a month of "console". So for anyone who want only MP without GP, you can buy the 1-3 year core subscription for a very low price, which is/was Gold before. Later on, if you want to play some GP Games you can just buy 1 month GP console as an addon to core. After the 1 month you still have your core subsrciption.  This is exactly that, what we had for years already, it has just another confusing branding name.

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Some games you can play online with console , like halo infinite for example , depends on the game

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Hey Brad, you do not need any subscription for free to play games on xbox (or PS) like fall guys

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As a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber this is a massive fail.

1. We are losing 2 free GWG games each month which we can play whenever/forever (24 games a year)

2. Only about 3 (I think) games in the Game Pass Core Library are not already available through Game Pass Ultimate.

So we lose games and gain nothing with no reduction in the Game Pass Ultimate price to compensate... so sad.