Overall, Xbox Live Gold certainly seems like a more valuable service than Microsoft’s separate Xbox Game Pass subscription, which costs $10 per month. RELATED: Xbox Game Pass: How It Works, Cost, and Games List
If you plan on sticking with it for the long haul, the yearly subscription is the best deal-although you can’t cancel it and get your money back during the year you’ve paid for. When purchased from Microsoft, Xbox Live Gold costs $10 per month, $25 per three months ($8.33 per month), or $60 per year ($5 per month). You’ll need to sign up for the paid subscription instead. However, there’s no simple way to get a trial if your console doesn’t offer one to you and you don’t have a prepaid code. You may see a “Try Gold For Free” promotion for some free Xbox Live Gold time on your console, or you may have received a prepaid code you can redeem for trail time bundled with a game or console. If you’re still on the fence, Microsoft sometimes offers free trials of Xbox Live Gold with new consoles and some games.
If you primarily buy used physical games, those may be cheaper on sale than the deals you’ll find through Games With Gold.
Sales are also nice, but only if you actually end up buying the older digital games that are on sale. However, you’re limited to the handful of games Microsoft chooses for you. Microsoft does offer quite a few games through Games With Gold, and you can get access to a steady stream of games to play if you’re patient. The other features are designed to be a bonus. Sony’s PlayStation 4 requires its similar PlayStation Plus service for online multiplayer, and even Nintendo will soon begin charging a subscription fee for online multiplayer features on the Nintendo Switch. Every game console has started charging for this feature, so the only way to play online games for free is to switch to a PC. Xbox Live Gold is absolutely worth it if you want to play multiplayer games on your Xbox One. This is now pretty standard. Overall, the big benefit to Xbox Live Gold is the multiplayer access.
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