{"id":44301,"date":"2026-04-14T06:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44301"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:12:44","slug":"game-pass-is-too-expensive-and-it-will-change-xbox-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44301","title":{"rendered":"Game Pass Is Too Expensive And It Will Change, Xbox CEO Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4681148-xboxsphere.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Gaming&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has herself admitted that Xbox Game Pass &#8220;has become too expensive for players&#8221; and promised that changes are coming to create a &#8220;better value equation.&#8221; This wouldn&#8217;t be a big surprise, as a report from March said Sharma might try to make Game Pass less expensive. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Game Pass has become too expensive for players, so we need a better value equation. Long term, we will evolve Game Pass into a more flexible system which will take time to test and learn around,&#8221; she said in a memo obtained by The Verge.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, Microsoft raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $30, which represented a 50% price hike. The Verge reported that the reason Microsoft raised the price was a result of adding new Call of Duty releases to Game Pass at launch. This reporting came days after Windows Central reporter Jez Corden said it&#8217;s possible Microsoft might take Call of Duty out of Game Pass beginning this year.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/game-pass-is-too-expensive-and-it-will-change-xbox-ceo-says\/1100-6539369\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Gaming&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has herself admitted that Xbox Game Pass &#8220;has become too expensive for players&#8221; and promised that changes are coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5668,3876,76,258,1541,162],"class_list":["post-44301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ceo","tag-change","tag-expensive","tag-game","tag-pass","tag-xbox","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}