{"id":45040,"date":"2026-04-17T01:49:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45040"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:49:54","slug":"microsoft-considering-these-major-changes-to-game-pass-after-ceo-said-its-too-expensive-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45040","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Considering These Major Changes To Game Pass After CEO Said It&#039;s Too Expensive- Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4683581-dead-price.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Gaming&#8217;s new CEO, Asha Sharma, has said Xbox Game Pass is &#8220;too expensive&#8221; for players, but what is she going to do about that? According to The Verge, Microsoft is kicking around a few ideas for how to shake up the Xbox Game Pass service, including by introducing a new tier that only includes first-party Xbox games made by studios that Microsoft owns.<\/p>\n<p>The Verge also published another line from Sharma&#8217;s memo to staff recently. It said Game Pass is &#8220;central to gaming value on Xbox,&#8221; but also that it&#8217;s become clear that &#8220;the current model isn&#8217;t the final one.&#8221; The memo added, &#8220;Player behavior, content economics, and markets vary too much for a single approach to work everywhere.&#8221; The other parts of the memo, which were published previously, included a mention from Sharma that she wanted to evolve Game Pass to become a &#8220;more flexible system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond a new Game Pass tier for first-party games, The Verge said Microsoft is also considering more bundling of third-party services. Currently, Game Pass Ultimate also includes subscriptions to Fortnite Crew, Ubisoft+ Classics, and EA Play. There&#8217;s no word on what other third-party services could be added to Game Pass, but Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said in March that he and Sharma had &#8220;kicked around ideas&#8221; in regards to bundling.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-considering-these-major-changes-to-game-pass-after-ceo-said-its-too-expensive-report\/1100-6539449\/?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 said Xbox Game Pass is &#8220;too expensive&#8221; for players, but what is she going to do about that?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5668,76,258,18730,1406,3576,1541,554],"class_list":["post-45040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ceo","tag-expensive","tag-game","tag-it039s","tag-major","tag-microsoft","tag-pass","tag-report","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45040","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=45040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}