Report: EA Was the Reason Microsoft Decided to Stop the Game Pass Friends & Family Subscription
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While it was considered a few years ago, Microsoft has indefinitely put the development of a family plan for its Game Pass subscription service on hold. Rumors suggest that publisher EA played a major role in this cancellation. [Read more] All our articles are also on our Google profile: follow us so you don't miss anything!
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass Family Plan Was Apparently Shut Down After EA Pushback
For as long as there have been streaming services, there has been a push and pull between consumers and providers, as the former do their best to find ways to share access and the latter looks to impose obstacles to prevent it. One of the most common compromises that has arisen in the field concerns family plans. With family plans, a single membership fee lets you add multiple users. For the consumers, this allows all the members of a family to …
The Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family has already been tested in selected countries in 2022, first in Ireland and Colombia. The model allowed to share a Game Pass Ultimate membership with up to four more people. Each user should be able to play with their own Xbox profile, memory levels, own successes and recommendations. Microsoft applied quite clearly at the time as "one membership, five individual accounts". Sounds like a pretty obvious solutio…
Xbox Reporter Sheds Light On Why Game Pass Family Plan Might Have Been Cancelled
It's suggested EA had something to do with it.It's been multiple years now since Xbox teased us all with multiple tests for an Xbox Game Pass Friends & Family Plan back in 2022 and 2023, but then at the end of 2023, it was suggested that the program was being put on hiatus.In an update from Phil Spencer at the time, he advised that his team needed to find a way to make the Friends & Family offer work for both creators and players, and that there…
Report: EA is said to have played a role in stopping the Xbox Game Pass Family animal.
Report: EA was the reason Microsoft decided to stop the Game Pass Friends & Family subscription
Four years ago, Microsoft launched a trial of something they called Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Friends & Family in both Colombia and Ireland. It was a way to share a subscription with up to four other people living in the same country. This was very well received, and in 2023 it was introduced in even more countries. But... just a few months later, the program was shut down without any further explanation, and since then, there has been no family …
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