A few days before Starfield, the biggest Microsoft launch of the year, you can no longer charge £1/dollar for an Xbox Game Pass trial.
This option has been removed from Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass signup website (thank you, XGP). From now on, you only have to pay the full amount for the first month.
Microsoft recently reduced this offer from a full month at £1/$1 to just 14 days in early August. Eurogamer reached out to Microsoft for comment on the change at the time, but received no further information.
This offer is now fully retired – only reinstated by Microsoft in July.
The £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass deal has been around for a few years, and has been a popular factor driving users to Microsoft’s monthly subscriptions. However, it was temporarily removed at the end of March, just before Redfall hit PC and Xbox in May.
Of course, Xbox Game Pass allows subscribers to play Microsoft’s new titles upon release without paying full price.
However, as Starfield’s release draws nearer, and the game has emerged without the possibility of a hands-on experience for the general public, this offer has now been removed.
Interested in Starfield? To try it out, you’ll have to pay for his month of Game Pass on console (£9 a month), PC (£8 a month) or Ultimate (£13 a month). Of course, the console version costs £70.