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How to avoid the Xbox Game Pass price increase – for a while at least


Let's keep your cash in your pocket rather than the bank accounts of the mega corporations for as long as possible shall we?

We covered yesterday the caveats of some of the price rises and how the system is tiered to extract the maximum amount of money out of subscribers, especially those in a family home with more than one gamer sitting around the table, have a read of that if you want our take. So for example, if you are a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber you can stack up to 36 months of payment in advance by purchasing subscription cards and adding them to your account. So say you were to buy three years worth of membership – which you can often do quite cheaply compared to the monthly fee – you could freeze your price at the current rate for that period of time.

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