The Xbox Game Pass becomes a family subscription

Incredible news from Microsoft, which is testing an Xbox Game Pass family plan, which will allow subscribers to share their benefits with other people. At the moment, a preview of this subscription is available in Colombia and Irelandwith the possibility for testers of add up to four people on the floor, as long as they live in the same country.

Xbox Game Pass: Microsoft tests a family plan in Colombia and Ireland

“Starting today in Colombia and Ireland, Xbox Insider Program participants can start previewing a plan that allows more people to share Game Pass Ultimate benefits,” he explains. Tyler Mittler, Microsoft’s Senior Technical Program Manager. “This makes it even easier to play the best Game Pass games with friends and family on console, PC and the cloud, allowing you to add up to four people to your subscription, all with their own unique access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate games, content and benefits. “.

Credits: The Verge

Testers in Colombia or Ireland can sign up for an Xbox Insider Preview for the new subscription plan in the Microsoft Store. And this will convert the remaining time on one plan into a new plan “based on the monetary value of the old membership”. Therefore, if you have a full month of Ultimate, it will convert to an 18-day subscription on the new plan. As for the price of the family plan, in Ireland it seems to be around 21.99 € per month. From what we have seen, once subscribed the user can send an email invitation to interested persons, or generate links to share with family members. An interesting upgrade compared to the current situation. Let’s see when it will arrive in Italy.