XBOX Game Pass Standard is finally here, and alongside it, a huge number of games are being removed from players’ libraries.
From September 18, 2024, Xbox Game Pass for Console subscribers are having their rolling subscriptions automatically switched over to Xbox Game Pass Standard.
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People can no longer purchase Game Pass for Console subscriptions and once their current membership runs out, they’ll have to either change to Standard or upgrade to Ultimate.
Fans are furious about the change, as console players will lose access to more than 40 recent releases.
Not only does the list of games include releases from the last 12 months but some older big titles like Diablo 4 are also on the chopping block.
Other big games, like Starfield, Hellblade 2, Kunitsu-gami, Persona 3 Reload, and Valorant, will also be leaving.
Xbox has said that these releases could be added to the Standard plan eventually, but that it will likely be more than 12 months later.
However, the company has also said that some titles will likely never make the switch.
While Standard no longer includes these 43 games, it does include online play. But those who enjoy single-player adventures are losing out big in the change.
Standard is more expensive than the Console tier, increasing in price from £8.99/$10.99 to £10.99/$14.99.
Those who enjoy recent releases will have to upgrade to the Ultimate tier, which now costs a whopping £14.99/$19.99.
If you’re unclear about which tier you should go for, here are the 43 games leaving Xbox Game Pass Standard, as well as two upcoming games that won’t be added to the service’s newest tier:
- Still Wakes the Deep
- Another Crab’s Treasure
- Botany Manor
- Flock
- Core Keeper
- Forza Motorsport
- Lightyear Frontier
- Flintlock: Siege of Dawn
- Little Kitty, Big City
- Harold Halibut
- Hauntii
- Heavy Weapon
- Dungeons of Hinterberg
- Kunitsu-gami: Path of the Goddess
- Creatures of Ava
- Star Trucker
- Humanity
- Slime Rancher 2
- SpiderHeck
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Robin Hood – Sherwood Builders
- Rolling Hills: Make Sushi, Make Friends
- Sea of Solitude
- Age of Mythology: Retold
- Open Roads
- Payday 3
- PlateUp!
- Persona 3 Reload
- Train Sim World 5
- MLB The Show 24
- Diablo 4
- Starfield
- Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
- Galacticare
- Go Mecha Ball
- Neon White
- Octopath Traveller 2
- Tchia
- The Case of the Golden Idol
- The Rewinder
- Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
- Valorant
- You Suck at Parking
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 *upcoming
- Indiana Jones & The Great Circle *upcoming
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