Xbox Game Pass Drops 14 Day Trial Just Before Starfield Launch
The jig's up - Microsoft knows what you lot were scheming. About two weeks before Starfield's release, the two-week Xbox Game Pass trial has been taken down, making it impossible to play Bethesda's next big RPG for just one dollar.
This isn't the first time Xbox has taken the Game Pass deal down, but its timing strongly suggests that the company wants to make the most out of anyone playing Starfield through the service. Especially since this was noticed around two weeks before Starfield's launch, meaning anyone who just got the $1 deal would have to renew it for another month to play the game at all.
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This development was spotted by Twitter user @Wario64, who shared the news that anyone planning to play Starfield for $1 will have to look elsewhere.
Microsoft keeps going back and forth on the $1 trial, as it was once much more stable - and more generous. New subscribers in late 2020 got a whooping three months for $1, later changed to a permanent deal of one month for the same price. It then scrapped this deal altogether earlier this year. It was later brought back, but changed to 14 days for $1 instead, making it less generous and not giving players as much of a chance to try out the library before the full price was taken from their accounts.
Now, even the 14-day deal is nowhere to be seen. Given Microsoft's previous behaviour, we can expect it to return later down the line, perhaps after the Starfield hype has brought in more subscribers. After all, Xbox has gone all in on its subscription service and has previously faced criticism for not adding enough big games. Now that it has one on its hands, it will certainly be trying to make the most of
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