Xbox has reduced the monthly price of Game Pass Ultimate from $29.99 to $22.99. PC Game Pass has been lowered from $16.49 to $13.99. Both changes took effect on April 21, 2026. This follows an October 2025 increase to the previous higher rate and a recent internal acknowledgment that the service had become too expensive.

Future Call of Duty titles will no longer arrive on Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. They will instead be added approximately one year later during the following holiday season. Existing Call of Duty games already in the library remain available. The adjustment arrives after the Activision integration experiment, which added recent CoD entries on day one, failed to deliver a significant subscriber increase.

The price reduction responds to player feedback across regions and preferences, according to the Xbox team. In practice this represents a modest quarterly earnings adjustment dressed up as listening. The loss of timely CoD access for subscribers seeking the franchise's annual release is noted in the metrics. This quarter's subscriber growth projections were... mildly disappointing... in a soul-crushing way.