Only if you are currently subscribed to Game Pass for Console, a plan that was discontinued in 2024 and is no longer available for new subscribers. (The former Game Pass for Console plan had day one releases but lacked online multiplayer).
Only if you are currently subscribed to Game Pass for Console, a plan that was discontinued in 2024 and is no longer available for new subscribers. (The former Game Pass for Console plan had day one releases but lacked online multiplayer).
This is not a “loophole”, but normal business. Game Pass is not the only service who keep the old contract for current subscribers. This way people think twice if they cancel, because they would “loose” the cheaper price and day one releases and so on, its the same contract as before, which is a huge difference to the new.
Usually this sort of contract only applies for the term of the subscription, and then the company can change whatever they like at the end of that term.
The article even specifies that the grandfathered plan only continues to exist because Microsoft is “allowing” it.
So I get what you are saying, but in this specific case, there is no legal reason why Microsoft could not force current subscribers to move to one of the new, more expensive plans. They are just being nice to some of their most loyal users, for some reason.