Microsoft's latest Xbox Insider update notes have dropped information on a welcome change coming to subscription management on Xbox.
Currently available to Alpha Ring Xbox Insiders, users can now fully access and change their subscriptions directly from Xbox consoles. Once the feature moves to the full Xbox dashboard, everyone will be able to alter their subscription plans from within the Xbox console's settings with seemingly no limitations.
This includes changing your Xbox Game Pass plan, for example, along with the ability to turn on (and switch off) recurring billing. For a while now, users have been forced to make certain changes via logging into their Microsoft accounts on a web browser, but hopefully that'll be a thing of the past following this update.
"Subscription Management
Beginning today, you can now change your plan or update the recurring billing status directly from your console. To get started, head to Settings > Account > Subscriptions."
This is a very welcome change to how the Xbox account system works - it's always frustrating when the Subscriptions menu tells you to log into Microsoft Edge just to perform a simple task! The feature is now live for Alpha Ring Xbox Insiders, with a full Xbox release coming soon.
Are you happy to see this change? Let us know if you'll be making use of it.
[source news.xbox.com]
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@Kaloudz i dont think so, i believe you had to go onto a web browser on your phone or computer to do certain things.
@Kaloudz then again, the only thing i do with my subscriptions is buy a year of ultimate at a discount around black friday/christmas and put the code in on the console and im done with it. Rinse and repeat once a year lol
@Kaloudz indeed, and i definitely buy more games (especially digitally) that arent on game pass than if i had no game pass so i consume more content on xbox for sure. if game pass didnt exist i may have switched to playstation as my primary this generation but that service is just too good to me.
@Kaloudz yup, next few months are AWESOME! gonna get RE4 this weekend which will hold me over for a bit until ghostwire and whatever else is on game pass and then redfall comes out and will hold me over until Zelda. Ill be set.
@Kaloudz It was to a degree. You can do some things in the Subscriptions tab already, but certain actions tell you to log into Microsoft Edge instead. Hopefully this'll put an end to that.
@Kaloudz 2 and 3 remakes are awesome, and as someone who grew up in the 90s i actually NEVER played 4. So I'm in for a treat.
Nice. Subscriptions should be as easy and transparent to see, alter, and cancel as they are to sign up for.
Been asking for this for the better part of a decade now. Glad they finally listened. 😂
@Kaloudz i think it's because it was on the game cube originally and i DID own a gamecube, but after it had been out a while and i only ever played metroid prime, a lot of smash melee, and the legend of zelda collection on it and that was pretty much it, spent most of my time on the ps2 and original xbox when it came out. I played the demo last week and already know i'll enjoy it. Looking forward to it!
Hope the update includes a fix for Auto-Renewal killing your Account on an Xbox 360 (okay, not killing, but making it not Sign In and giving an Error Code until you turn it off) don't have these kinds of issues on my PS3/Vita 🤷♂️ I thought Sony was supposed to have the worse online service/infrastructure 😅
@Kaloudz no, I think you're right. I've done it many many times. Never had to open edge.
But when is the family plan coming so we can pay one price and share games with more then one other gamertag/acct
@Kaloudz Yeah, IIRC, I can do all of that too.
Like you said, there must be something new, but I am missing it...
I've been able to turn off my subscription from my xbox and renew it, since the day I got my xbox. I've never used the browser for it. What is that you can do now, that you couldn't before?
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