Xbox Live price increase reversed after less than one day [Updated]

Update, January 23: Hours after Microsoft announced new prices for its Xbox Live Gold subscription service, the company reversed course and decided not to change the listed prices at all. Every price in the below article is now back to its lower, “previously” amount. Additionally, Microsoft went one further and changed a long-standing service annoyance: Xbox Live Gold will soon not be required to access free-to-play games on consoles. Exactly how that work wasn’t made clear on late Friday, but from the sound of things, this change will affect online F2P fare like Fortnite. (In other words, those games will finally be “free-to-play” for any Xbox user.)

“We messed up today and you were right to let us know,” the company said in its updated announcement.

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