One of the big reveals that ended up arriving during Gamescom 2024 was the announcement that Genshin Impact‘s set to arrive on Xbox this November, four years after it originally came out in 2020. However, a detail on the game’s Xbox Store page seems to suggest that despite it being free-to-play, you’ll need to invest in a Game Pass subscription in order to access Genshin’s online multiplayer elements.
As spotted by a user on ResetEra, Genshin’s Xbox Store page listing states: “Online multiplayer on console requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Game Pass Core (sold separately).”
While the Game Pass logo was featured at the end of the announcement trailer for Xbox Genshin, the inclusion of this line has confused some prospective players, many of whom look to have assumed it’d just mean those with a subscription would just be given some extra in-game items or bonuses. For context, Xbox removed the subscription requirement for a lot of free-to-play games back in 2021, when Xbox Live Gold was the name of the thing you’d have needed to pay for in order to access multiplayer.
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