Microsoft needs to lure extra PC avid gamers to its Netflix-like Xbox Game Pass subscriptions—and it’s utilizing subscribers’ buddy networks to solid the online. As of May 2, the new program permits current PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate subscribers to share 14-day trials with as much as 5 pals.

Previously, a budget option to pattern PC Game Pass was by a $1 trial, which provided a full month of time to discover over 400 games for PC. This provide sadly died a quiet however unhappy loss of life in late March 2023. Since then, avid gamers eager to attempt the service have needed to pony up for a full month, or hunt for a promotional card that gives a brief trial.

PC Game Pass’s library contains titles from Microsoft, Bethesda, EA, and third-party studios. Subscriptions additionally provide extra in-game perks if you hyperlink your Microsoft account to different companies (e.g., a Riot Games account). Like Netflix, new video games are always added to the catalog, with others periodically leaving, as effectively.

Tied to the launch of co-op vampire Redfall, this present promotion appears geared toward drawing extra PC subscribers to the Xbox Game Pass service. In an interview final fall with The Verge, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer famous that whereas console subscriber progress had begun to gradual, PC progress continues to climb. Figures launched by Microsoft in October 2022 confirmed a 159 % improve in PC Game Pass subscriptions.

Current subscribers can discover Friend Referral invites on the Game Pass Home display screen (for each console and the Xbox app on PC), in addition to on Xbox.com. If you’re on the receiving finish of a code, and discover that you simply like PC Game Pass, you should utilize this handy trick to subscribe for half the fee. Just let the trial run out first, then observe that information’s directions. You can lock in that cheaper charge for as much as three years.