Xbox Game Pass has long been the key differentiator for Microsoft's gaming business, offering an alternative subscription-based store against Steam on PC, and offering heaps of value on console against PlayStation with its day-one games pledge. That covenant has been undone now, though.

Xbox's new Game Pass Standard tier, which replaced the existing console tier and excludes day one launches onto the service, is missing much more than that. Massive first-party games that were previously used to sell the service like Starfield, Diablo 4, and Hellblade 2 are nowhere to be found among the subscription's strange middle tier offerings.

Microsoft has officially rolled out Game Pass Standard, the Netflix-like subscription service’s new middle tier, and with it revealed which games will and won’t be included at the start. Among those missing are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,

There is another caveat, that Microsoft has seemingly arbitrarily picked a few dozen games, many of them big titles, that are not included in Xbox Game Pass Standard,

Xbox officially launched its new Game Pass Standard plan on Tuesday, but it's missing some huge first-party titles.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Xbox Game Pass has introduced the new Standard tier for $14.99 per month. It replaces Xbox Game Pass For Console, but bizzarely doesn't include day one releases anymore. Day one releases might eventually come to Standard after one year,

Xbox Game Pass Standard, a new Game Pass plan that is said to bring together what players love about Game Pass for Console and Game Pass Core, delivering hundreds of high-quality games on console, online console multiplayer,