Say goodbye to absurdly cheap Game Pass: Microsoft is killing the $1 trial

Bad news, everyone: We'll no longer be able to live high on the hog of Microsoft's largesse. The Verge reports that the company is terminating its long-lived—and very persuasive—$1 Game Pass Ultimate trial, which gave you a month's access to the 100+ games in the PC and Xbox Game Pass libraries for the low, low price of barely anything.

Microsoft hasn't said why it's choosing to retire the $1 trial now, after so many years of availability, but did tell The Verge that it's "evaluating different...