Sky Go is gone (At least for Xbox users)

Are you someone who watches Sky television via your Xbox 360? Well, if you are you probably aren’t any more.

The Sky Go free app that allows Sky customers to use two devices such as iPads, iPhones and games consoles has now been taken away from Xbox 360 users. The option to watch Sky through the console still exists but it now requires users to sign up to Sky Go Extra for an additional price of £5 per month on top your existing Sky bill. The Sky Go app is still available free of charge on iPad and various other devices but for whatever reason Sky have deemed it necessary to revoke the free app from Xbox 360 consoles.

Speaking from personal experience as someone who uses the Sky app regularly on the console, this is somewhat of an annoyance. I was only alerted to the changes while unsuccessfully trying to watch Sky Sports on Wednesday night. A quick search on the internet led me to the disappointing information that I really didn’t want to see: No more free Sky Go on Xbox.

The move to make Sky Go a paid service hardly come as a shock, but the fact that the app remains free on other mediums seems perplexing.

Plenty of people that I know myself use the accounts of family members or friends to utilise Sky Go free of charge through their own devices, therefore eliminating the need to personally subscribe to Sky at all. This always seemed to me like something Sky would crack down on eventually and the only surprising part of this news is that Sky Go remains free of charge on tablets and phones. This leaves people who previously used the service through an Xbox free of charge with two options:

1) Either pay Sky £60 per year for a service that was free until a few days ago to keep watching or;

2) Buy a cable to hook up a device that still has the free Sky Go app installed to link with their television for a one off fee of around £20.

Seems like a no brainer to me.