Activision Blizzard Will Add Titles To Game Pass Starting Next Year
Activision Blizzard has made a surprise announcement about Game Pass.
In a tweet a few hours ago, they said:
“It’s awesome to see anticipation building for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III. As we continue to work toward regulatory approval of the Microsoft deal, we’ve been getting some questions whether our upcoming and recently launched games will be available via Game Pass.
While we do not have plans to put Modern Warfare® III or Diablo IV into Game Pass this year, once the deal closes, we expect to start working with Xbox to bring our titles to more players around the world. And we anticipate that we would begin adding games into Game Pass sometime in the course of next year.”
As reported by Jez Corden at Windows Central, his own sources claim that Activision Blizzard actually won’t wait until 2024, and plan to start bringing games to Game Pass as soon as the Microsoft – Activision deal is finalized.
Microsoft did reactivate the servers for Call of Duty games on their old consoles, Xbox One and Xbox 360. That means players who kept their copies of their older games active through to their Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S console, or bought those games to play on the new consoles, can play those old games on those original servers.
That all happened before the deal was finalized, though it does seem like something that didn’t necessarily require a lot of money or any binding contract to accomplish. What Activision and Blizzard can bring to Game Pass after their Microsoft deal is approved could be much more substantial.
Just to give you an idea, here are some titles that Activision and Blizzard published on the Xbox 360 that they can bring back via Game Pass:
To be clear, the wording on Activision Blizzard’s tweet was
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