Activision Blizzard's First Game Pass Release Has Been Confirmed By Xbox

why only one ActiBlizz game?

Oh hey. I guess I'll finally play this then.

I'm assuming the wait is to port xbox functionality and play anywhere into all the pc versions. EA and Ubi games are completely detached from xbox pc, no achievements or multiplayer outside of full crossplay etc, and they can't do that with Blizzard so integrating battle.net into the xbox ecosystem without breaking warcraft, starcraft, hearthstone etc is possibly the hold up.

It was a good game but maan did it get boring fast. And the silly microtransactions did not help neither.

@Kaloudz I'm with you. I bet we get a motherload drop in June at their showcase.

Enjoying this on Steam Deck, will be able to carry over my game to my Xbox too.

It’s going to be a drip feed of ABK games, will never dump many at once, they will use it to plug gaps in a month or cover a genre.

@Kaloudz They just called it the Summer Showcase, I think.

Well its dwindling player base to sell more stuff to is drastically in need of a boost - so Game Pass makes ultimate sense to get it on as soon as 'legally' as possible so that all the 'new' players boost the dwindling economy to keep it going...

This is a big one. I take this as a sign that they are all on the way. There were rumors (probably false) that ABK was still trying to avoid gamepass if possible.

This is the right one to focus on first if they can't do call of duty yet.

@BacklogBrad Yes, it makes sense to bring the new and big ones first. I guess the first Call of Duty on Game Pass will be the newest, too. I also think that @RexPowercolt is right and if you pay attention, there is one bit when they talked about integrating the new content and that means another thing they repeated, the Xbox ecosystem: cross-save, cross-play, Cloud, etc.

Oh great, the worst most current title of the lot they can pick from. How generous 😂

Hell yeah this got me juiced up!

Cool! I actually expected that older games from the Diablo franchise will be released first and Diablo 4 will be kept as the diamond as one of the latest Blizzard titles released on GamePass.

Will MS/Xbox have the guts to drop the new CoD in Game Pass? That would be a gamble. Maybe it would work out for them. The ol' $35 for DLC, boosts and early access will be offered, of course.

@theduckofdeath
MS explicitly said in the business update that first party games come to GamePass. I expect that will be all of them. They did not say there would be any exclusions.

A tricky thing MS could do is keep CoD Warzone as multi-platform and instead of calling CoD Modern Warfare, CoD Black Ops, CoD WWII, etc. game drop the CoD name and let them be stand alone campaigns exclusive to XB.

Just enough time for game pass folks to do the story, get bored with season 3 which ends April 14th (I think.) & declare it a ***** game.

Hopefully season 4 has a bit more impact and offers more than grinding the same end game boss over & over for a minute chance of an Uber unique. (Apparently 1 in 7000 chance after Blizzard generously increased it from 1 in 10 million 🤔)

It's great they are finally dropping but could of picked a better game or even more than one imo I'm not into diablo

I think this was announced as a 'peace offering' to confused fans.
But hey, it's a big game and so it's definitely very welcome.

Personally I'd have preferred more openness and honesty about their future directions, but given the huge over-reactions to the initial rumours, I do have sympathy for the tightrope they needed to walk in the cast.

@BAMozzy I wouldn't say that 34+ million Game Pass subscribers is a dwindling player base 🤷‍♂️

@RetroMan71 I never said anything about 'Game Pass' having a Dwindling player base!!!

What I was referring to was Diablo 4's dwindling player base that is no longer playing the game to 'buy' any of the 'extras' that keeps games supported and supplied with 'new' content.

It makes sense to put Diablo 4 on Game Pass as soon as possible to inject Players into this game which in turn also brings back players who purchased. That then gives them a 'larger' player base to 'buy' extras etc - thus increasing the Games longevity and support instead of it dwindling away to die...

If they put Diablo 3 or Prototype into Game Pass, it doesn't really bring 'revenue' in that will help those games continue to be supported with expansions, micro-transactions etc...

Diablo 4 needs Game Pass more than Game Pass needs D4 to reach more people and bring funds in so the Devs can keep making their 'planned' content for it...

@BAMozzy Ahhh! apologies... I misinterpreted your comment..👍

Installed the trial a while back, but didn't play it.

Is it multiplayer/co-op only?

Won't go near it if it is.

I've been waiting for this

@Isca Story campaign: 100% solo (though you can co-op if you want)

Seasons: 90% solo 10% soft co-op. You will naturally come together with other folks around various open world events & world bosses to complete together but not actually in a group with them.

Of course coop / multiplayer is possible for all aspects of the game if that's your jam.

Does it support crossplay?

@CutchuSlow cross play & cross progression across all platforms afaik

@BBB Thank you

Thanks BBB

After Elder Scrolls online I'll never play a MMORPG or Co-op again!