Call Of Duty Titles Will No Longer Join Xbox Game Pass On Day One

Have two kids who want cod day one ...who already have a over a year of game pass ultimate to go..so personally not great for me lol

But game pass is super healthy for the games industry….. on a serious note this is probably a good thing. Call of duty is one of if not Microsoft’s main bread winner for its smaller games and single player games so what ever helps the games fair. Will also say this is the reality of the economics of the world. There’s a reason why literally every other streaming service doesn’t do their big budget blockbuster movies day one on streaming services. Games like movies need to make back their budgets with the initial release window then once’s sales slow down bout year later, throw it in on game pass and get a good healthy crowd.

Honestly, I don't mind the change. I guess Bobby Kotick was right about CoD on Game Pass being a bad idea.

The only concern I have is that this may lead Microsoft to reconsider putting other major games, like The Elder Scrolls 6, on Game Pass at launch. So long as they don't do this with any first-party game other than CoD, I'll be perfectly fine with this. I only play CoD for the campaigns anyway.

Worth noting that this is still an improvement over what Activision offered pre-acquisition, because older CoD games rarely ever came to subscription services like Game Pass (PS Plus received a few, I think). Modern Warfare 2019 hadn't been available on any subscription services since its release, up until this month. At least to my knowledge. Heck, it wasn't even available on GeForce Now!

It made sense to remove it as they expected everyone to want to sub to gamepass for just that one game and it didn't happen and all it did was reduce the potential sales they could of had selling it separately.

@themightyant about to say exactly this, if you play COD the cost is basically the same and if you don't, it's now cheaper.

The only issue is those like @StylesT who have already paid the higher price for a years sub (or more) and now won't get COD and will they get reimbursed in any way?

Smart move and something I agree with. Now drop Fortnite Crew and make it $19.99 with FC optional for a small price.

Great news ! It’s a big price drop for Game Pass, so getting Call of Duty a year later in exchange is perfectly fine for me. Anyway, the real Call of Duty fans buy the game, they don’t need Game Pass. And for people like me, who enjoy it but not enough to pay full price, waiting a year is totally fine. It’s still a great deal, because even after a year, COD games stay expensive.

Im split on this.

This makes me way less likely to play call of duty, which sucks but GPU is a tolerable price again so thats nice. I will be dusting off my series x and s now that I will have ultimate again instead of just pc gamepass. Gamepass has lost two of my go to games for when I only have time for a quick session (COD and MLB the show).

Don't care about CoD, but one thing I hate about this is that it proves Kotick was right about CoD, its development cost, and it not being profitable for THAT game to be in a subscription service.

I detest giving Kotick a single point because he is a horrible person.

When I was subscribed to GP, I only cared for single player games anyways. I'm not even sure I ever got much value off GP. I mostly kept it going as a way to keep full access to play any xbox first party games I wanted regardless if it was old or new. I might had gotten more out of the special sales for members than the lineup itself. Anyways I'm derrailing, I dont care about CoD so dont actually care about this change outside it making GPU cheaper. I still wont be likely to re-sub to GPU and instead just subsribe to the PC tier and play all first party games on my monster PCs or Rog Ally X.

@themightyant Good point. Basically 100% should like this. No down side for anyone.

FPS shooters not my style, don't play COD. So very welcome change!

Thank you Asha — her arrival at Xbox really feels like a masterclass. She clearly listens to what fans are saying, that’s undeniable. We still want more concrete proof, but the direction she’s taking so far is very good.

As for COD coming a year later, that works perfectly for me. In the meantime there are already so many day‑one games and others that it won’t make any difference. And with the money saved, those who want it can still buy it, and those who aren’t big COD fans end up saving money.

I don't mind cod being removed but I do think that this may lead to other games not being put on Gamepass on day 1 in the future. Time will tell either way.

I think it's a very logical decision. GamePass is by far the best subscription service in the entire industry, and it was already that way before COD.

For me the main problem is that, no matter how good it is, many people can't afford it at the current price. That, and understanding that most subscribers come from the console, GamePass won't grow if you abandon the Xbox console the way you have in recent years.

This sets the stage for more first party games no longer launching day one on gamepass is my guess.

All the COD games are basically the same thing. They're like sports games that way. So for me personally it doesn't really matter since I can just play an older one. Black Ops 2 servers are packed. I'm sure they all are.

Good. Should apply across the board for all AAA titles.