Activision Blizzard Doesn't Have Plans to Add Modern Warfare III or Diablo IV on Game Pass in 2023 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 October 2023 / 4,506 Views
Activision Blizzard in a statement responding to questions on whether or not upcoming and recently launched games will be coming to Xbox Game Pass. They currently don't have plans to add Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III or Diablo IV to the subscription service this year.
The publisher is currently anticipating adding games to Xbox Game pass sometime in the next year.
"It’s awesome to see anticipation building for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III," said Activision Blizzard. "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."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Battle.net on November 10.
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.
— Activision Blizzard (@ATVI_AB) October 9, 2023
While we…
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
More Articles
Soon it won't be their choice to make.
Makes sense that, at this point in the year, they would want to continue to sell retail copies through the holiday season. Then, early next year, Microsoft can start adding big Activision games to the service to help people stay subscribed after trial subscriptions from Christmas consoles, and just to keep the game pass lineup looking great for the next couple of years.
They don't have plans, but Xbox does!
So, they want more sales before the "Gamepass effect" takes action.
I just bought mw1 and 2 remake for the ps5. Got it cheap on disc. Haven't played the campaign modes, which I hear is good. The last call of duty campaign I played through was call of duty 2, which came out in 2005/ I think.
Survey says that is a lie.
COD brings in 3 billion or so a year, every single gamepass subscriber combined brings in a little over 3 billion a year. I'm pretty sure why Activison wouldn't bring it to gamepass, but Microsoft will start it sometime next year.
Gamepass making over 3 billion? Can i have a link with Source please?
You can Bing it; it is not something hard to find, and it was 2.9B in 2021 (and it was ONLY for consoles, not including PC). So it is safe to assume this went up since then even if slightly to get over 3B.
But like COD, this is revenue anyway, we do not know how much they profit from it.
"Bing it"!? I've heard the famous "google it" dozens of times, but "Bing it"!? It's a first time.
Do you work for Microsoft, or are you just a fan of the company, perhaps xbox era user? No need to answer, im just joking cause... "Bing it" lol. Please, I'm sorry if it seemed offensive, it wasn't the intention, I just found the detail in your sentence interesting.
one more thing, I "google it" and apparently Gamepass makes something in the region of 230 million in revenue per month, according to recent leaks, and that is less than 3 billion in one year.
Also, why the Hell my first comment is getting downvoted? I Just made a question and asked for source.
So first of all: The "Bing it" was a joke because (and telling me to do not have to answer cause you are assuming all this shit about me is another of your own problem) get off your keyboard and calm down lol da fuck.
I mean, there are triggered people and then you... Bing it lol... I know your standings with Microsoft with all your posts in the articles but come on, if a simple joke triggers you like that; you need to really take a step outside and breathe some air instead of calling me fanboy/Xbox era user (whatever that is) or a Microsoft Employee for saying that... I also use the "Zune" something in some of my posts (again jokingly cause you know... Nobody uses or even has a Zune...), I'm not even trying to guess what will be your answer if you read that too...
As far as the "leak", that's a "leak", the official numbers are more relevant and if they were making almost 3B 2 and half years ago it is safe to assume they are still there or more...
And making a 230M in one month does not represent the whole year and ESP. in 2023 when end of years had huge AAA added to GamePass.
I mean, this is kinda obvious that if they were doing 230M for some months at the beg. of 2023 they are probably higher by now and way above 3B...
ok, I exaggerated a little. I'm sorry, i'm in the wrong here.
About the leaks. These are official documents from the FTC case regarding the acquisition of ABK. Phil Spencer went public confirming, so yes, Gamepass makes around 230M per month. Any other number is speculation based on "guesswork" arising from suggestive, but not conclusive, elements.
Again, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend, I was just making a stupid joke. Also, I'm glad I didn't make jokes about you using Windows phone.
Okay then, my bad for the "trigger" comment, I was genuinely surprised by your reaction :) I was really just making a joke. For some reason I say "Bing it" to people because it is, indeed, ridiculous when 99% are using Google :)
Well, for the 3B, I guess we do not have definitive numbers. I, for one, believe they are probably over, but I agree that there is no official way to know (both ways.) and everything is speculative.
Fair enough. I agree.
With Cod I think there is still a money-hat anti-Xbox deal with Sony, which keeps CoD off Gamepass. Next year it's a different story.
Too bad I don't care about CoD where CoD on Gamepass will make much difference to me. Same for that mindless button clicker called Diablo.
