EA CEO, John Riccitiello, might have just conceded the battle for the FPS crown recently when he admitted that he thinks that Modern Warfare 3 "will be a really good game".
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Beta Weekend #2 Underway
Curious why people can’t play CoD anymore? Every other team I get on is complete garbage. Nobody gets tags in kill confirmed, nobody captures points in hardpoint, and teammates are clueless half the time.
Sadly, business as usual.
Activision Blizzard writes: "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.”
We all pretty much knew this was the answer.
They are also sending a message to Xbox gamers that they have to buy the game if they want to play it this year. It makes sense for Xbox gamers to hold off thinking it may be added since the apparent deal is said to close before the game releases. if you are paying for gamepass, and COD is coming to gamepass... obviously you would be hesitant about buying the game.
It's possibly the last time a COD release is going to do well from a financial POV so of course they're going to persuade everyone to pay full price for it. After this year all those sales are going to evaporate.
@Bloop
With the parity clause we aren't going to see new COD games on GamePass for at least 10 years.
They did the same with Bethesda as well. The catalog didn't just suddenly appear from day 1. It was added in batches starting a few months later.
Completly false. Microsoft bought Bethesda March 9th 2021 and Microsoft added 20 Bethesda games three days later on Gamepass ( the official annoncement was March 11th for the next day ). So no, not months later, but only 3 days later.
Good, Game Pass has been absolutely stacked since September and continues to be stacked all the way until the end of the year.
They should hold onto those games until they need to fill gaps next year.
Replies(1)Ya from atomic hearts to life of pie and a lot more. It would be hard for me to keep up. I don't see why you got disagrees lmfao.
They even got their reply deleted as spam lmao 😂
Guess their truth about GamePass having an incredible lineup of day one titles this year triggered a few fanboys.
He’s getting disagrees because it’s N4G and positive MS news. Only Sony is allowed to have positives news on this site.
Already bough Diablo IV and couldn´t care less about COD.
Hopefully as a part of Xbox Games Studios, we can have a more interesting and diverse line up of games from Activision/Blizzard outside of the GaaS realm.
Starcraft: Ghost? Make it happen, Phil
If Phil wants to make a splash and create excitement beyond camp green then you're absolutely correct. New shit.
Example: sign From Software to a 1 game deal and reboot Nightmare Creatures (OG Souls game). That announcement would turn a few heads. We can't get a BB2 or a remastered Bloodbourne for PS5/PC so it's a South Park ro-sham-bo to Sony at the same time. Or perhaps more realistically a sequel to Sekiero (sp)?
I am not a COD person, but I did enjoy the campaigns on X360. It is the multiplayer I don't care about.
I am really looking forward to playing their campaigns on game pass but I hear it might take a few years before we see COD on gamepass
Starcraft: Ghost would be HUGE
Well, they're gonna have to put them once the deal closes. Activision will no longer have a choice. Whatever freedom they have or had is good as gone once that deal is done.
DLCs are not free on GP, they could keep making the cod multiplayers as dlc part of COD/Warzone as the main entry and then they could get away without putting them on gp.
Everybody knows xbox owners don't buy games Activision. Please refer to Starfield, those initial sales tapered off rather quickly. But then again why would they care, their execs getting golden parachutes.
That makes no sense. If they don't buy games SF wouldn't of been number 1 last month beating NBA 24. That's a dead narrative so you'll have to find new excuses.
Sf was number 1 in the UK. Where lego star wars and mortal combat 11 (old games)outsold NBA24 that week as well.
Let's see what the September NPDs say...
Its not totally unproven we saw the Phantom liberty sales breakdown pc was obviously the highest and Xbox was the lowest selling platform.
If a game is a AAA title there's no chance of it launching on GP so people will buy it I feel people do hold out for those b grade games to be gamepass titles which isn't a bad thing
Didn't know that sales data worked with the % of purchases bought compared to consoles sold
or perhaps it's because Xbox series had more consoles out compared to PC and PS5 so that is why you can say Xbox ppl don't buy games.
Or have you considered that Xbox will be last by default because there are fewer Xbox consoles compared to PS5 meaning that even if 10% of the Xbox crowd buy it vs the same % for PS5 it would lead to al lot more sales on PS5.
Guess the people that I know who are Xbox gamers and buy games are doing it wrong if "everybody knows Xbox gamers don't buy games"
They do buy games. It’s just that Microsoft hasn’t been putting them out, or the quality hasn’t been good. A good example would be Halo Infinite.
@franwex
That's funny considering Sony hasn't dropped much new stuff nor is there any plans on new stuff coming out soon besides Spiderman 2. After that what else is there? Why do you think Sony cried when MS bought Activision. The games they have are in development and take too long and COD gives the annual income. That's come to a halt since they will no longer receive exclusive content. Sony keeps raising their prices on streaming service as well as consoles. Why?
"might have just concede the battle for the FPS crown recently when he admitted that he thinks that Modern Warfare 3 "will be a really good game"." well not necessarily but at least EA are acting a bit more maturely than the childish dribble that has been coming out lately.
I read this as:
"My retarded second-cousin is still special in his own little way..."
"....on OPPOSITE DAY!"
Its called appreciating the competition you moron, and its the only way to actually get better at what you do.
It's called SARCASM!