Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.
Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC including current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, and major day one releases. You can find more details on Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, and PC Game Pass plans here, and manage your account here.
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Yeah, I don’t think Asha is all talk, no walk.
Good move. Call of Duty will still come to GPU, just not at launch. It makes sense.
Really happy with this. $30 was too much for me to spend monthly and COD was not a big enough value add anyway.
I feel good about price reduction, those don’t happen much anymore, but CoD not going day is gonna fuel weirdness, as a campaign-only CoD player I can wait just fine, but people who got into having it all on day one are gonna be rightfully angry at a broken promise
Honestly, it’s the best choice. CoD is every once a year. Sacrificing EA Play and Ubisoft Connect , which brings new catalog in a year, would be unwise. Like why sacrifice a whole service with large selections over a single title. Not to mention, what happens if that user don’t play CoD. That’s a lot to lose.
Speaking of losing, making fans tempted to buy instead of waiting for a year is also a better move for revenue. It’s the least damaging path.
EA Play still included? Lol this is exactly what I wanted.
Well, now we just need to see if any other first party games stop arriving day one to Game Pass… yes, I consider this to be a bad move.
No other game in existence is as big as Call of Duty as a yearly release. There is no other game that costs anywhere close to put into a subscription.
It’s fine with me, I’ve lost all interest in CoD to be honest.
Just hope other first party games, both upcoming and already there will stay where they are.
CoD would not just because of its cost but because its sales are guaranteed to be high each year. Next to CoD there’s only Forza Horizon from MS that’s guaranteed to sell very well, but even that not anywhere close to CoD. GP grew Forza Horizon, while it probably lowered CoD’s significant full price sales.
Only other games I could see it happening with are The Elder Scrolls VI and Fallout 5.
And Forza is a 3 or 4 years between titles type of game now.
It’s best for CoD to be the money generator to keep the division afloat. It’s what PS is trying to do with live service, which hasn’t worked out well. CoD damage is too much of a risk.
Doesn’t matter, this is just a bad move to me no matter what, I have zero interest in CoD. But this opens up all the large first party games to not launching in the service, no matter how big CoD , or if because of it makes sense, this is their wiggle room to do so to other games like TES6 because it just makes sense.
I’m seeing more people say this over the internet. I mean, if that were to happen it’s not the end of the world, I’ll gladly buy the games.
People talk shit they don’t understand all the time