Oh no acquisition strategy stopped working. Wait until they realize if they won’t make enough new good games their subscriptions will start to fade out because game industry is not the same as video or music.
They should do the typical thing and shut down Activision.
All that Modern Warfare 2019 talent can finally go do something worthwhile again, and not just pump out slop.
Plus the Blizzard name has cashed in all of its previous good reputation, at least from my point of view.
Most fond things I see said about them are from people still playing their older games, other than a friend that is still playing wow classic.
Plz free Raven from the CoD mines, they deserve so much better.
Game Pass’ revenue grew by 5.7% in the year to June, which is below the internal target of 11%. Following the service’s declining growth rate, it was dropped as a metric contributing to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pay in 2023.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Activision has prevented Game Pass from being seen as “not worth it” by many. It is helping Microsoft retain value.
Thank god people don’t fall for this trap. Its so clear that once they have lured in enough fools, they gonna start raising prices.
Maybe they should actually bother adding all their games. I’d love to play the old zombies maps or games like Prototype from gamepass.
I bet no devs are left to fix bugs and compile those old games to new platform, so those are abandonwares.
The games are already on PC, it can’t be too difficult to add them to another store, can it?
I bet they have some internal policy to install some kind of drm / spyware so you don’t keep games when your game pass expires or something and that requires development work. Corporate legal things.
From what I have seen the gamepass DRM often goes haywire with new games on PC. Can’t imagine it being easy to integrate into nearly 20 year old games.
I’ve had game pass ultimate since day 1. I love it. I have last time I checked played 127 games and 2k hours on Gamepass games last year.
Works for me.
God damn corporations are gross.
Because the kinda of people that sub to GamePass aren’t the kinda of people that play CoD every year.
Add a free sub to wow with game pass and I might consider renewing
Seriously. Id sub immediately.
They won’t, of course, because that’d cost them too much money.
But, still, it’s a nice thought.
WoW is a subscription service now?
Not sure if this is a joke or not… WoW was always a subscription game-as-a-service.
Not a joke. Never played it. Didn’t realize there were subscription games outside of iracing.
Oh that’s understandable. Most MMO games, at least in the past before the rise of F2P, had monthly subscriptions (often in addition to needing to buy the base game).
