An established leaker claims that the Call of Duty series may end up skipping Xbox Game Pass as part of Microsoft's major strategic shift.
  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    34·
    11 months ago

    I’m torn.

    On the one hand, I think Sony’s approach of not putting everything in the subscription library is a big part of how strong their library on the console as a whole is. Their games are worth buying.

    On the other, CoD is the shoveled GaaS nonsense, and “everything we publish day one” has basically been their promise to subscribers from the start. It seems shitty to pull back on that now that they have a couple first party games that people actually want.

    Not that it matters to me in reality. I’m not buying an XBOX or installing Windows. But it seems a little gross to abandon the whole premise they sold people on, especially when that was part of the reasonably tolerating perception of their acquisitions.

    • emogu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      CoD is the shoveled GaaS nonsense, and “everything we publish day one” has basically been their promise to subscribers from the start.

      That’s the part that gets me with CoD. They make so much money on the backend from MTX and season passes that making it F2P via gamepass doesn’t seem like a financially risky move. And it could net them more over time than what they get from asking people to pay $70 up front on top of everything else.

      But I’m guessing that with gamepass falling short of expectations they need to hedge their bets to help make the ABK acquisition worthwhile. It also explains them opening up more games to up front purchasers on PS and Switch. This is MS getting defensive after missing the jackpot on some pretty big bets.