shikamaru317 said:
It's really odd they didn't have the queued up and ready to go like with Zenimax, the Zenimax games were on Gamepass within days of the acquisition closing. I realize that there is more work to do on Activision, since many of their older games aren't already on back compat, meaning Xbox will have to bring their BC team back out of mothballs to work on those, but there plenty of ABK games from 360/OG Xbox that were already on BC and even more on Xbox One and Xbox Series that they should have had ready to go on Gamepass. |
They couldn't because of the uncertainty of the regulatory process.
"Talking about why Activision Blizzard is different from Bethesda in terms of Game Pass is because the regulatory process took so long and there was a lot of uncertainty on if the deal would even go through so they weren't able to get in and start working with Activision Blizzard on getting their back catalogue ready for Game Pass. That work has only recently started. Worth mentioning that a lot of Bethesda titles already came to Game Pass as well beforehand. Phil says 2024 is when we should expect to see titles hitting Game Pass and there's no surprise drop in the next couple of weeks."
