Okay, I was looking at the Bethesda drops post-acquisition and I noticed a couple things. The first drop was this.
All aside from two released on Xbox and PC Game Pass at the same time, whilst Activision-Blizzard has barely anything released on Windows Store (do they?), so one factor could be that Activision-Blizzard has to port a lot of shit over to Windows Store or integrate Game Pass into Battle.net
It's difficult to find a complete list but at minimum, Dishonoured 2, Fallout New Vegas, Prey, Skyrim, New Order and Youngblood were on Game Pass already once before while Activision-Blizzard has barely supported Game Pass at all.
The next drop happened in June (3 months after the first drop).
So maybe 3 months-ish is the rough estimate of how long it will take to start seeing some of these.
The CMA fucked everything up and led both Microsoft and Activision-Blizzard to have doubts if the deal would even happen and I very much doubt, known Game Pass hater, Bobby Kotick, would have set aside things to work on preparing for Game Pass releases for a deal that up until only a couple of weeks ago, they were unsure would even happen, so the work starts now.
Also, I'm guessing things like Tony Hawk Pro Skater will have to be discussed with Tony Hawk, Lol. Sekiro will have to be discussed with From Software. Anything else with licenses.
You know Bobby was probably like "I ain't working on this shit until we're owned by Xbox" and Xbox can't work on it because they don't own ABK yet, while Zenimax was always on the Game Pass train and likely prepared months before closure.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 17 October 2023
