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Machiavellian on 06 February 2024
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Zippy6 said:
G2ThaUNiT said:

A big part of ABK games not being added to GP had to do with the state of whether or not the deal was actually going to pass. Wasn't much points in doing much work porting if it was all going to be for not. With Bethesda, there was little to no pushback, so that was being worked on to be ready for when the deal closed. MS was definitely caught off guard to the level of backlash they got with purchasing ABK. 

Looking at Ryuu's post of the DF's poll, removing day 1 first party games from GP will be a huge deal breaker for most!

There is nothing to port, at least for gamepass console. The games are on Xbox already, adding them to gamepass will be a simple process and I don't buy the line that it isn't. It doesn't take 4 months to add games to gamepass. It will be a fairly simple process in the backend to change which titles are included with the subscription.

There is definitely some reason Activision titles aren't on their yet, and I don't believe it has anything to do with them questioning if the deal would go through or not. What that reason is I cannot speculate and it doesn't mean that they aren't going to come to gamepass, but there is some reason we do not know about.

Only thing I know is that no development can be done while the deal did not close.  Since I have been a part of a few mergers, I know that we could not integrate the other company products into our system until after the deal closed even though we knew exactly what was going to be done first.  We could not start anything until the deal was closed.  As to the technical side and license side, who knows what has to clear or what has to be done in order for it to happen.  Hell you do not even know if MS has the development/ business resources to do it in the time frame you believe it should happen.  We get a sense that MS is doing this because basically they have made some vague statements on that front but there could be multiple issues at hand but one I do know, nothing happened until after the sale was closed.