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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.

You could definitely be right, but there's also the consideration of PC and Cloud. Not just console. Which ABK was not on the Windows Store whatsoever and Kotick infamously did not like cloud streaming. And all Xbox first party games have to be on all 3 platforms, including adding features such as touch controls. Plus they also have to figure out how to handle Battle.net and the games on the service. And overall, ABK just has a lot more games in their portfolio than Bethesda by quite a bit lol. 

But yeah, after 4 months now, it's certainly starting to feel suspicious that the only mention we've had is "later."