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Will Call of Duty skip Game Pass this year?
- Thread starter Kacho
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Dacvak
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Nah, not this year. I bet MS will continue to pretend that everything is fine, and they'll continue to push Game Pass. We'll probably make it another cycle before they start fully sunsetting game pass and/or Xbox.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
GTA will eat that franchise alive if they remove that GP user base this year (maybe this happens anyway?). COD attached to Warzone isn't in a great place at this minute to be doing random shifty shit. Maybe next year after GTA.
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owandeseis
Member
No, for only 50€ monthly you'll be able to play CoD, WoW, Fallout 76 battlepass, Office other GP games and even talk with Chatgpt with Gamepass Ultimate
Unreal value!
Unreal value!
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Nope they can't unless they want a class action lawsuit. It's a fist party title and they promised people day and date for all 1st party titles. Removing titles from Gamepass would be the true end of any consumer confidence in them. So yeah that's what will happen I'm sure lol
vaibhavpisal
Member
Gamepass has been priced quite high.
They didn't do that to skip games on it.
They didn't do that to skip games on it.
They put it on the $30 tier only afaik. Why would it skip it? 2 months and you could have just bought it to play indefinitely.
Ellis
Member
Day One AAA games on GP will no longer be a thing by the end of this year. Absolutely expect this to be one of the big changes coming.
MS won't care in the slightest, as the majority will buy on PS5 anyway, and they'll be better for it.
GP will basically be PS+, but like today, offer less than half the amount of games as what PS+ does.
MS won't care in the slightest, as the majority will buy on PS5 anyway, and they'll be better for it.
GP will basically be PS+, but like today, offer less than half the amount of games as what PS+ does.
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Bonfires Down
Member
If they can't afford to put CoD on Game Pass when it costs 30 f-ing dollars per month then I don't know what they are doing.
memoryman3
Member
There is already a cheaper tier of Game Pass ($15) that does not give access to new Call of Duty titles for at least 12 months. I don't know why people forget this tier even exists? And Game Pass Ultimate is $30 a month now. Surely that is enough to tip the scales to the subscriptions favour if people continue to pay?
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KanKamAndNob
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COD and the MTX revenue it generates is the only reason why people even have GP. No one cares about crap like South of Midnight, Avowed, or Outer Worlds, at least not to the extent that they keep subscribed to GP for it. COD, (as stupid as I think it is), is the reason most normies even bother having the service. They're not going to mass subscribe to GP's more expensive tiers for games like High on Life 2 or Fable. It's the casual crap like COD/Fortnite/sportsball that keeps them truly invested and makes them money.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
No one is laughing now 
Moriarty1889
Member
They should remove it from day one gamepass and try to sell some copies for a change. All AAA games should be removed from day one gamepass as it completely killed any potential sales they could have had. That was one of the biggest blunders in the first place and lead to where Xbox is struggling today with trying to sell their games.
Kacho
Gold Member
Because they're throwing money away. Potential buyers skip the purchase when FOMO is strong and grab a Game Pass sub (either on Xbox or PC) only to cancel it a month later. This isn't exclusive to COD btw. It's just that COD is their biggest game, so their bottom line takes a much bigger hit vs something like Outer Worlds 2.
Also, lots of people are letting their Game Pass subs lapse because of the price hike. Game Pass in its current state is a failed strategy. I fully expect them to start pulling day one games off the service sometime this year and either lower the price or cancel Ultimate tier.
I could be wrong of course, but that's what my gut tells me.
But $30 to rent COD for a month is excessive already. I'm sure they already failed and adjusted prices/tiers for it didn't they? They raised the prices and excluded day one CoD from lower tiers as far as I know. So paying $30 to rent a game for a month isn't going to hurt them anymore. Especially if they pay $30 on top of that $30 for the true "day one". They're monetising it regardless to not throw money away.
mayham2199
Member
I think your looking at it the wrong way. Why get you to rent COD for $30. When they can get you to pay for gamepass in general for online play and then get you to spend $70 to buy COD. If they go this route though it will most likely be getting rid of gamepass in general. Which I think they should do. Get people spending money on the platform again. They tried gamepass and it never reached the numbers they wanted or needed time to move on.
Danny22
Member
Not happening, the only sales it cannibalises is on Xbox which aren't that much compared to playstation. Removing it would damage the GP service without improving sales of COD. Nobody's stupid enough to do it (unless you're Microsoft ironically).
MIcrosoft should have bought EA a decade ago, that was the fastest way of destroying that company and all the sports IP it produces.
MIcrosoft should have bought EA a decade ago, that was the fastest way of destroying that company and all the sports IP it produces.
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They may shut it down or even try to get people to pay $30 per month + $70 but I mean they are not going to lose a lot of money for a $30 monthly rental especially if people buy that dumb $30 early access upgrade. They have already minimised losses by restructuring gamepass so that people paying the standard prices don't get the day one games like CoD. I don't think they will try to pull it offthe higher tier too. I think it's almost an obligation at this point considering their advertising during the ABK case. They did make sure that only the most expensive tier gets it though.
ByWatterson
Member
Yes.
But Gamepass subs get a discount. That's the first step in the wind-down.
But Gamepass subs get a discount. That's the first step in the wind-down.
Xaeroxcore666
Member
After BO7 there shoudn´t be any more annual CODS
Steve Holt
Member
Asha has already completed the next installment of CoD.
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Insanemaelstrom
Member
No. I think the current plan is to add more stuff to gp ultimate( like fallout sub or something akin to that) so that they can raise the price based on added value. So cod will continue to be part of gp ultimate atleast for this year
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ChorizoPicozo
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RickMasters
Member
Jokes aside it's still good value to me. I stop buying COD years ago, but I still play it for my friends sakes. Same with this yearly madden and fifa updates that they pass off as new games. Just throw them in my sub with a bunch of other games and I'm good.
ExtendEmbraceExtinguish
Member
Raise prices to 70-80 usd and provide content. Battlefield 6 will probably die as it's impossible for dice to output like cod and be consistent.
Sell cod @ 50 usd for gpu subscribers. Toss in 1 free cosmetic token.
Sell cod @ 50 usd for gpu subscribers. Toss in 1 free cosmetic token.
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
diffusionx
Gold Member
These COD games cost like $500 million apiece. And for the past 5 years or so they've been total shit even with that spending.
The math just doesn't work. I don't listen to his podcast anymore but Colin Moriarty pointed out that GP math doesn't work years ago and he was right.Even with $30 ultimate.
The math just doesn't work. I don't listen to his podcast anymore but Colin Moriarty pointed out that GP math doesn't work years ago and he was right.Even with $30 ultimate.
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bighugeguns
Gold Member
If that's really true it means the incoming COD is going to be an absolute banger of an "unsafe" video game.
My theory is that Gamepass and Warzone has a negative vibe effect on this franchise.
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Tobimacoss
Member
Exactly, most money comes from MTX plus most sales comes from Playstation. So Gamepass isn't a factor in those revenues.
Yep, not even Premium tier would get it within 365 days, likely closer to 500 days.
Battlefield 7 without Vince Zampella may not be as good, hopefully the Dice team has learned what works.
Lol, I was wondering the same thing.Congratulations on being the source of this newsKacho
Kerotan
Member
People who are going to play a new cod past the first week are going to pay for it regardless. They're just losing money but at the same time if they remove it from GP, it'll lose subs which would be a disaster.
bighugeguns
Gold Member
Swap out COD for a World of Warcraft base subscription, Gears E-Day. Should be fine. I think.
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chromatic9
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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
I don't see what the difference is wether cod is on game pass or not.
The game doesn't suck because it's on game pass.
It sucks because the devs don't know wtf to do with the franchise.
Dropped the Original fanbase by making stupid changes to the point where it's unrecognizable.
Dropped the newer fanbase because Fortnite is better and free.
This comes from a cod fanboy who loved the franchise up to mw19
The game doesn't suck because it's on game pass.
It sucks because the devs don't know wtf to do with the franchise.
Dropped the Original fanbase by making stupid changes to the point where it's unrecognizable.
Dropped the newer fanbase because Fortnite is better and free.
This comes from a cod fanboy who loved the franchise up to mw19
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Radical_3d
Member
You kidding? Two months of GP are already more than what MS does in other stores.
ZehDon
Gold Member
First I'm hearing about this anywhere, so this is probably garbage.
They raised Game Pass prices, and pushed their Day 1s onto the most expensive tier. Microsoft may pull COD from Game Pass, but it'll only be because they're pulling their entire first party and not just COD. Microsoft cares about optics.