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Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will not use Battle.net for Game Pass PC
- Thread starter ManaByte
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
What does this mean? I just have BO6 installed for campaign without all the stupid bullshit?
ManaByte
Banned
It means you don't need to install Battle.net to play COD on Game Pass PC, which you had to do with Diablo IV.
It also means that COD is also PlayAnywhere, meaning if you buy it on Xbox you also have a PC version.
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
just the hole?
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Battle.net had a good run. Time for it to end.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Hmm, no. WoW needs it.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Ah ok, same as when they added the missing COD games (Cold War, Vanguard etc) on Steam.
SportsFan581
Member
Seems like a good change. The games that require two launchers are always a pain, some kind of account linking that the player doesn't need to think about is cleaner.
ManaByte
Banned
No, it's not the same. Steam isn't PlayAnywhere. It'd be the same if you got a free copy on Steam if you already owned it on Xbox.
Mownoc
Member
Unfortunately the Xbox Launcher on PC also sucks dickhole.
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
What’s the file size on the installed game?
MiguelItUp
Member
It doesn't do a full install at the moment, which is bizarre to me to even call it that. But I guess it IS pretty damn early. It only installed some necessary files, which wasn't big at all. I guess because the ACTUAL preinstall isn't ready yet. This feels like a preinstalling a preinstall, lol.
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Yeah sorry, I meant in regard to battle.net no longer being required.
As for PlayAnywhere, I know my Steam library will outlive me, but for Xbox when Satya Nadella gets bored and pulls the plug it will be PlayNowhere.
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ManaByte
Banned
You did for Diablo IV.
Was never on the Xbox store. It was just on Steam and Battle.net
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Indeed - saying battle.net isn't there when it isn't the full game was what I was trying to imply - when the full install is available that may change.
ManaByte
Banned
No it doesn't require Battle.net. It's fully integrated into the Xbox app now. Your Xbox achievements show up and your playtime is now showing.
Diablo IV did not do that. The Diablo IV page just prompts you to install Battle.net
clarky
Gold Member
Thats a blizzard title.
Call of Duty absolutely has been on the store before. They had MW and a few other as well but looks like they've been taken down.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I love play anywhere, I wish it was available for every game 
ManaByte
Banned
That's the UK store.Thats a blizzard title.
Call of Duty absolutely has been on the store before. They had MW and a few other as well but looks like they've been taken down.
In the US it was just Steam until MW 2019 which was put on Bnet.
clarky
Gold Member
No it wasn't. Call of duty has been available through the MS store multiple times globally as a UWP app. Like i said this isn't anything new.
I think pretty much every COD has been availble to play in some form without Bnet since forever. Hell its only been available on BNET since 2019 if memory serves me.
Edit: I kinda see what your saying but its an Activision title not a Blizzard one, I'd be more surprised if it did need BNET rather than it didn't. I think Diablo requires it because of cross play cross progression being tied to Bnet i think. Never has a COD game required a BNET account unless your actually playing there.
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