Call Of Duty Won’t Appear On Game Pass Immediately If Activision-Blizzard Deal Closes

With Microsoft’s huge offer to acquire Activision-Blizzard looking increasingly more likely to close, it’s time to start looking at what it will actually suggest for the industry. In a new interview with IGN, Phil Spencer has actually tempered expectations around Activision-Blizzard games on Game Pass, alerting that “there is work to actually move video games to Video game Pass.”

” People believe the deal’s gon na close and whatever’s readily available on Game Pass. It will take us time to get the video games up.”

He adds that this hold-up isn’t particular to the Activision-Blizzard acquisition, noting that Microsoft’s previous acquisitions have always needed time to get native games up on Game Pass. Looking back to Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda in 2021, it certainly didn’t take long prior to Bethesda video games started appearing on Game Pass, with 20 titles from the studio’s back catalogue added just three days after the offer was completed.

During the interview Spencer bewared to prevent entering into specifics about Call of Duty on Game Pass, bringing the subject back to discussing Microsoft’s proposed handle Ubisoft, and how it relates to its ongoing settlements with the UK’s CMA.

Formerly, it was reported that Call of Duty likely wouldn’t be given Game Pass up until 2025, though that information originated from a CMA report so may not be Microsoft’s main strategy. Spencer significantly didn’t confirm that Call of Duty would certainly be concerning Game Pass at all, leaving Microsoft’s plans for the mega franchise still uncertain.