I personally won't be playing it at all, but I mean I don't see this working

How long will it stay? That’s my question, will it be replaced by the next COD or stay on after the next releases or be gone in 3-6 months?

If it don't grow by at least 10 million, it wasn't worth it

If this is what it takes to make Game Pass work then then the experiment has by and large failed.

The problem here is how many GP accounts are needed to be a successful move... Anyone knows how much they won for every copy of the game sold?($70 I think like 30?) The point I want to try to the table is how many accounts and months for every new GP account start giving them blue numbers.

CoD sells like 20 millions units every year and they are happy with that big 20. Now to be honest like 80% of the new GP accounts are going to play 1/2 month to check out the game and leave... On the other hand, suits are gonna get the bonus anyways but I would love to check the numbers.

COD, Indiana Jones, Avowed and STALKER 2 will be on Gamepass this fall. If that can't move the needle at all, then it's over.

To be honest I think it's more concerning for what the Quality of the games moving forward will be like if they're going to be Gamepass games that likely means the in game market is about to become even more aggressive with its pricing on top of that there are rumors that Blops 6 is going to be treated like a DLC much like MW3 with the game essentially almost being F2P entirely on all fronts since Warzone and Mobile are free that means the price shifts and changes will seem justified.
Don't know what to think really, sounds like a bad idea though in the short term, maybe it's long term thinking that will make it beneficial.

Halo infinite part 2, making it free means this will have more bundles than Fortnite, more pay to win.

Seems to be lose lose because if it doesn't increase gamepass subs substantially Phil's strategy fails but if it does Microsoft will complain about sales and closes studio's.

In my perceiption, all these exclusives coming to Xbox this year carry tremendous expectations on their shoulders already.

Not just within their fans. But in MS's offices, too.

Maybe with the exception that's CoD. It to me feels like the rest needs to draw high, universal criticial acclaim to finally get the word of mouth moving that GP IS inevitable.

Just Imagine:

How the story would have went if Starfield had already drawn unanonimous, universal criticial acclaim. With a 92, 94 or even a 96 on meta- and opencritic.

I am talking the realms of impact like GTA, RDR2, Elden Ring, BG3, TloU, God of War did.

A space and exploration game that's hitting the highs of a 92 or even above. It would have been CRAZY.

But we all know it wasn't. That's why the steam settled so quickly again.

If Indiana Jones and all the other games, like Hellblade 2 recently, won't get into that mighty, universally acclaimed 90's rating, nothing will change.

Microsoft needs some of these high hitters finally.

Additionally: Let's see what's coming in their Showcase this Sunday.

I dont think so. Microsoft has already fired up a freight train, you know how hard it is to stop one of those? Xbox having pretty much announced they're going multiplatform, it's time to finally embrace it, I totally disagree with this article, bad research

Just expect Microsoft to have a spin news story to try and shine a positive light on it. Despite the fact COD is on a big downtrend for players. That is a fact they can't deny. It is a tired franchise and I suspect Activision knew that and that is why they wanted to be bought out. Microsoft have a wonderful track record of buying things 10 years too late and 10 times too much.

Microsoft doesn't seem to understand the general contempt the public has for subscription services. It works for video streaming, but even then people very begrudgingly sub to multiple.

At the end of the day, people are going to treat Game Pass like any other sub: get it when something's interesting, finish it, and drop it until it's worth getting again. Black Ops 6 has potential in that people will literally just play CoD and maybe 2 other games for a whole year until the next one drops...But surely, they must know that people would much rather just buy the game if they just play a few titles.

I'm sure the point of the acquisitions was to keep releasing a steady stream of titles for Game Pass (and hoard IPs), but they keep building on a house with a poor foundation.

Personally, I don't think this moves the needle in any meaningful way for the service.

I know I'll be playing day 1!