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According to the latest information, it seems that every time we are closer to seeing Activision Blizzard games on Xbox Game Pass. Although the purchase of the company led by Bobby Kotick seemed to have settled months ago, in recent days there have been truly encouraging news for the interests of Activision and Microsoft, such as the approval of the operation in record time by the competition agency Japanese.
Although it still remains for the most important organizations, such as the CMA, the EC and the FTC, to publish their final conclusions in this regard; everything indicates that the first two will give the green light to the operation, possibly forcing the third to fail in the same way as its European counterparts. And for this reason, a user wanted to imagine as would be the announcement of Activision Blizzard games on Xbox Game Pass.
This would be the announcement of all Activision Blizzard games on Xbox Game Pass
As we know, Xbox always makes a publication every 15 days with the games that will join the Xbox Game Pass catalog. Well, the user @UniverseXboxOf has created the image that you can see just above these lines, which would confirm the arrival of all Activision Blizzard games to the Microsoft subscription service catalog.
The image is inevitably reminiscent of the announcement that Xbox made about the arrival of Bethesda games on its service. However, and although what is seen in this image would be ideal, it is most likely that exactly the same thing happened with the parents of Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, among others. What does this mean? Well, very simple, that the presence of all Activision Blizzard games on Xbox Game Pass would not be something that happens immediately.
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As in the case of Bethesda, it is very possible that we would first receive a good number of titles from the company, to which would be added other more or less important games over time. For example, given the agreement that Sony currently has with Activision for Call of Dutyit would be difficult to see a game of the franchise on Xbox Game Pass just when certifying the purchase.
The same could happen with other games for which the license is not maintained, such as Guitar Hero Live; or that they are no longer active, as is the case with Overwatch, whose servers have been shut down so that Blizzard can focus exclusively on Overwatch 2 support. Xbox fans would celebrate in style.