Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire
popcar2@programming.dev 2 weeks agoAccording to some analysts, it’s because Call of Duty lost $300M in sales after being added to Game Pass. They raised the price to get that money back, people started unsubbing, and now they’re backtracking on putting CoD on game pass as a launch title (so they’re reducing the cost again).
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That was always a weird move to me. CoD and GP are like fundamentally opposed to eachother in how theyre trying to keep customers.
CoD is the game. When you meet a casual and they say “yeah i play xbox” they mean “I play call of duty”. They cement this by keeping the file size fucking massive so you cant fit other games. Only reason to have cod on gamepass is to trick fans into thinking “so I only have to pay a little a month and I get cod for free?” When youre milking them for more than it would cost.
Jacking up the price to justify cods existence is possibly the dumbest move available.