Microsoft
and
Xbox
seem
to
have
accidentally
confirmed
that
Call
of
Duty:
Black
Ops
6
will
indeed
launch
on
Game
Pass.
This
morning,
users
of
the
Xbox
app
on
Android
and
iOS
received
a
notification
stating
“Just
announced:
Call
of
Duty:
Black
Ops
6
is
coming
to
Game
Pass
on
day
one
later
this
year!”
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I
can
confirm
personally
this
because
I
got
the
notification
as
well.
When
tapped,
the
notification
leads
to
a
unpublished
blog
post
on
Xbox.com.
Presumably,
this
is
meant
to
go
live
later
and
the
notification
was
accidentally
sent
out
before
it
was
meant
to
be.
In
theory,
Call
of
Duty
was
already
locked
in
for
Game
Pass
as
various
Xbox
execs
have
stated
publicly
that
all
first-party
titles,
including
those
from
Activision
and
Blizzard,
would
hit
Game
Pass
on
day
1.
However,
Xbox
doesn’t
garner
itself
a
lot
of
trust
these
days,
especially
as
its
messaging
and
what
its
executives
say
often
contradicts
what
the
company
actually
does.
Insider
reports
also
suggested
that
Xbox
and
Microsoft
were
still
internally
debating
putting
Call
of
Duty
on
Game
Pass.
Earlier
this
month
though,
the
Wall
St
Journal
published
a
report
stating
that
Xbox
had
finally
made
the
decision
to
put
Call
of
Duty
onto
Game
Pass.
Other
reports
recently
from
various
leakers
suggest
that
Xbox
is
planning
on
increasing
the
price
of
Game
Pass
as
well
as
adding
a
new
subscription
tier.
This
could
be
some
form
of
cheaper
ad-supported
tier
which
has
been
rumoured
for
some
time,
but
the
general
agreement
is
that
this
new
tier
is
somehow
related
to
Call
of
Duty
being
put
on
the
service.
Call
of
Duty
coming
to
Game
Pass
is
likely
to
be
a
big
moment
for
the
Xbox
brand
as
the
model
is
struggling
to
work.
Subscriber
growth
has
flatlined
according
to
the
data
and
Microsoft
very
rarely
discusses
actual
numbers
these
days,
also
indicating
that
it
isn’t
growing.
The
Game
Pass
model
is
built
on
the
idea
of
needing
a
lot
of
paying
customers
to
make
it
not
just
sustainable
but
profitable,
and
it
is
becoming
clearer
and
clearer
that
those
goals
are
not
being
met.
I’m
also
expecting
the
new
Call
of
Duty
to
follow
the
Starfield
route.
When
Starfield
launched
it
had
a
special
$100
edition
that
provided
access
to
the
game
a
full
five
days
before
it
“launched”
on
Xbox,
PC
and
Game
Pass.
Despite
the
fact
that
it
could
be
played
cheaply
by
just
subscribing
to
Game
Pass,
a
surprising
number
of
people
opted
to
shell
out
the
extra
money
to
play
early.
I
imagine
Xbox
will
want
to
repeat
this
as
a
way
of
tempting
people
to
still
buy
the
game
normally.
