Blizzard president says a Diablo 4 Game Pass launch is “not happening” | PCGamesN
Blizzard says it has no plans to do a Diablo 4 Game Pass release, as the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard looms overhead.
Since the Microsoft acquisition was just approved, wouldn't that make this Phil Spencer's decision?
Oh it was approved? Goodie, more of the gaming industry gets vacuumed up into 2 companies.
Only when it actually goes through, and companies are very, very careful to not intermingle during an ongoing merger as that leads to problems that kill mergers
Blizzard can say no but once Microsoft owns them it doesn’t matter.
And Microsoft has made it pretty clear that these games are coming to gamepass.
This was in response to a rumor going around that a gamepass release was imminent. I don't think it was intended to mean "no possibility ever".
Resistance is futile, all your base are belong to us.
It’s not going to be on Game Pass earlier than first big paid DLC comes to D4.
Well his company just got sold to Microsoft. So unless I'm mistaken and Microsoft plans to keep Bobby in the CEO position (which would be an EXTREMELY bad look) I dont think its up to him.
Just for the record, the merger is not happening yet. Even if it's approved in the US after the FTC lost it's bid to pause it recently, it has still been denied in the UK. That has not been reversed and the appeal process for that typically takes longer than the deal would be possible. MS is seeking an expedited appeal.
Now, that being said, the UK's reasoning for stopping it was weirdly bad (cloud gaming monopoly), but that's what they went with, so who knows.
This was literally the only reason I cared about the Microsoft/ Activision fiasco. 🤷
It’ll be on there if/once the acquisition actually goes through. Same language was used by Bethesda pre-acquisition and all their games are on GP