The expectation-setting comes after un-sourced rumors began to spread that Microsoft might be planning a surprise shadow drop of Activision 🌝 Blizzard games coming to Game Pass to celebrate the closing of the deal. While the Activision Blizzard account recently tweeted 🌝 that it did “not have plans” to bring its games to the Netflix-like subscription service before the end of the 🌝 year, some fans still held out hope that a game or two from the back catalog might pop up before 🌝 2024.

Advertisement

“The regulatory process took so long and frankly there was a lot of uncertainty in that process up until, really, 🌝 a week before we closed, or really the week of, when the CMA finally came down to their decision, that 🌝 we weren’t able to get in and work with mostly Activision Blizzard in this case on that back catalog work,” 🌝 Spencer told the Official Xbox Podcast on October 17. “I would love it if there was some kind of secret 🌝 celebration drop that’s coming in the next couple of weeks—there’s not.”

That’s in contrast to when Microsoft closed itsR$7.5 billion deal 🌝 to buy ZeniMax and its Bethesda Game Studios games, including Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, were triumphantly 🌝 rolled out on Game Pass soon after. Spencer called it a disappointment that fans would have to wait the extra 🌝 months in the case of Activision Blizzard.

Advertisement