Which Activision Blizzard Game Do You Want Next On Xbox Game Pass?

Geometry Wars would be great. Really not fussed by CoD at all.

Tony Hawks comes screaming to mind, then dose a little trick.

I look forward to playing Crash/Spyro and introducing my kids to them but Tony Hawks is the game I've resisted buying since the merger started.

Personally I have played all the ABK games that I want to already so nothing in that list for me. I would be more interested in the future day one games although not sure what they have cooking outside of Cod?

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled

I mean, ideally, plonk them all on there. I'm sure there are things centered around the ABK acquisition being allowed to go through at all that are preventing this from happening, though; or else it would have happened already, surely?

If I had to pick one though... Spyro: Reignited Trilogy.

@abe_hikura Same! 60% off was tempting, but I resisted so far!

None of these on the list seem appealing to me. What else is there?

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Couldn't care less, only liked Spyro: Reignited from them and I have no plans to replay it when Mario exists.

Not even one. I guess Geometry Wars if I had to choose.

Activision Anthology. I don't think it was ever released on the Xbox platform, but it's such an awesome compilation.

Just went and had a look at the list of Activision games, many good games for their time, not much I’d ever want to play again.

Kaboom! or River Raid maybe.

I want them to compile the zombie modes of the classic Duty games (or all of them) into one game on gamepass.

@Markatron84 they won’t do a big dump of ABK games I’d suspect, more likely to be one or two a month to help pad out new additions.

I was very surprised to learn how little interest I have in the AB library considering I have eclectic taste in games. I would love to have Sekiro but I doubt it’s coming. I’ll probably play a couple COD campaigns but I would not say I’m anticipating them.

I would like to see them add the Skylanders games, but patched so you can play without the toys/portal. This would be great for newcomers and those that have declutterred. They could still support the portal for those that have kept their already levelled up toys.

World of Warcraft even tho i know that is HIGHLY unlikely to ever happen. I have all the Diablo games and i sort of play COD online until it makes me so mad i have to sit it down and lose all the skills I’ve gained.

never played crash or spyro, so one of those I guess...

I own all the Call of Duty games and there's little else I'm interested in. (maybe Crash 4)

The one benefit of this deal may be a more active multiplayer on some of the older games.

I rarely find a match on black ops 2 and when I do, I never get matched with people at my level of pretty useless.

THPS would be my personal choice. Though my oldest has really gotten into the COD campaigns as of late so all of those older ones would be much appreciated too!

Guitar Hero! But I need some plastic guitars.

Starcraft 3 day one and forever. What ? Not in development? What the funk they’re doin?

It's gotta be a modern CoD and they really need to actually try and market gamepass and the fact that CoD is in there of they are actually trying to make this a success. What's the point otherwise. The casual consumer that they are so desperately trying to get doesn't know about gamepass....it needs actual marketing... I know that it's crazy but it's true.

Would love to get the first Diablo on there.

Prototype 1 & 2 (I literally bought 2 when I saw a copy as never played the series, and planned to put it in my Xbox One X, still waiting, glad I got a 360 instead to play it there).

With Pitfall they don't even have to re-sell 2600 Pitfall 1 and 2. They are part of Lost Expedition on PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Wii. That and Activision Anthology wasn't on the Xbox they were PS2, PSP, Android/iOS, GBA, Windows, Mac and Digiblast.

Timeshift why not many PS3/360 era shooters are left behind. Army of Two 1 being on there is annoying when I own 2 40th Day on 360 but 1 on PS3. I am literally buying up that era of shooters for a reason getting support for them on modern consoles I'd play it there and they can have the telemetry or cloud saves besides giving us the performance boosts but nope 360 it is (even if I own a PS3 copy).

Spyro series whichever were on Xbox and worth of bringing back/source code availability, Crash.

Geometry Wars yeah I'd go for that. Got it in PGR 2-4 with Retro Evolved and the other versions in each entry and the DS entry. But 3 on Gamepass would probably be good as it's the latest and easiest to add to the service.

Any backwards compatibility they haven't yet from Activision do it then put it on Gamepass for those that want it and backwards compatibility for us that want it with old disk licenses or digital storefront.

Old CODs, any of the older ones older than 4 MW1 everything modern is on there and I want to experience the older entries and I am.

I bought Finest Hour and Big Red One on PS2 because they didn't offer the Xbox version. If they did I would have played them on Xbox One/Series instead.

Blur I mean come on it's a licensing complexity for cars/music but it's an arcade racer classic.

I can still play PGR 1-4 on my 360. I can play Grid 2 on my Xbox One/Series why not.

Pitfall Lost Expedition come on Xbox/Activision do it already. Give it to us and make a new Pitfall game to rival Tomb Raider, Tad, Uncharted or Indiana Jones. I may own the PS2 version, may want the Wii version for the control differences compared to the analogue stick ones for the hands as camera wasn't standard on that era back then even God of War was for dodging back then even. But getting an Xbox copy why not.

All the IPs they don't care about that I want supported.

Spider-Man
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Crash twinsanity if that is activision

I used to love blizzard, but these days they have nothing that interests me. Neither does activision, altho they’re sitting on tons of classic games they’ll never do anything with… wish Microsoft would (classic DOS games among others…)

@Divide_and_Wander that would be something I’d actually be interested in.

Just give Geometry Wars Retro/Evolved the full 4K treatment (not a remake, no need to mess with it) and I’ll be happy!

ill never see crash as an activison/blizzard game. its naughtydog

They should bring all these games at once on Game Pass. We don't need one game per time. XBOX should make the big move to bring all Activision Blizzard games in one month and increase the value of Game Pass for the consumer.
Activision Blizzard + first/third party day one releases is winning strategy in my view for Game Pass to increase subscription base.

Isn't it amazing just how few decent IP's you get for 70 billion?
Of course the value in the deal goes well beyond what games you can get for GP, but as someone who's just interested in games, the deal did nothing for me..

Tony Hawks is good, but the PS4 and Xbox one remasters are superb so there's no great desire to see this again..

@Titntin You have a wrong view about these games. Activision Blizzard has made 8 billion dollars in revenue and 2.5 billion dollars net profit from these franchise. Franchise like Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, Candy Crash can generate hunders of millions to billions of dollars every single year. It's one of the most high grossing live service games out there. if you bring all these games to Game Pass and keep them multiplatform, XBOX could make a lot of money from subs growth and multiplatform sales-microtransactions in all platforms.

If you only want single player games, then Activision Blizzard is not your first priority, because it's a company that makes live service games as a top products. XBOX has 22 studios and Bethesda to produce high quality AAA single player titles. From Activision Blizzard, you could get the new Call of Duty campaing every year, some story expansion in WoW and a new diablo game every few years, but you shouldn't not expect new single player titles every year. It's a live service company.

XBOX should make day one releases with first/third party games. Besides first party content, they should make more deals fro second party games like Toys for Bob or bringing more day one third party games on Game Pass. That's the way to increase the value of Game Pass. More games, more value; more value, more subs; more subs, more revenue;

@Phil-Spencer-Gate
'You have a wrong view about these games'
No, I have my view and am perfectly entitled to it, as you are perfectly entitled to yours.
I have no desire for any of these games, and reading the comments above, I'm not the only one who's not desperate to get hold of this catalogue. The acquisition of this company has hardly seen a spike in subs either from what we can gather, and judging by the new '3rd party publisher moves'.

That is of course a view from a games player who is not enamoured with these titles either before or after the deal, and has no reason at all to care for the 'business'.
If you wish to be a corporation cheerleader and are therefore impressed by the funds made from Mobile and a couple of very tired but still very profitable IP's, then indeed you may decide this was a fantastic purchase and I'm sure shareholders will be in agreement as long as they see dollars.

You don't have a hotline to the 'truth' and have no business describing any other viewpoint as 'wrong' simply because you do not share it.
You seem to value money. I value games I want to play. Either viewpoint is perfectly valid.

@Titntin I agree that we can both have different perspectives and it's okay. However, you make a statement on wrong facts such this below:

"The acquisition of this company has hardly seen a spike in subs either from what we can gather, and judging by the new '3rd party publisher moves'."

We haven't even seen Activision Blizzard games on Game Pass, so we can't know the impact on the subscription growth. We need to have all ABK games on game pass, and then to see how much this move will affect subs.

Exclusivity was never an option for Activision Blizzard. Microsoft would be crazy to abandon rival platforms such a Playstation in which games like Call of Duty make a crazy amount of money as a live service game. They should keep ABK as a multiplatform company, and add all their games to Game Pass to increase content and subs growth.

In my opinion, the "game player view" is a naive and wrong view. All these talks about exclusivity and "console wars" is just childish play with not an actual benefit about XBOX brand. We have to see the bigger picture and see how much XBOX revenue can grow by going multiplatform and invest more on Game Pass. XBOX has the chance to make money by both game pass subs and multiplatform full price sales. Xbox can surpass Sony in revenue and become the market leader.

@Phil-Spencer-Gate
Strangely, I'm here as a games player.
But I spent 2 decades making AAA games , and yes I have worked on Microsoft products. If I post on gameindustry.biz, that's likely to be with a view to the whole market and business.
When I post here, I do so as a long time games player who simply wants games.
I see the decline of the Xbox brand, and you are seriously living in an echo chamber if you have not seen these concerns from some very notable industry observers.

Your arguments are not cogent. You state 'you make a statement on wrong facts', whilst acknowledging they are true with ' so we can't know the impact on the subscription growth'. My statement is factual now, your argument is it might not be in future, but that's not 'wrong facts'.

I'm not sure why you think think toeing the corporate line on this site is particularly useful. Not one of us cares for the shareholder revenue of a 3t dollar company. We are here for news of, and talk about, entertaining games. Fk console wars, just give us good games.

I absolutely loved Geometry Wars Retro 2 back in the day when it had a bigger community. I still play it on occasion to this day. If it came to GamePass, I do think it would generate a lot of new fans and re-invigorate the highscore tables... I need new competition 😊

Rock n' Roll Racing. From the fun era of videogames!

@Titntin
Apparently our main concern on this site should be about Xbox revenue and business growth, rather than lame stuff like playing videogames

@Titntin I didn't acknowledge anything. I just said that we need to wait until all games come on game pass and see what will the impact be on sub growth. You said that the aqcuisition didn't have any spike on subs, which is an illogical thing to say, because you can't expect sub growth while there is no ABK content on game pass yet.

You are saying that XBOX is in decline...can you elaborate your opinion about that? How XBOX is weaker now compared to the previous generation?
Now, XBOX has over 40 studios with all these acquisitions during the period 2018-2023.

It has one of the most popular franchise with high grossing live service games and mobile games.

Game Pass has over 35 million subs and we expect more growth in the near future.

In terms of revenue, XBOX will surpass Sony for the fiscal year of 2024.

Sony has 22 studios while XBOX has over 40 studios.XBOX is already making more content with better roadmap of first party than Playstation for 2024.

All the facts show that XBOX is on the right track to dominate the market. The next step is to just be more productive with all these studios by releasing more first party games, bringing more day one third parties on game pass and adding all ABK games.

Of course, it should make quality content, good games, that will bring value to Game Pass and more sales for XBOX. This is indeed a challenge that XBOX studios should face, and deliver quality game.

@Phil-Spencer-Gate There is clearly no easy debate with you, you sound like an Ai bot.

I can't say any clearer that I don't care for revenue and business growth, it means nothing to me.
I can't make it any clearer that I'm only interested in quality games (and I'd prefer Xbox to keep its games and have an identity).

Rather than receive an identikit response about business rather than games, I think in this case I'll agree that we can't agree and disengage, and I'll wish you and your shareholders a lovely day.

Crash Twinsanity and the Legend of Spyro trilogy please... they were never made backwards compatible.

Otherwise I'll take some World of Warcraft stuff...

@Titntin I just really want you to elaborate how XBOX is in decline. Do you even remember the state of XBOX before Phil Spencer take over? Microsoft was ready to close down the entire XBOX Division after XBOX ONE launch. These are words from Spencer himself:

"Today Microsoft celebrates the start of its fourth (or fifth?) generation of video game console hardware with the launch of the Xbox Series X/S. But Microsoft Xbox Chief Phil Spencer says the company's gaming efforts almost didn't make it to this point, and Microsoft was considering abandoning the console space just after the 2013 launch of the Xbox One."

"In an extensive interview with Shacknews, Spencer looks back a bit at the tumult within Microsoft in general (and the Xbox division in particular) leading up to the Xbox One rollout. The retirement of Xbox President Don Mattrick in July of 2013, just after the Xbox One's troubled E3 debut, left planning for the Xbox One launch "distributed amongst the company in what I would say is a way that wasn't really feasible for Xbox," Spencer said.

With just months to go before launch when Mattrick left, control of the Xbox brand was splintered across three teams: a platform team headed by Marc Whitten; a first-party games team led by Spencer in "another" part of the company; and a separate marketing team that had been "moved out" from the rest of the Xbox planning. "I don't think it was the best move for stability of our launch," Spencer recalled.

Metal Arms: Glitch In The System. (I'm pretty sure ABK has the rights for this game now.)