More and more, it’s looking like Microsoft's monumental purchase of Activision Blizzard is going to go through. There is still the business of gaining approval from regulators across the globe, of course, but Microsoft seems confident that things will work out in its favor and the acquisition will be finalized. Which is why it’s confident in teasing its plans for Activision’s various franchises when it comes to Xbox Game Pass.

As soon as the acquisition was announced earlier this year, people were speculating what this would mean for Xbox’s subscription service. Considering its popularity, it’s pretty much a given that Activision games will be brought to Game Pass if the acquisition goes through, and in a message on Microsoft’s website, Xbox head Phil Spencer stated as much. He brought up how the company intends to make “Activision Blizzard’s much-loved library of games” available on the service in order to make them accessible to a wider audience.

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Spencer was a little more vague when it came to naming specific games, however, merely saying Call of Duty, Diablo, and Overwatch are planned for Game Pass. That’s still good news for Xbox-owning fans of those franchises, but it fails to provide details many have been eager to learn, like how long it will take for Call of Duty to be added to Game Pass, or which games will be added. There’s also the question of other Activision Blizzard franchises that weren’t mentioned being included, like Warcraft, StarCraft, Crash Bandicoot, etc.

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Then again, it’s likely those are questions that can’t be answered in greater detail until the acquisition is finalized, and to reiterate, whether that happens will hinge on whether regulators approve of the deal. One potential hurdle is the possibility that the buyout of Activision and its library of major IPs could limit them to the Xbox ecosystem, thus restricting Sony and other companies’ ability to compete with Microsoft, something the gaming market needs to stay healthy.

Spencer, for his part, doesn’t seem all that worried, and stressed in his message that Microsoft is aware of these potential issues and working to avoid them. In the same way that Microsoft has continued to support Minecraft as a multiplatform release following its acquisition of Mojang, he said that it will do the same for franchises with audiences outside Xbox. This includes being “committed to making the same version of Call of Duty available on PlayStation on the same day the game launches elsewhere.”

With the Activision Blizzard buyout, Spencer said that Microsoft wants to “pursue a principled path” and stated in closing that the company will continue to work with regulators to make sure the acquisition will ultimately “benefit the industry and players.” Hopefully, things will pan out in that direction, and Xbox Game Pass subscribers will be able to play Activision’s games without worrying about the wider ramifications.

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Source: Microsoft