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During the podcast, Spencer was questioned about the recent news that we wouldn't see a massive drop of Activision-Blizzard games 😄 on Game Pass immediately after the deal finalized, as many had expected. As it was pointed out, a major flood 😄 of Game Pass newcomers happened when Xbox acquired Zenimax. Twenty Bethesda games dropped onto the service just days after, including 😄 some of the company's biggest franchises.
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Where, then, are all 😄 the Activision Blizzard games? Why is this different?
Per Spencer: they're coming. Eventually. But the regulatory challenges surrounding this acquisition made 😄 it a bit trickier to navigate than the Zenimax deal, and adding games to Game Pass isn't as simple as 😄 flipping a switch to put them on there.
"The truth of the matter is with Activision/Blizzard/King that 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 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 says.
