This year’s Call of Duty game, Black Ops 6, will debut on Xbox Live Game Pass the day it’s released. That marks a major change for the long-running, popular franchise: It means Xbox players with a Game Pass subscription won’t have to pay the retail price to get the game.
Last year’s edition of Call of Duty, Modern Warfare III, cost $70 for Xbox gamers when it debuted. With Game Pass, that cost won’t apply to console players for Black Ops 6. An Xbox Game Pass subscription costs $10 a month.
When it launches, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will be playable on Xbox and PC for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for console members, an Activision spokesperson said.
PC players are able to play Game Pass with a PC Game Pass subscription or Game Pass Ultimate, which provides access to libraries of PC and Xbox console games.
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