Microsoft pulls $1 Xbox Game Pass trial just before new Call of Duty release

Microsoft has pulled its $1 Xbox Game Pass trial, conscionable days earlier Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 releases connected October 25th. The 14-day Game Pass proceedings was removed connected October 8th, preventing radical from signing up for a proceedings and playing done the Black Ops 6 run without paying for a afloat period of Game Pass.

Microsoft archetypal stopped its $1 trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass successful March past year, earlier bringing it backmost and nerfing it down to conscionable 14 days alternatively of a afloat month. The Xbox shaper past briefly removed the $1 proceedings conscionable days earlier Starfield’s debut successful September.

It’s not astonishing to spot the $1 Xbox Game Pass proceedings softly removed erstwhile again, particularly arsenic Microsoft looks to Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 to boost its Game Pass subscriber numbers. I reported earlier this year that Microsoft had been debating whether to enactment caller releases of Call of Duty into Game Pass, with concerns from immoderate astatine the institution that the gross generated from typical Call of Duty sales would beryllium undermined by Game Pass. A $1 proceedings would surely undermine income and subscriptions, particularly erstwhile Activision traditionally sells much than 20 cardinal copies of Call of Duty on average, astatine astir $70 each.

Microsoft is besides readying to bring Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Modern Warfare III, and Warzone to Xbox Cloud Gaming aboriginal this month. This is the archetypal clip a Call of Duty game has been disposable astatine motorboat connected Xbox Cloud Gaming, pursuing Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard past year.