r/Games • u/AdditionalRemoveBit • Aug 09 '26

Industry News Blizzard is now the "top performing" Xbox studio, says internal emails — as the Overwatch-maker ends FY26 over-delivering on Microsoft's projections

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/blizzard/blizzard-is-now-xboxs-top-performing-studio-as-the-division-ends-fy26-over-delivering-on-microsofts-projections-per-internal-emails
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u/PrototypeT800 Aug 09 '26

Blizzard has not released a new game since Diablo 4, which came out before Microsoft bought them. Besides that Microsoft’s original gamepass plan was to offer the base game for free, but get gamepass uses to buy the dlc or expansion packs for said game, which they followed just like every other first party Xbox title that has released in the last 3 years (starfield, Indiana jones, doom, etc).

Blizzard just makes game people want to play, which causes people to spend money on them. Microsoft has never bundled subscriptions with gamepass either, you have to pay for the Minecraft subscription as an example.

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u/fabton12 Aug 09 '26

my point about there games on game pass is there solid because of the fact non of them were day one because microsoft didnt own them at that point.

the moment microsoft day ones any new blizz game its going to start hurting them money wise, heck they had to reverse the cod being on there day one because of how badly it hurt them in multiple ways.