{"id":2533,"date":"2025-05-08T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:55:24","slug":"call-of-duty-is-losing-players-faster-than-ever-despite-xbox-game-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/call-of-duty-is-losing-players-faster-than-ever-despite-xbox-game-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Of Duty is losing players faster than ever despite Xbox Game Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even the good games can\u2019t retain players (Activision)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not only did Call Of Duty<\/a>: Black Ops 6\u2019s launch on Xbox Game Pass<\/a> do little to boost the service, but the series has less players than last year.<\/p>\n

While Microsoft<\/a>\u2019s purchase of Activision Blizzard<\/a> didn\u2019t result in Call Of Duty going Xbox<\/a>-only, it was still a massive boon to the company; one that\u2019s cemented it as the world\u2019s largest video game publisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aside from getting to reap the benefits of Call Of Duty\u2019s sales on PlayStation, Microsoft can now add the games to its Xbox Game Pass service. As such, last year\u2019s entry, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6<\/a>, became a day one Game Pass title, in a clear ploy to boost subscription numbers.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Microsoft, this strategy doesn\u2019t seem to have worked, at least not to the degree the company must have hoped. Financial results from January<\/a> showed Black Ops 6 generated only a 2% boost in Game Pass subscriptions, which coincided with Call Of Duty in general continuing to haemorrhage players.<\/p>\n

This is according to data from analytics firm Ampere, provided to The Game Business<\/a>, which states that the results of Black Ops 6\u2019s Game Pass launch were initially positive.<\/p>\n

33.7 million people were playing Call Of Duty last November, in the wake of Black Ops 6\u2019s launch, which was 13 million more than the number of players from the year before.<\/p>\n

This can partially be attributed to 2023\u2019s Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3<\/a> being an unusually unpopular entry in the series, with the story campaign widely believed to be repurposed DLC, but Black Ops 6 also improved on the 31.4 million players of 2022\u2019s Modern Warfare 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then, Call Of Duty\u2019s overall player count has declined, with Ampere reporting 20.6 million players as of March 2025. By comparison, where were 20.8 million players in March 2024 and 22.4 million players in March 2023.<\/p>\n

Basically, while Call Of Duty is still huge, players are slowly drifting away.<\/p>\n

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