Activision is planning to make changes to the battle pass in the next Call Of Duty according to a new rumour, including locking limited time modes behind a paywall.
Microsoft has already warned this year’s Call Of Duty could cost up to £80, but it seems this might not be the only price squeeze facing players.
While nothing has been announced about the successor to Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6, it’s strongly rumoured to be a direct sequel to 2012’s Black Ops 2, with remastered maps and returning mechanics.
However, a new rumour suggests Activision is planning on revamping the battle pass system in the next Call Of Duty, so that you effectively have to pay to access limited time modes.
This comes from regular Call Of Duty leaker TheGhostOfHope on X, who claims Call Of Duty 2025 will have ‘more seasonal limited time modes’ and ‘some of them would be considered ‘higher value’ with unique rewards and different game mechanics/modes’.
However, the only way to play these ‘higher value’ limited time modes ‘will be to have the battle pass, unlike how it’s currently free for everyone’.
They added: ‘[Activision] are planning on taking the higher tier skins, loot, and crossover operators for limited time modes and making them only accessible to battle pass owners instead of having the ‘Premium Event Track’ we currently get during Reloaded updates.’
If true, this would mean, for example, the Joint Operations limited time mode in the current Call Of Duty season (if it is considered ‘higher value’) would be exclusive to battle pass owners, instead of being free to everyone.
At the moment, Activision only incentivises players to purchase the battle pass through operators, emotes, skins, and weapon blueprints, so this would be a more aggressive way of pushing people into buying the battle pass for 1,100 COD Points (£8.39).
None of this has been confirmed by Activision, who haven’t even announced the game yet, but you can guarantee it’s not something that’s going to go down well with most fans.
Last week, Call Of Duty kicked off Season 3 Reloaded, which includes two new multiplayer maps (Haven and Signal) in Black Ops 6, a limited time mode, new modes for Zombies, and a new operator based on actor Seth Rogen.
The next Call Of Duty hasn’t been officially announced but it will likely be shown off during the Xbox summer showcase on June 8, if not before.
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