battlepass

See also: battle pass

English

Noun

battlepass (plural battlepasses)

1. Alternative form of battle pass.
   • 2020 February 21, Mike Hume, “Latest Call of Duty season makes Ghost a playable character”, in Stars and Stripes, volume 78, number 220, Washington, D.C., page 26, column 4:

     The battlepass will also again include the opportunity for players to earn up to 1,300 Call of Duty points (the equivalent of $13) by completing all tiers. / This is the second installment of Modern Warfare’s battlepass mechanism, a Fortnite-like rewards mechanism that parcels out new content for players as they amass playing time and experience points in the game. The first battlepass included another new character, Mara, while a second, Nikto, was available in the in-game story as part of a $24 bundle.

   • 2021, Bijan Khezri, Phillip Schuster, “Marquard Media: 4Player’s Learning DNA to Survive Disruptions”, in Oliver Gassmann, Fabrizio Ferrandina, editors, Connected Business: Create Value in a Networked Economy, Springer Nature, →ISBN, part III (Case Studies on Connected Business), page 376:

     SCILL was positioned as a B2B “gamification-as-a-service” (GaaS), empowering game publishers to customize in-game challenges (such as battlepasses) on a SaaS model. […] Creating challenges and battlepasses requires deep knowledge of a specific game.

   • 2023, Matthew Betti, “[Derivatives] Derivative Formulas”, in Mathematics and Statistics for the Quantitative Sciences, Boca Raton, Fla., Abingdon, Oxon: CRC Press, →ISBN, section I (Applied Mathematics), page 81:

     The third row in our table answers the question from Chapter 1 of who cares about e? It is its own derivative! It’s basically the free square in the middle of a bingo card²⁷.

     ²⁷Or to use some references that will end up dated: the free battlepass in Fortnite or Call of Duty: Warzone, or that time in Squid Game when that woman got to skip a game because she didn’t have a partner