Why wasn't it released on Gamepass?

[Pedro Pirulo]

I had to play Persona 3 Reloaded from there because of Denuvo and it really screwed up my performance because in certain closed parts like Makoto's room the fps dropped to less than 20 even though the game was running at a solid 30fps which is illogical. Makoto's room is the most closed area of ​​the game so I blame Denuvo which must be doing something weird in that place.

[Argonisgema]

Why would you play it on gamepass if it had Denuvo?

[qsdww]

Originally posted by El Sucio Dan:

I had to play Persona 3 Reloaded from there because of Denuvo and it really screwed up my performance because in certain closed parts like Makoto's room the fps dropped to less than 20 even though the game was running at a solid 30fps which is illogical. Makoto's room is the most closed area of ​​the game so I blame Denuvo which must be doing something weird in that place.

You're getting those drops in P3R because it uses ray-tracing in some places, like the mirror in the protagonist room, floors in tartarus entrance,...
Regarding the game on Game Pass my guess is maybe Atlus saw P3R sell like hotcake on Steam so they don't want losing money release the game for free on GamePass...