• criss_cross@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Activision has always been awful but they’ve really done their damndest to ensure I never want to play a COD game again

    • Requires a phone number to play online
    • Their UI is the absolute worst thing I’ve laid eyes on. It spends more time advertising other products instead of showing, yknow, how to launch the game I paid money for. I quite literally had to google how to launch the CoD remake because their UI was so confusing
    • install sizes are absurd. I still remember the COD remake took 500GB to install
    • and now micro transactions in loadout screens

    And this doesn’t even include all the fuckery with their C-Suite.

    I don’t know why they make it so awful to try to play the game you paid full price for.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ya know, I told myself when they brought Verdansk back that I wasn’t gonna spend 70 fucking dollars for BO6 just to help level up guns, and even though I was tempted I didn’t do it, even when it was on sale. Shit like this is what reminds me as to why I shouldn’t buy it. Yeah, I’ll play your game because my friends and I enjoy Verdansk, it’s a good map and is fun for us to play, but I’ll be damned if I give them any money for it.

    They locked one of the meta assault rifles in a season 1 battle pass (Krig) meaning you literally cannot unlock it and have to buy a weapon bundle to use it. You can pick the gun up off the ground, but not make a loadout with it without spending money. Luckily I’ve earned several of their free CoD points from previous free versions of the battle pass to unlock a bundle for it, but I shouldn’t fucking have to do that.

    I’ll just cost them money to host me on thier servers now, until they remove Verdansk again and I’m not gonna play Warzone.

    • Sal@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You can unlock older battle pass guns with the Armory feature but it is quite well hidden for some reason…

  • orenj@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    honest question. What’s stopping mainstream gamers from just playing the best codblops for the rest of their lives? Is there really any draw to these newer releases every time?

    • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Well it’s no longer Call of Lootbox. It’s Call of “Micro” Transactions.

  • Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Simple, stop buying Call of Duty games. And for fucks sake, stop purchasing microtransactions.

    I’ve boycotted Activision ever since I read how their treatment of a female employee led to her suicide.

  • kratoz29@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    So we live in an alternative world where the Ready Player One villains won… Huh?

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    4 days ago

    I kinda regret getting Blackcell for Season 4. Even with a boost via Blackcell, the battle pass progression is super slow. I’m just not having fun this time around. Always matched against teams of super duper sweats who play like they’ve never touched a blade of grass in their lives.

    (As a 9-5er, in B4 “skill issue.”)

    The game feels more like a chore these days.