Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons

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• Justdaveisfine@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is going to become the new AAA normal, isn’t it.

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  • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If people keep playing these games, yes

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  • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s why I only play AAAA games

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, i’m waiting for AAAAA games.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reading that reddit comment section was depressing. Seeing people making excuses and saying just dont buy them. Redditors are way above the general player base in terms of awareness. Became they can actually have long form structured discussion about the state of the game. Even then the response is still “this sucks and its kind of greedy”.

  Seeing the things people put up with is blackpilling. It actually spreads over the whole industry. I wish I hated technology and gaming so I wouldn’t care watching it be farmed by corporations.

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  • SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People normalizing and defending this shit by saying that are part of the problem and I would even say the main reason for this

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    • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Happy Cake Day!

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It has nothing to do with reddit and has been going on since the days of frigging usenet.

    When someone likes something, they find ways to make an exception. The biggest example being The DRM Wars where EVERYONE was suddenly an active duty military person stationed in an airgap in The Middle East and could not connect to any server to authenticate their game (but had no problem spending hours arguing on message boards). Then Valve say you need to use something called “Steam” to play Half-Life 2 and suddenly everyone is ready to say that Steam is different and not actually DRM even though the model wasn’t that different than how Stardock or even frigging Gamespy were doing stuff.

    Everyone hated microtransactions and that is TOTALLY the only reason people were angry at the Star Wars game that came out within a month or two of TLJ. Then Genshin Impact came out and suddenly everyone wanted to make it abundantly clear that that was okay because, yes, it is a gacha game but it is totally a fair one where you can do everything without ever spending any money if you just grind endlessly and use multiple accounts to hoard day limited currencies.

    But also? People hated DLC way back when it was something you downloaded from a BBS after mailing the developers a physical check. But when it was a game people liked (Star Crusader with mutha fugging Roman Alexander!!!), it was suddenly okay.

    Which is to say: Things have been real shit for coming on 40 years of gaming. And yet, by and large, video games keep getting better (not so much the games industry for the people who make games).

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  • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbh this is also the attitude of cod players who stuck around after the BO6 release. Warzone especially took a huge step backwards. 20 Hz server-side updates for a battle royale game is pretty sad

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    • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was not my attitude. Been sticking with the game since the first beta and have only recently been getting bummed by the game. My attitude was: If I’m going to spend money on the digital deluxe edition of the game, I’m sure as hell going to get my money’s worth.

      Was having fun getting Dark Matter and have it all the weapons minus this brand new season. But see my post in here that I made about the game becoming less fun.

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  • SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honestly I think the fact it got enough backlash that Treyarch removed it is a good thing.

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• Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe you. But I’m curious which one is the MTX.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m going to assume the square saying “Reactive Bank Roll” which looks like some kind of paid emote.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is placed exactly where the most recently used blueprint used to be, making it extremely easy to click on out of muscle memory.

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I saw an activision sale on steam and was like: wow let’s see what they got in store. Just to realise that i don’t care at all.

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• alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Next it’ll be micro transactions for reloading.

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  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m surprised that you don’t need to buy bullets.

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And people will pay for it.

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• orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The cod cycle is pretty much the same as fifa games. They make a new game, the hype is big, everyone plays it because the cool streamers play it. Then the hype dies down, people realise it’s the same game, they don’t want to work on the game and they get by with selling micro transactions until the game dies completely just in time for the new game to come out and the cycle repeats. It’s quite fascinating to be honest that it works every time.

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• Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The fact that they aren’t even try to hide it and just overtune the new gun so much and people pay money for it is so disgusting and i don’t even want to waste time on that ptw garbage

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  • SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I haven’t play Call of Lootbox in a long while. Bet they still haven’t done anything to fix spawns.

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  • Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even without mtx, cod6 was the most expensive boring game I’ve purchased.

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• Hyphlosion@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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