Who’s buying this shit anymore? The last game I got was the original MW2. None of my friends have bought CoD games in ages. Am I just in the wrong friend circles?
Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
Submitted 1 year ago by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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FourThirteen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
crackajack@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Nah fam, you and your friends are just getting old. It’s the kids these days who are suckers for buying cash-cow and money milking games. Because they are kids and don’t give a shit about money with respect to quality.
spooksboots@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it’s a little about how they don’t know better either, and there’s no better options. You and I remember when multiplayer games used to be great, but if nowadays they’re all shit, what option do they have?
alienangel@sffa.community 1 year ago
I think there are fairly good odds none of my gaming friends have ever bought a CoD game.
badaboomxx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am.on the same page, i finished the campaign on my x360, then tried just once multi-player, and it was full of cheaters.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Funny. My worst fear is being stuck in the middle of the ocean with no boats or land in sight. But I’m trying to be more open-minded so I guess I shouldn’t judge.
… but also at the same time my greatest fear about the gaming industry is that all indie games will start having battle passes and subscriptions. But I guess some people who still think the base version of Call of Duty is worth the yearly $70 subscription fee might be deathly afraid of being reminded that MW3 is actually just MW2 with a few new guns.
Nelots@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Battle passes are fine when done right. Deep Rock Galactic, for example, adds all the cosmetics from the pass into the random loot pool after the season ends.
Most battle passes fucking suck though. Like in overwatch where you pay for the privilege of unlocking things through dozens of hours of gameplay.
thatWeirdGuy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ye, ghostship gaming has nailed it. Some items even go into the store and can be bought with earned currency.
The game is so good that I’m serious considering buying some dlc to support them.
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I see where you’re coming from, but if the game is designed in a way where it feels like it’s trying to convince me that playing the game for a larger amount of time is worth a reward and not rewarding in its own right then something is definitely off
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They make COD so stupid. Launch COD 2, “Welcome to Warzone, the game you didn’t buy but we want you to play and buy stuff because fuck you, give me money”.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What are you guys even talking about? The games exist within other games? Also why are they reusing names from a decade ago? Is it the same game?
Jeffool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The contemporary Modern Warfare series is a remake of the original series. At least a general new take on a lot from that series. It isn’t 1:1 by far.
Instead of letting you launch each game individually, or creating a general launcher that you start and then pick the game you want to play… They chose to force players to launch MW2 as a fake hub, and in that menu, click the MW3 option.
The article says you can tell because apparently if you want to play MW2 you just pick the game type and it starts starving for a match. If you want to play MW3 you have to wait as MW2 shuts down and you wait for MW3 to start, after you already waited for MW2 to start initially.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My worst fear is that thing with the face of a man which stalks the deep woods.
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just looking for mushrooms dude
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year ago
It takes 70-90 seconds to launch Modern Warfare 3
That’s it? Launching Warzone takes at least ten times that, between daily 45GB updates, multiple restarts when updating, unskippable intro videos and PS2-era loading times.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Wtf who would play that? I’m not waiting 10 minutes to play a videogame - that’s a 6th of my free time every day.
chaogomu@kbin.social 1 year ago
Not willing to wait 10 minutes to play a game? You Sir, or Madam, have never played modded Rimworld.
Now imagine loading a game, realizing your mods aren't quite right, and having to exit out and reload.
As to 10 minutes to something like Warzone... no. Just no. An online battle royal type game needs to be fast. It can't be all laid back and calming like Rimworld, the colony/warcrimes simulator.
kadu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure about how things are today, as I only played Warzone during the first couple of months of the release… But the main reason the game took a long time to load back then was shader pre-compilation, and honestly, I prefer that over the massive stuttering mess most other games that skipped this step would become.
tb_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just because there’s worse, doesn’t mean we should accept bad.
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’m sorry but that’s fucking hilarious
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Last COD I played was the new MW, bought it cheap digitally. After fording to download WZ for that shitty launcher, it couldn’t start on the PS5, kept freezing and crashing. After several rounds of back and forth with PS customer service, they finally admitted they don’t have a fix, and gave me back my money.
Will never play touch this shitpile again (and I used to like COD around the old MW and BO times).
Callie@pawb.social 1 year ago
Last I played was Cold War on Xbox, couldn’t even get past “press start to continue” without Xbox Live Gold, the only way I could play single player or zombies was to eithe unplug the Ethernet, or disable the network for the Xbox entirely. Just to start the game.
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That’s fine.
I bought the game on PC and I played it for 2 weeks and then never touched it again. They managed to touch so many things from the original modern warfare 2 that it completely lost its flow. It was really sad to say that the gameplay lost all it’s charm, but oh well.
Good thing you got your money back, it probably wasn’t worth it anyway.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Shitty gamerslop company continues to be shitty and crank out gamerslop
Ari-Zahavi227@kbin.social 1 year ago
amazing
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Is that Serj?
realcaseyrollins 1 year ago
That's hilarious.
I'm a bit miffed that college gaming life has dragged me into the world of AAA games...but at least I've never spent much time in COD
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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Secret300@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Honestly Activision was shit before, just more shit now
Krudler@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worst fear hey