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.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You know what’s crazy? The original Modern Warfare 3 from 2009 is still $40 on steam. Black Ops 2 from 2012 is $60.

COD pricing is insane. For comparison the Halo MCC which includes six games, two of which are remastered, is $40.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think CoD pricing is affected by the fact that usually, it's mum that's paying for it

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Are zoomers lining up around the block to play the Black Ops 1 campaign? Just seems absurd after over a decade to not drop the price to a reasonable level.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

No, I don't believe that's the reason.

The reason is most likely because they want people to always but the newest game because they don't want to split up their player base.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are smoking unfiltered crack at activision-blizzard. Just don't play them. Or pirate. Not like they are a very wonderful company to their own employees.

[–] DigitalCatcher@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In fact, it's actually better to pirate them and use Plutonium for Multiplayer. This is due to the fact that many pre-Infinite Warfare Call of Duty titles have unpatched RCE vulnerabilities that Activision never bothered to fix, but have been in Plutonium.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20817

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2190/Activision.html

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[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I don't play the game a ton anymore, but back when I was super into it, I bought all four of the DLC out at the time for that exact reason. I rarely even use the cosmetics included, I just think the devs are awesome.

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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".

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[–] FourThirteen@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] Ensign_Seitler@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

MechWarrior 2? Man, that takes me back…

[–] Veneroso@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Enemy power up detected

[–] sours@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Heat level critical.

[–] alienangel@sffa.community 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think there are fairly good odds none of my gaming friends have ever bought a CoD game.

Not that we all play amazingly refined games, there is plenty of junk and regret-ware, and a lot of other FPS games - just no one ever got into CoD.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My worst fear is that thing with the face of a man which stalks the deep woods.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

I'm just looking for mushrooms dude

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 26 points 8 months ago

Shitty gamerslop company continues to be shitty and crank out gamerslop

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Last COD I tried to play was the new MW, bought it cheap digitally. After forcing 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, and wasting hours on reinstalls, they finally admitted they don’t have a fix, and gave me back my money.

Will never touch this shitpile again (and I used to like COD around the old MW and BO times).

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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry but that's fucking hilarious

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Anyone want to bet on this game still outselling the last one?

[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago

No problem, just don't play that crap.

[–] Ari-Zahavi227@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

amazing

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