Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: ‘At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game’ – IGN
Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: ‘At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game’ – IGN
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This is what they get. Anyone buying cod should know better
Stop playing cod
CoD always felt like a mobile game the moment the goofy skins became a thing
This is what made them think that? It wasnt the 3-5 ads to buy some stupid bundle or battlepass or sticker pack or music pack when they fired up the game and in between each round?!
Sells micro transaction currency and has ads, sounds like a mobile game to be…oh wait you also pay $70 for the base game.
I played BO6 when I had 20 min to kill. It was okay for what it was. Then when this new season came out dedicated to weed I was like, eh I’m good.
Don’t get me wrong, nothing wrong with weed and I partake myself, but I don’t really need it in every aspect of that game so I uninstalled it.
And ya’all dumb motherfuckers keep buying it so why would they stop, it’s free advertising for them. Gotta be some parallels between MAGA and COD gamers, keep handing out money no matter the experience.
No remorse
And yet they keep on buying!
Maybe they should just buy the next one, clean slate and all that.
What if… People stop buying the games
Uninstall, don’t buy again. Don’t play (aka: didn’t even pirate that crap). Zero engagement, no players.
They’ll stop or they’ll find another industry to ruin.
Yeah I quit buying COD years ago. It didn’t even feel like a game anymore, it was a marketplace for useless shit that also happened to have a game.
It felt like there was an ad for skins after every single match.
Didn’t steam say they would remove any game with ads in it? Or was it AI?
*”Quietly”*
Warzone has always been a pile of shite to me but this just puts the cherry on top.
Yeah just stop playing it if you don’t like it. I did.
The first Cod I played in like a decade was MWII(2022) its just the same damn game as it was a back then but with obnoxious MTX shoved in your face from every angle, I’ve seen F2P games with more reasonable monetization while Cod has the nerve to charge $70($80 going forward) on top of the egregious MTX.
The people who buy Cod and Sports games every year and drop money on the MTX are ruining the rest of the industry because it shows these corporations they can sell you garbage every year shoved full of MTX.
But guess what, people are still going to buy CoD down the road and they know that, so why would they need to put in effort?
“players hate it” not enough to stop buying it tho. So what difference does it make lol. Let me know when people actually stop buying the game then this article will be meaningful. I’ve been hearing people bitch about Call of Duty for over a decade and it has not made a dent in their sales.
Battle pass. Upgraded battle pass. Paid shop. No way to earn currency. Paid event passes. Full priced base game.
They really hit all the greed check boxes. Only thing they’re really missing is lootboxes.
[Remind me when the community votes with their wallet.](https://i.imgur.com/NyXJtlc.jpeg)
People can act like it’s a big deal. But if they’re still buying the game, they’re telling Activsion it’s ok.
It’s just one more greedy step. Everything has been ok so far, so I don’t see them stopping over this.
Some players will complain, the rest will cope and say “it’s not that bad” or “well they have to make money somehow”. People will lap it up regardless. There will be no downside for Activision and other companies will start doing the same thing. Rinse and repeat with the next anti-consumer practice.
COD is cancer it is the root of everything wrong with gaming over the last 20 years.
That is why Microsoft is having a bad time with their gaming division. They looked at mobile gaming as the future and turned console gaming into a mobile landfill. Sony and Nintendo won’t be far behind.
People still play call of duty?
Wow haha, that’s super low. But people were already paying for skin ads haha.
They’ll keep doing it because idiots keep paying for it.
Lol **it is** a mobile game
STOP BUYING THE GAMES YOU DUMMIES FOR FUCK’S SAKE WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY’LL STOP THIS SHIT WHEN YOU KEEP BUYING THE GAMES?!
It’s so sad to see what has happened to Activision and EA. Two game companies, founded on the premises of giving game creators more freedom and independence, going against corporatized practices, now fully immersed into becoming exactly that which they rebelled against. Very sad.
The people who play this non stop and will gladly pay $30 for a skin will not care about this.
Haha
What kind of ads though? Like for stuff that CoD sells? No big deal IMO. But if the ads are for like Staples and McDonalds or whatever yeah that’s kinda fucked.
IDK though it’s super common for products to advertise their own products. My PS4 has tons of ads when I load it up. And a lot of them aren’t for Sony stuff either. Ads for Apple TV and shit haha.
We (used to) pay for cable and it’s not like the premium channels didn’t have commercials. Maybe if you were watching a movie or something but sometimes they still had ad breaks. Not to mention the roll of ads that plays before and after them. Or what about at the cinema where you’re literally paying and get bombarded by ads before the movies?
Ads are a part of entertainment. No big deal IMO. So I guess I’ve changed my own mind xD
Any game you pay full price for SHOULD NOT in any way have adverts. It’s a disgrace.
I can’t wait to shoot my State Farm M4 Rifle with my Ray Ban 4x Scope. Just after I finish watching my door dash ad between respawning, hold on let me switch my Burger King Have It Your Way loadout.
If I was the Activision CEO just give him a couple free skins and they’ll will shut up
Everyone does everything so “quietly” these days.
It’s call of duty, what did you expect?
They won’t stop playing/ spending money so Activision won’t care if they hate it