Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has this basic grammatical error and no excuse.
I’d be fine if I saw this in Expedition 33; that’s made by a small team of native French speakers, it could easily slip by. Yet I doubt I would find an error like this in that game.
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So you’re saying that YOU could ACTUALLY care less /s
I could care less.
Its nice to know there are things they could care less about, and want to see the senator anyway. Good on them.
[**Compulsory David Mitchell**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw)
Spelling and grammatical mistakes happen. I’ve been a writer on a half-dozen games. There’s always a margin for error.
English is my native language and I see nothing wrong with this. Care to explain why you think this is a grammatical error?
This is the way people talk in America. A CIA operative will speak like the people around him do, not in “proper” language. Do you want him to speak the Queen’s English? That would be out of character.
There could be a typo in every other sentence of the storyline and it’d still make massive amounts of revenue just for the multiplayer
Some programmer left that in so they could later be paid to fix it. How dare you try to take away their work! /s
Maybe they are trying to illustrate that the character is a moron.
The average CoD player probably couldn’t care less about minor grammatical errors in their FPS.
That’s quite the poor quality quote
This is grammatically correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less.
>**Correct Usage: Either**
>We understand why could care less sticks in your craw: it appears to mean something rather opposed to what it purports to mean. The person who says “I could care less” is, on the face of it, stating “Yes, it would be possible for me to care less deeply about this matter than I do, and therefore I am betraying some unspecified degree of care.” But if you are the kind of person who cries out against this abomination we must warn you that people who go through life expecting informal variant idioms in English to behave logically are setting themselves up for a lifetime of hurt.
Happens if you cheap out on writing or curtail it in production.
Expedition 33 was NOT made by a small team.
__One of the leadership role guys already addressed this and asked people to stop saying a team of 30 made the game.__
That said, this is still an excellent example of companies charging you more while cutting costs.
Edit:
[Sauce](https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/no-geoff-keighley-clair-obscur-expedition-33-was-not-made-by-a-team-of-under-30-developers-and-devs-say-repeating-the-myth-is-a-dangerous-path/)
It’s not really grammatical error, but moreso common misconception that almost everyone is guilty of. It annoys me too but it doesn’t really fall under anyone’s job overview. If there was a typo, then sure, someone made a mistake, but this is just a common term that’s mispoken and misused often to the point where it relays the same intent. A lot of phrases we use nowadays are just mispoken things that we accepted as correct.
It’s not a grammatical mistake, first of all. Second, it’s a commonly said phrase. So there’s nothing wrong with that being the dialogue option. It may even be deliberate.
It’s a very common phrase to say “I could care less” it’s derived from being sarcastic so it is a very common thing to say “I could care less” and “I couldn’t care less” to mean the same thing
I mean typos and mistakes happen and they can also slip through controlling since our brain tends to automatically adjust that stuff while reading.
From the bottom of my heart, go touch some grass. Get outside. Put the controller down and read a book. Do *anything* that will stop you from seeing someone relatively innocuous and feeling the need to get on a soap box about it.
The real crime is that poor dialogue. Looks like a child wrote those two responses
This is the same multi-billion dollar franchise which made maps in Pakistan but couldn’t be bothered to use the right language on signs and billboards. All you had to do was search “Pakistan language” on Google 🤣
When you’re too fancy for “I don’t give a fuck.”
No platinum trophy is lazy work
Thays not a mistake, that’s something Americans say. I mean, as a kid it always annoyed me to no end. Obviously if you say you *couldn’t* care less, it means you don’t care at all, you should be saying that.. But I have heard countless people say “I could care less” over the years. While it isn’t correct for what you’re intending, it’s understood. Much like people saying “literally” to mean *virtually*.
Does it make it smart to say that? No, not really. But we Americans ain’t never been that smart.
Wait, people actually say that though. All the time. Are you saying everyone in a call of duty game should speak with perfect grammar?
Game of Thrones did this one too. I hate it.
Im sorry, but im confused
Literally unplayable
I am more concerned with the stupid dialogue.
As much as I fucking hate it, words and languages do change and evolve over time. I believe “I could care less” has been added to the dictionary and defined as meaning the same as “I couldn’t care less” when used that way. We just have to keep resisting 😂
It may be a hint that the guy pretending to be a journalist is not really one, but just a brutish thug with little comand of the language.
Looks spot on for an american character
Is it an error? Or is it realism? I’ve heard more people misuse the phrase than correctly use it.
Americans say this phrase this way, its wrong but i think the we’re past the point of Americans caring about being wrong
Literally UNPLAYABLE
Semantics man. If you’re gonna criticise activision do it for something worthwhile like replacing va’s jobs, ai, shabby business practices, no discounts for games which have been out a decade. I could go on but for something as silly as grammar? Old men scream at clouds ig
This is peak reddit.
That isn’t a grammatical error. Both ways of saying it are grammatically correct. It’s also very weird to get hung up on *an idiom* being wrong, when both ways of saying it can idioms.
“I could care less, but it would be hard”. That’s where this commonly said phrase comes from. It’s been shortened over the years, so we are used to only hearing part of the whole phrase. So, it isn’t incorrect to say, people simply don’t realize that the saying is part of a larger phrase.
Not really a grammatical mistake. Many people say I could care less and believe that is the saying.
Well, he’s American, so..
it isnt like the dialogue isnt believable if it’s a common mistake
It is, unfortinately, a fairly common way of saying it though. At this point it’s one of those phrases that just isn’t worth correcting because every other person says it.
Boy I sure hope someone got fired over this blunder.
Made me REEEEE thank you
It may be grammatically incorrect but is it really wrong? People say that all the time. I’d consider it a colloquialism.
Until I clicked through to see your explanation I just thought your character was gonna fuck a senator.
it’s a thing people say, it’s idiomatic. it’s like if someone said ‘don’t wanna’ which is completely incorrect but the sort of thing people say.