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Is this the equivalent of lemmy karmawhoring? I can't see how this is related to the acquisition.
Is this the equivalent of lemmy karmawhoring?
No, because Lemmy has no karma system.
I can’t see how this is related to the acquisition.
Activision fuckups are Microsoft fuckups now. Microsoft and lots on industry observers claimed that Microsoft taking over Activision would be such as good change. Turns out: It wasn't, just as the fullscreen CoD ad on Xbox was not a positive change.
The acquisition has barely even started. I don't think Microsoft has a single say in this games development yet.
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I don't see how a game which was developed pre MS has anything to do with MS fucking up? That's a soceopathic obsession with hating something, 99.99999% of people won't think of blaming a company for this.
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Honestly Activision was shit before, just more shit now
Worst fear hey
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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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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".
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?
MechWarrior 2? Man, that takes me back…
Enemy power up detected
Heat level critical.
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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My worst fear is that thing with the face of a man which stalks the deep woods.
I'm just looking for mushrooms dude
Shitty gamerslop company continues to be shitty and crank out gamerslop
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).
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.
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I'm sorry but that's fucking hilarious
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, but if you're playing rimworld, you're already a masochist.
Just because everything is on fire, my cook has food poisoning, my researcher is punching the boomalope, and my hunter is running from the fire, doesn't mean I've lost control.
No everything is probably okay as long as there's no raid or mech cluster.
Plus, I've learned by now to not have wooden bases, and to keep the flammables and boomalopes on opposite sides of the base. Chemfuel goes over in that little building over there, with a thin roof. Still need to remember that firefoam poppers are a thing.
So it's not a total loss. And that was the highlights of yesterday's play session.
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Look, modding is a game on its own. Getting to play the modded game just means you've already won the main event
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.
I feel there's a good number of people who would just take neither as well though. Yeah, 10m loading is better than intermittent stuttering, but then I better be playing one of the top 10 games of all time if i'm dealing with that.
"playing one of the top 10 games of all time"
You get that dirty sentence away from Activision.
But they don't have to compile shaders every time the game is launched. Only when I install a new content or the first time I install the game.
Just because there's worse, doesn't mean we should accept bad.
Anyone want to bet on this game still outselling the last one?
No problem, just don't play that crap.
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