Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to gaming@lemmy.zip
With the launch of Call of Duty Season 4, Activision quietly put adverts inside loadouts for Black Ops 6 and Warzone, sparking a backlash in the process.
So… They stopped playing right? Because there are a lot of similar games without ads, so why would people just put up with it. Right?
Seriously who is still playing CoD in 2025? Same goes for EA Games. “Wow this game is shit I guess I’ll buy the next one and hope that won’t be shit!” must be what they’re thinking.
There are new humans being created every minute. Those humans are younger than you and your friends who grew up with cod. Those humans may be experiencing the game for the first time. Your group of humans are not superior to younger humans because you were here first.
Name something like warzone dmz and I’ll gladly jump.
I literally just installed cod yesterday because I got bored of my other games.
Civ 6 Apex Black desert RDR2
Looking more for extraction PVP.
Branch out. Expand your horizons. Jesus.
Doesn’t Counter Strike have an extraction type game mode?
Looking more for extraction PVP.
Have you tried Escape From Tarkov?
I’d recommend Hunt Showdown if you’re looking for an extraction shooter. Based in the louisiana bayou in the late 1800s, so the gameplay is pretty unique. The shooting isn’t quite as satisfying as other similar games, but still quite fun.
I’ve been really enjoying The Finals for a while now. It’s fantastic and actually innovative.
ARC Raiders is coming out very soon if you want a really good extraction shooter. There’s also Gray Zone, Escape from Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown, and many others in this genre, all with different twists.
ArmA Reforger I just started playing recently (I own all the other ArmA games but I was waiting on this, since it’s still a work in progress, as are all modern games now though it seems). It’s a platform, like all ArmA games, where you can play anything from the default Conflict game mode, where two teams fight over a map in a war that can last multiple days sometimes, or a new version of a DayZ style, or ArmA Life (basically GTA Roleplay, but it’s existed in ArmA much longer), or so much else.
There’s a ton of games out there. You’ve listed several genres, but all of them with massive budgets. The best games, in my opinion, aren’t these. It’s the smaller/indie games that are willing to try something new, but you have to look for them. There’s been a bunch of civ-likes recently, there’s tons of BRs and Extraction shooter style games (Zero Sievert is a cool solo extraction shooter, for example).
Don’t just stick to the shiny games with big marketing budgets. Go find some gems in the rough and you’ll be greatly rewarded.
The title makes it sound like intrusive product ads when it’s just pictures of bundles for skins and other cosmetics that are currently available. Not nearly as bad as it could be ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s good context, you’re right the title made it sound like they were advertising KFC at startup. But, then again, an ads an ad.
I miss the days where everything was unlockable by just playing the game…
It’s so refreshing opening MW2 and and not having anything locked behind a paywall
People STILL buying CoD or Battlefield games at this point deserve whatever they’ve gladly paid for.
It’s like a mobile game!
Yes
The thing is they want to give us in like how mobile players did. If you ever played codm, I know anyone from this community would pull their eyes out and bleach their eye sockets. The worst part is mobile players like it now, I’ve seen so many kids refuse to play games that don’t have adverts that give them free crates. Adults that spend money for these are even worse. We should always actively talk against this shit.
Yet they still buy shit from Activision!
Just ban it.
Do not stress over some corporation’s ability to harass and degrade you. Acknowledge a business model is shit - and say, fuck that. If they want better profit margins, spend less money, sell more copies.
RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It will never be enough for them. Full priced game is not enough. Battle pass is not enough. Loot boxes are not enough, and advertising in game will not be enough. Have some fucking self respect and stop buying this shit.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They regularly have skins of famous people for $20 worth of in game points.
It is never enough.
loam@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We project infinite growth, and if we can’t reach our goals, we are going to have to drop many of you into the capitalism volcano as sacrifice
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Next stop, spyware!
beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sweet summer child…
vegantomato@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The correct answer right here