>blizzard devs and management kill PvE for overwatch and seem to think "oh dont worry there will be missions instead?" makes it better
>activision lawyers send out cease and desist letters to people keeping old CoD games alive because their servers are full of hackers, just in time to announce a new game that those people wont buy
why does it feel like companies these days dont even know their customers anymore, to the point that they seem surprised when they get backlash?
How is it so hard for these retarded garden gnomes to realize that people are going back and playing old stuff because the new shit stinks
The CoD they're trying to play was mediocre too, fucks sake
Nu-CoD is an algorithm disguised as a game, I do not see how anyone could enjoy it nowadays unless they're 70 IQ slave cattle
im convince actiblizz is entirely ran by out of touch boomers and number crunchers who think "if we shut down all the alternatives theyll have to buy our new game" type shit with no one to tell them how dumb that is. its not even like theyre even losing money on microtransactions because the people who even cared enough to buy them are still buying them right now in warzone
>algorithm (...) 70 IQ slave cattle
That's the exact demographic that triple A studios aim for
>70 IQ slave cattle
so morons?
Well, yes, I know that
It's just immensely disappointing.
Bobby Kotick didn't expect the sale to not be done by now.
Bobby Kotick now needs to make a meaningful quarter in the free time before the sale happens so he gets a bigger golden parachute.
So he's doing all the shit that might hurt the image of the company later to get a few extra bucks now.
I had a friend who I used to play games with. Like, lots of various games all the time over the years. Recently, he started playing cod warzone with his cousin. Now it's the only game he plays. I watch him log in and play for 10 hours straight, just in the fucking meat grinder never improving at all.
I miss my game bro. Watching someone amass literally a thousand hours in the last 6 months has been sad as fuck. Sometimes I send him a message offering to play something and he writes back "sorry man I'm in ranked wz" and it just so deeply pathetic
If you play cod, you are the blackest retard gorilla moron in the world
Nu Cod is basically turn your brain off and keep grinding those battlepasses, it's fun for until you play all the gamemodes then if you have a brain you never touch it again, ranked is laughably worse, even mobile cod does a better ranked system by giving you shit each tier but it does end up grinding to a halt once you get on higher levels due to shit exp win pay and massive exp losses.
>business has been about making as much money as possible
black rock egs funding changed all of that shit.
>surprised when they get backlash
Meanwhile in War Thunder
holy FUCKing shit, what did they do this time??
AHAHAH holy fucking shit, what a thing to admit to. Wonder if they were forced to or something, but it sure as fuck explains some things with the game. I remember the really early days, flying only, when unlocking shit was pretty quick and easy in the lower tiers, very similar to WoT up to tier 4-5. Playing the game now days is a fucking slog, everything is slow as shit, research especially, but money too I guess.
From the looks of it Gaijin was going to blow up the economy and said at the bottom of their blog post "Review bombs will change nothing"
https://warthunder.com/en/news/8260-how-progression-and-economy-is-built-in-f2p-games-and-war-thunder-in-particular-en
I think they announced today they'll revert the changes
>Player progression is essential. You can't give a player everything at once, because it will overwhelm and make the game very difficult for them and they will just leave it either immediately or almost immediately.
Fuck right off lmao. The statement is very true is has a point, but not in the context of this damn game.
>Start playing at vehicle type of your choice
>Unlock different vehicles of your type, all having very similar gameplay in the end
>B-BUT IT WILL CONFUSE PEOPLE
>western devs trying to not piss off their fanbases challenge
Jesus christ what happened
Black Ops 3 was the best future shooter they made and only gays hated it. Worst thing it did was making P2W weapons.
>modding AAA multiplayer games
You had it coming.
people have been modding them for decades, you retarded zoomer
>people keeping old CoD games alive
Like 0.5% of cod players ever play custom maps. I've never seen a malicious hacker in the game. Nobody cares about this, gay. The mod wasn't even playable so literally nothing was lost.
>I've never seen a malicious hacker in the game
black ops 3 literally got a patch in march of this year to "address" vulnerabilities and there are older games that have the same problem. if they shut down this then whats stopping them from shutting down plutonium or other mods that have been around for years? theyre literally just doing this shit out of spite that black ops 3 is still popular
no it went on sale for like 5 bunks in the past few months
blops 2 was one that had the same thing happen
>-11k 30d gain
>every other title, including mw2020, increased in player counts
fucking lmao, even waw and bo1 has a big ish increase, surprised how alive those still are. Makes me wonder why CoD4 isn't on the list, prolly cuz of the naming fuckery thanks to the ""new version"".
>that black ops 3 is still popular
I wonder, why is it so popular? I always remembered it as the game with the bonkers (treyarch special) yet fun story, also having a god awful PC port.
Bo3 has a pretty dedicated zombies map mods community which is what accounts for most of the playerbase.
>10,812
Best part being that these are only the steam numbers, not bnet or console, who knows what's going on there. This is a damn (partly) f2p too, making this even funnier.
Shut your whore fucking mouth you cunt. You did not play BO3 on Steam at ALL from that statement. 3 out of 4 games had an aimbotting gay and the one game that didn't instead would literally remote close your game out by using vulnerabilities. BOiii Client circumvented all of this and made the game instantly playable and enjoyable, had a great server browser too, and even for being closed testing for a bit, was actually decently populated in the morning and afternoon. This was the single only way to play BO3 and now it's dead because of Activision.
So? If the developers dont want people modding their game, then gamers should respect that decision and not mod the game. You wouldn't appreciate someone adding extensions to your house without your consent.
have a nice day, bootlicking contrarian cuck. what's next, a food analogy?
>0.5%
used to be very fucking different, at least regarding the PC community (obviously). Shame how things turned to shit
>used to be very fucking different
Who the fuck cares? Activision didn't kill modding, it's been dead for years. It was dead before I even bought the game, and I've still had plenty of fun with it. It's not worth sifting through the garbage maps to find something decent.
I know you are trying to be facetious but let me help you out
id be more like you have a business selling blueprints for houses, blueprints that cost hundreds of millions to make at this point, and watching someone do a few amateur scribbles on one then give it away for free.
the AAA multiplayer shooter has only been a thing for about a decade bro.
>friendly fire
ouch
>We will make a diablo game for mobiles!
gotta force that woke agenda somehow.
>mod call of duty
>microchad locks you out of your microsoft account (trademark)
>you will no longer be able to use bing or microsoft windows, worse ban then saying a swear word on xbox live
heh Gankerirgins thought they could get away with it
they don't even own it yet, retard, this is down on activision (bobby) and blizzard, not microshift. but keep your hate boner up, snoy chud.
meds, now
great job because instead of making people want to buy your products you will just receive less buyers which mean less money for you.
politics -----------> making money
that is how modern billion dollar companies behave, for some fucking reason. hardly 20 years ago it was all about "How do we make customers happy, so they buy more of our shit, what do they want??" now they're openly hateful towards their customers, on fucking mass. Just look at Disney has a prime example, see how they act towards people disliking their products, even if it's simply for them being trash and badly written, nothing related to politics.
I don't know where the fuck you're from but business has been about making as much money as possible for longer than you've been alive
>break tos for game
>company takes legal action
All you fuck nut retards need to learn to read. I don't give a fuck what you think of X company or how bad/unethical they are. FAct is they have a ToS you agree to when starting the game which clearly states the do's and don'ts while playing, as well as what options they have to take when/if you break them. Get fucked by the legal system you hate so much you useless shitstain waste of life.
>I LOVE EATING SHIT I LOVE LICKING BOOT SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BLIZZARD SAMA LET ME SUCK YOUR DIABLO CHINK COCK
>modding never been an issue in the past, esp in games with official modding support, or even half assed support through the cummunity (cod5 and older)
>blops 3 even has modding support added after the fact (after all the DLCs were out)
>people continue playing game in response
>makes activision upset, so they say "FUCK YOU, STOP USING THE TOOLS WE GAVE YOU AND IMPROVING THEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
but keep licking that boot, zoomer
ABK is trying to make themselves as hated as possible to make people support their shitty merger
I think they're doing this out of spite because MW2022 was a big ass flop. I honestly thought it would've been better than MW2019 which I actually enjoyed a decent bit.
This shit felt like a step in the wrong direction in many ways. It's a shame that they can't make a good game when they know damn well how to. Like the second guy said, MW22 especially feels like an algorithm to waste time and money on.
RIP SM2, guess I'm playing plutonium for the rest of my life when I wanna play COD.
>It's a shame that they can't make a good game when they know damn well how to
at least for treyarch, i think they still can make good games its just that it doesnt matter now because activision is profit over enjoyment at this point so its nonstop meddling that ends up hurting the game just like black ops 4 and cold war ended up