The crazy part isn’t that people want to be able to disable that. The crazy part is that they want to pay to disable them…
No you guys, that should just be an option, no questions asked. Included in the options menu for… Well, whatever the asking price of the base game is. Also known as included in the base game.
Today’s consumers for ya.
The word consumer is so demeaning… But yes.
Humans are actually the only real producers in the world if you think about it. Everything around you is built by other humans.
We rarely think about that.
The word consumer is so demeaning…
I doubt they were trying to be complimentary.
The word consumer is so demeaning
It should be, and it is accurate in this case.
People are offering to pay as a hyperbole to try to tell Activision how much they want to disable the skins. Nobody actually is willing to pay extra for that. Its like dangling a carrot in front of a corporations face.
“We want to do X so badly, we are willing to pay for it,” which translates to " We want to do X so badly, we are willing to do the last possible option that we want in order to be able to do X."
tells the oligarchy they’ll pay to not be annoyed
acts surprised when not being annoyed becomes a subscription service
I really dislike being reductive so take what I say with a grain of salt:
I am not surprised that the people who regularly buy the COD series with all of it’s monetary practices for the past decade are asking to buy a feature. They’d be more shocked if you could features/updates/qol without buying it. Habituation, de-sensitisation, whatever - they’re the whales that fuel the decline in AAA games.
People are offering to pay for it because they understand that providing that feature would potentially cause lost revenue for Call of Duty, since (theoretically) players are buying skins so other players can see them.
I imagine there are a lot of potential solutions (I can think of a few at least) but Activision probably think the lowest risk is to do nothing.
I haven’t been playing competitive FPS games for a long time, but they used to be a dime a dozen. There must be some kind of alternative multiplayer FPS that you could just play instead if you’re not happy with Call of Duty.
I have a friend like this, well, he was like this for years and years, and I get it. You want to follow the hype and excitement of the greater gaming public when a game is new, but it’s just so fleeting when you could go play nearly anything similar with an active playerbase basically… forever.
I am hoping modern games get so bad people finally start having halo 2 lan parties again.
You can just play Halo 2 multiplayer.
It’s right there. They’re stabbing and shooting all day long just waiting for you.
I still haven’t had a better arena shooter experience than back in the xbox lan over the internet days
I know some people kinda liked that XDefiant game, or The Finals
Seeing all the stupid skins running around is part of what soured me on PlanetSide 2.
Next year: pay to cut an opponent’s frame rate in half, as a bidding system. Whoever is offering the least premium coin gets the debuff.
Then don’t play the game. Cosmetics like that are essentially CoD’s bread and butter, and have been for decades. I don’t disagree that it’s gotten WAY out of hand, but that’s also why I don’t play COD anymore.
I don’t think you know what “decades” means.
50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town…
5 Nov 2007
Didn’t have skins except for on the weapons, and you had to earn those. One of the first games ever with selectable perks. It was such a breath of fresh air after years of World War 2 games. World at War afterwards was the first one with zombies though, and it had tanks in the big multi player maps. It was only 17 years ago… video games were amazing. I stopped playing after the first black ops. It is just like any other EA sports franchise.
World at War was the best one, what do you mean?
Though I stopped at WaW, then played Advanced Warfare (which was cool I guess), Infinite (which I actually really liked), and WW2 (which was honestly pretty bad especially by comparison to WaW).
You’re asking the average cod player to stop playing? They are unable to. It’s the reason why the series is where it is, its playerbase is… not the smartest.
