News - Warzone 2 Is Failing And It Could Not Be More Deserved
Yes, because this game's a DLC, Call of Duty is really struggling right now; they're really hitting that limping spot. Players are no longer in the skin Rush anymore; we're not trying to buy skin; we no longer give a crap about Fomo. Fortnite proved that because they kept releasing OG skins inside of the item store, so players were like, It doesn't matter; I'll just wait for it to come back around.
It's simple: Call of Duty. Activision, you guys got too greedy. Instead of focusing on selling us a game that was good, had quality gameplay loops, and had quality multiplayer experiences, you guys instead focused on stores and selling us DLCs for games that already exist. When you bite the hand that feeds you, the hand's not going to feed you anymore, and that's what's happening: the player base, that's us, is no longer going out of our way to buy things inside of the game.
There are multiple reasons for this: the economy, inflation. The fact that these degenerates working for Activision decided that every skin needs to be valued at $20, plus Canadian, starts to really weigh on the players themselves. I often feel like I'm being forced into the item shop more than anything else, considering whenever I start opening this premium game—by the way, this game that I spent $70 on.
The first thing I'm greeted with is a store ad, then I got to click through the overly convoluted menu to then get into a game where all I see is a bunch of skins running around. I'm not really seeing a lot of variety anymore. It seems like everybody's kind of just running Halloween skins, probably because those are the coolest ones.
Let's be real, but overall, players are spending way less time inside Call of Duty. That's just a resounding fact: when you release a Call of Duty game and you don't immediately become the number one selling game of the year when you normally do, there's a big problem when, less than a month after launch, you have to offer the game at a 30% discount before the Christmas season.
There's a big problem. Let's put it this way: if this happened to any other game, we would mark that sale as immediate. Bad Omen, think about it: how many times have you seen a game release and then immediately gone straight to the discount bin? Well, that's exactly what's happening now, except that we don't really have brick-and-mortar discount bins anymore, so going on sale immediately after launch is a terrible sign, especially with a game like Call of Duty.
To me, it makes me happy. It makes me so happy to know that Call of Duty is finally getting hit where it hurts in the wall. We, the players, are sick and tired of spmm eomm. The multiple different things that are making our games not fun anymore, the things that they're doing deliberately to drive us to the item store, driving us to pay more money to Activision, there used to be a time inside gaming, and I know you young people aren't going to really remember it, but you used to have to get a game, and that game was good or bad based on its own merits.
Let's give an example: everybody remembers Mario 64 because it wasn't an absolute masterpiece upon launch. The game worked as a game and didn't ask you for anything other than the upfront cost of buying that game. Now, look at a game like No Man's Sky. That game was an absolute abysmal fail on launch and took a very long time to pick up its player base, but they did it with constant updates and without asking the players for more money.
Look at Call of Duty. Now Call of Duty has released the same game for 5 years in a row since Modern Warfare 2019. So the player base is now split across five games. They then split the player base further by having zombies. The campaign and the multiplayer, as well as War Zone and Rebirth Island, split us up another five times.
They then added spmm, which would split us up even more, and now they have e, which is splitting us up even more, meaning that the player base and the variation in the game plays are no longer there. That's why players are now leaving in mass droves. It's quite simple. It's quite simple: if there's no entertainment factor to the game, then players are going to move on to wherever they get their entertainment from, and in a game that is overly manipulated, as Call of Duty is to force you into the item shop, players are going to leave even more.
So now that money is tight and we're in the holiday season, players don't want to go to these pay-to-win games, which means that Call of Duty is not pay-to-win but 100%. Is Have you ever seen the root skin? Have you ever played War Zone and been killed by the metag guns that don't exist unless you buy the blueprint?
That way, you can go buy that blueprint and have an absolutely fun time crapping on the people that don't have money. It's so much fun crapping on poor people, except for the poor, who are now starting to become the majority. We're tired of the stuff in article games. We're tired of the skin, and we're tired of the constant asking for money.
It's almost like going to the intersection and having that guy that stands at the Meridian bagging for money at your window. Except for now, it's in your own house and inside your article games. Call of Duty has no problem showing you your battle pass every 7 seconds and showing you unlocks. If you didn't buy the battle pass every 7 seconds at the end of every game, you could have gotten this if you just gave us some money for the battle pass.
We would give you this item that doesn't matter; these morons over to Activision remove the deaths from your leaderboard to then sell you the kill death tracker to for the side of your gun in the game, entity. That's right, you want your kill-death tracker. You have to go buy it. It used to just be in the game, but now you have to buy it.
You got double XP tokens, you got double weapon XP tokens, which you can buy, and you have skins that cost a million dollars, yet they didn't even take the basics—the basic foundations of the game—and make it work. We have latency issues. We have packet bursts, constant crashes, lag, and absolutely abysmal ping lobbies.
You can go from having a great ping all at once to having no ping at all at the same time, and let's be real here. The game is quite average; I would actually argue that it is below average. The matchmaking experience has done nothing but other than Garner app absolute depression inside of its player base, hence why they're having to go to extremes like releasing a free-to-play weekend slightly after launch and giving a 30% discount slightly after launch.
They need the sales to go up because they're about to get their PP slapped by the good old CEOs and stockholders over at Activision. Their investors are starting to get quite mad. The majority, that is, us, the average player, are starting to scream out and say, Hey, we're not buying your crap; we're not giving you more money.
