Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2

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.
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.
- I think CoD pricing is affected by the fact that usually, it's mum that's paying for it
- 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.
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.
- 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

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".

What are you guys even talking about? The games exist within other games? Also why are they reusing names from a decade ago? Is it the same game?
- The contemporary Modern Warfare series is a remake of the original series. At least a general new take on a lot from that series. It isn't 1:1 by far.
  Instead of letting you launch each game individually, or creating a general launcher that you start and then pick the game you want to play... They chose to force players to launch MW2 as a fake hub, and in that game's main menu, click the MW3 option.
  The article says you can tell because apparently if you want to play MW2 you just pick the game type and it starts starving for a match. If you want to play MW3 you have to wait as MW2 shuts down and you wait for MW3 to start, after you already waited for MW2 to start initially.

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?

Nah fam, you and your friends are just getting old. It's the kids these days who are suckers for buying cash-cow and money milking games. Because they are kids and don't give a shit about money with respect to quality.
- I think it's a little about how they don't know better either, and there's no better options. You and I remember when multiplayer games used to be great, but if nowadays they're all shit, what option do they have?
MechWarrior 2? Man, that takes me back…
- Enemy power up detected
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.
I am.on the same page, i finished the campaign on my x360, then tried just once multi-player, and it was full of cheaters.

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).

That's fine.
I bought the game on PC and I played it for 2 weeks and then never touched it again. They managed to touch so many things from the original modern warfare 2 that it completely lost its flow. It was really sad to say that the gameplay lost all it's charm, but oh well.
Good thing you got your money back, it probably wasn't worth it anyway.

I'm sorry but that's fucking hilarious

Anyone want to bet on this game still outselling the last one?

No problem, just don't play that crap.

amazing

Is that Serj? Or is it Vano from STALKER?

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.
- 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.
- 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.
Just because there's worse, doesn't mean we should accept bad.