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.

  • Scrubbles
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    4725 days ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]
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      625 days ago

      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.

      • Cethin
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        324 days ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          All the games I gave you are all diff genres of games and I’m asking for a specific game to switch from the warzone dmz since we are taking about cod.

          • FiveMacs
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            725 days ago

            Then continue being treated like a piece of shit. Honestly nobody really cares that you want to play advertising and paywall games, just don’t complain about how much you have to pay just to get access to everything that’s already in game the game.

            • @[email protected]
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              925 days ago

              Where did I complain? Jfc. Immature.

              I asked for a suggestion, you have one, and I gave you a reasonable response.

          • @[email protected]
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            Ok let’s try some things for you:

            Instead of Civ, try ‘Shadows of Forbidden Gods’. It flips the script and you’re an evil cult trying to conque the world.

            Endless Legend is a really good Civ-like too.

            I’ve never played Apex, and don’t know what Extraction is. I also don’t play PvP.

            Re Black Desert … idk, Conan is a fun game. No idea how close those are though.

            We just don’t play the same genres, so it’s hard to give suggestions.

        • @[email protected]
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          325 days ago

          Wanted to but not on steam and only on the website. I’m not paying for a game that I can’t return if I don’t like.

            • @[email protected]
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              325 days ago

              I mean we could also refuse to play that game due to the absolute shitty monetization they tried to force onto people.

              A lot of YouTubers straight up stopped playing because of it.

          • Cethin
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            124 days ago

            I think it’s coming to Steam with 1.0 soon.

        • @[email protected]
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          225 days ago

          Damn CS has extraction now? I’ll check that out, haven’t played since source came out.

          Graphic were so shitty that they thought I was hacking while in water.

          • Cethin
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            24 days ago

            They did years ago when PUBG was new (not extraction, but battle royale). It hasn’t been updated for CS2 I’m pretty sure, so you can’t easily play it anymore.

          • @[email protected]
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            225 days ago

            I’m not really a CS gamer and haven’t even played CS2. The last time I played was to try out their new extraction/Battle Royale mode in CS:GO.

            I might be off base here and describing it wrong since I’m not very familiar with the genre so apologies in advance

      • @[email protected]
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        424 days ago

        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.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      724 days ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        624 days ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      425 days ago

      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)_/¯

      • Scrubbles
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        725 days ago

        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.