Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons
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My attitude was: If I’m going to spend money on the digital deluxe edition of the game, I’m sure as hell going to get my money’s worth.
By admitting to the sunk cost fallacy, you’ve really only proven my point. You’re gonna find ways to defend the game more than you should, unconsciously or not.
I know it’s hard, but in this current era of live service games recording metrics beyond just purchased copies of the game, you should vote with your play time, regardless of how much you’ve already put into the game.
wrote last edited by [email protected]But I’m not proving your point. Nowhere have I defended the game.
I’m saying that I made my bed, so I’m lying in it. The game was an investment I made and so I was getting my money’s worth. It was a mental decision I made before buying the game.
It helped that I like Call of Duty and so enjoyed myself for a good while, despite Black Op 6 being a total mess that’s hemorrhaging casual players and now hardcore players because they’ve shat the bed with Black Ops 6 one too many times (they, being Activi$ion and Treyarch).
Though I like Call of Duty, I’m not a fanboy who will defend the game. I’m a simple 9-5er casual player who turns the game on, has a bit of fun working to a camo goal, then turns the game off when I can’t take being smoked by the supposed “skill” based matchmaking anymore.
I’m trying to show you that it’s way more nuanced than you’re making it out to be.
In regards to the sunk cost “fallacy,” it was not a fallacy when I first made my decision to purchase the game. I’m only recently at a fork in the road with this game due to its problems making it less and less fun for me. I mentioned earlier that I played the first beta. Don’t you think I would’ve not purchased the game if I hadn’t had fun then?
I have no remorse for my purchase of the game whatsoever. Many hours of entertainment have been had. However, it will be an actual sunk cost fallacy for my purchase of season 4 Blackcell if I’m not enjoying it and feel the need to continue. I’m currently at that fork in the road right now and haven’t decided whether to put the game down or not. Most likely will though if I can’t find a way to make it fun. If I decided to anyway, then it would be the sunk cost fallacy. Not for Black Ops 6 as a whole, but for Season 4 Blackcell.
Also, if you wish to throw fallacies around, I must call you out on the cherry picking fallacy. The part you quoted had neatly been cushioned above it and below it with reasoning as to why my purchase decision wasn’t an example of the sunken cost fallacy, yet you seemed to have ignored the whole context and just plucked that part of my post out in order to what, feel like a smug debater or something? Lol.
Congrats on getting me to repeat myself, I guess.
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Next it'll be micro transactions for reloading.
And people will pay for it.
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Ya know, I told myself when they brought Verdansk back that I wasn't gonna spend 70 fucking dollars for BO6 just to help level up guns, and even though I was tempted I didn't do it, even when it was on sale. Shit like this is what reminds me as to why I shouldn't buy it. Yeah, I'll play your game because my friends and I enjoy Verdansk, it's a good map and is fun for us to play, but I'll be damned if I give them any money for it.
They locked one of the meta assault rifles in a season 1 battle pass (Krig) meaning you literally cannot unlock it and have to buy a weapon bundle to use it. You can pick the gun up off the ground, but not make a loadout with it without spending money. Luckily I've earned several of their free CoD points from previous free versions of the battle pass to unlock a bundle for it, but I shouldn't fucking have to do that.
I'll just cost them money to host me on thier servers now, until they remove Verdansk again and I'm not gonna play Warzone.
The fact that they aren't even try to hide it and just overtune the new gun so much and people pay money for it is so disgusting and i don't even want to waste time on that ptw garbage
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honest question. What's stopping mainstream gamers from just playing the best codblops for the rest of their lives? Is there really any draw to these newer releases every time?
The cod cycle is pretty much the same as fifa games. They make a new game, the hype is big, everyone plays it because the cool streamers play it. Then the hype dies down, people realise it's the same game, they don't want to work on the game and they get by with selling micro transactions until the game dies completely just in time for the new game to come out and the cycle repeats. It's quite fascinating to be honest that it works every time.
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That's why I only play AAAA games
Eh, i'm waiting for AAAAA games.
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Next it'll be micro transactions for reloading.
I’m surprised that you don’t need to buy bullets.
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Reading that reddit comment section was depressing. Seeing people making excuses and saying just dont buy them. Redditors are way above the general player base in terms of awareness. Became they can actually have long form structured discussion about the state of the game. Even then the response is still "this sucks and its kind of greedy".
Seeing the things people put up with is blackpilling. It actually spreads over the whole industry. I wish I hated technology and gaming so I wouldn't care watching it be farmed by corporations.
Honestly I think the fact it got enough backlash that Treyarch removed it is a good thing.
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Ya know, I told myself when they brought Verdansk back that I wasn't gonna spend 70 fucking dollars for BO6 just to help level up guns, and even though I was tempted I didn't do it, even when it was on sale. Shit like this is what reminds me as to why I shouldn't buy it. Yeah, I'll play your game because my friends and I enjoy Verdansk, it's a good map and is fun for us to play, but I'll be damned if I give them any money for it.
They locked one of the meta assault rifles in a season 1 battle pass (Krig) meaning you literally cannot unlock it and have to buy a weapon bundle to use it. You can pick the gun up off the ground, but not make a loadout with it without spending money. Luckily I've earned several of their free CoD points from previous free versions of the battle pass to unlock a bundle for it, but I shouldn't fucking have to do that.
I'll just cost them money to host me on thier servers now, until they remove Verdansk again and I'm not gonna play Warzone.
You can unlock older battle pass guns with the Armory feature but it is quite well hidden for some reason...
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I haven't play Call of Lootbox in a long while. Bet they still haven't done anything to fix spawns.
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I haven't play Call of Lootbox in a long while. Bet they still haven't done anything to fix spawns.
Well it’s no longer Call of Lootbox. It’s Call of “Micro” Transactions.
