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

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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this the equivalent of lemmy karmawhoring? I can’t see how this is related to the acquisition.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly Activision was shit before, just more shit now

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Worst fear hey

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• BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • thatWeirdGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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”.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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    • Jeffool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 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.

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• FourThirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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?

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  • crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • spooksboots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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?

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  • Ensign_Seitler@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    MechWarrior 2? Man, that takes me back…

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    • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Enemy power up detected

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  • alienangel@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think there are fairly good odds none of my gaming friends have ever bought a CoD game.

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  • badaboomxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My worst fear is that thing with the face of a man which stalks the deep woods.

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  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m just looking for mushrooms dude

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • chaogomu@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • tb_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Last COD I played was the new MW, bought it cheap digitally. After fording 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, they finally admitted they don’t have a fix, and gave me back my money.

  Will never play touch this shitpile again (and I used to like COD around the old MW and BO times).

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  • Callie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Last I played was Cold War on Xbox, couldn’t even get past “press start to continue” without Xbox Live Gold, the only way I could play single player or zombies was to eithe unplug the Ethernet, or disable the network for the Xbox entirely. Just to start the game.

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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• rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shitty gamerslop company continues to be shitty and crank out gamerslop

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• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sorry but that’s fucking hilarious

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• rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No problem, just don’t play that crap.

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• TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Ari-Zahavi227@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  amazing

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• Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that Serj?

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