So I see this game. Let me sum up what I actually see:
- Reviews are mixed: not a great start
- Requires 3rd-party account: fuck that
- 60 euros base game: expensive, especially when the game has mixed reviews
- 175 euros DLC’s: are you fucking kidding me? On top of 60 euros for the base game, there’s another 175 fees for content?
- purchasable CoD points: so pay to win?
And they don’t understand why people pirate, run away from AAA games and go for indie games instead.
This is just a random example. I’ve quit playing COD after Modern Warfare.
To end this positively: I recently started playing Necesse which is really nice, and I started playing an old time favorite again after a long time: World of Goo. Both worth my money :)
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Greed destroys ALL abolish Micro-TRASH-Actions.
- This game was not a good COD.
- This game was released in 2021, so it’s like if you buy now FIFA 2021 or NBA 2021, nobody is playing it.
- The 175€ DLC is just cosmetics. Cammos for the weapons, skins operators and so on. Not needed.
- COD Points are just to buy cosmetics like the included in the 175€ DLC, so it’s not pay to win. Just pay to look “cool”.
PS: Don’t buy this shit.
Take a look at the reviews, and find this insanity on the top:
need to be connected to online services even when you just want to play singleplayer campaign, and keep getting connection errors.
Thanks, I’m out.
So in theory… you can not even play single-player campaign because of kernel level anti-cheat + internet connection. Even if Wine/Proton would allow you to start the game.
My pirate hat says otherwise
True. According to protondb, it is not possible to even start the game.
What a shame. But to be expected…
Until the support stops and you have an unplayable game in your library.
Bad but
Also
Stupid
this means it will be lost to time once they turn the server off
You wouldn’t. You’d buy Titanfall 2 for a whopping £2.49, and play a great (if short) single player campaign and then delete it.
If only for Effect and Cause, which is right up there with the best levels in any game.
If you still play CoD nowadays then you are actively supporting the problem.
From time to time I’ll still look at their steam page during sales, because I’d like to play a blockbuster single player FPS where I can mindlessly mow down bad guys, with good story and production value.
But the price point and reviews always turn me off… Do you have a good alternative to recommend?
If you want a CoD game, pretty much any CoD up through Black Ops 2 is still decent, but only if Activision actually let’s the game go “on sale”. Halo games have a fantastic story (up until 5 at least) and the Master Chief Collection is usually on sale for $10.
Short answer: you wouldn’t buy this game, given your valid criticisms.
This type of extortionate pricing policy speaks to the general user base being nobs, die hard try hards and probably a toxic gaming environment. Having a barrier to entry in any activity prevents total idiots from entering. Consoles have made it easier for people who don’t understand how to operate a PC to play games but that necessarily means those games will be replete with obnoxious people. The advent of smartphones has done that for the internet.
I feel like they could have called CoD Points something other than CP. 🤣
There are lots of valid abbreviations that CP uses other than child porn.
And it will never not be funny
I can see somebody inquiring about the amount someone has, and if they would be willing to share any. Boom. On a list.
Why would anybody support genocidal imperial propaganda in their home?
I made that mistake years ago with COD. Never again.
Thats the neat part, just dont.
You are missing the most important issue. It only runs on Windows!
To be fair that icon doesn’t mean much of anything cuz you can just force compatibility in Linux and use proton, you just gotta manually do that in properties.
This is probably windows only because of kernel level anticheat though so it probably still holds up.
What computers and airconditioners have in common is that they become useless when you open windows.
I suppose we just have to hope the air conditioner doesn’t suddenly hit us with a BSOD!
Or AI integration and ads
I’m pretty sure they do already have AI integration on the latest models…
Wtf with what reason xD The whole AI integration into basic things supposed to do basic things is stupidness of a dystopian degree. A bed with AI? It’s just a mattress. Why, just why. An AC just needs to cool to a certain temp. Why does it need AI, to get a relationship with it? What’s next, tables with AI?
I haven‘t encountered a Steam game that doesn‘t run on Linux so far. They very likely exist but anti cheat, third party account requirements, or an online connection while playing don‘t have anything to do with it as far as my games go. Same goes for GOG, Amazon Games and Epic Games on Heroic launcher. It just works as far as I can tell.
You are lucky then. If you play lots of multiplayer games you are bound to encounter one that doesn’t work.
Most modern Call of Duty and Battlefield games do not work for example.
According to areweanticheatyet.com only 40% of Games with Anti cheat work on Linux…
It would never occur to me to install CoD or Battlefield in the year 2025. So yeah, Guess I am lucky for having standards. Hopefully more people will realize there are other fantastic multiplayer games out there that run on a Steamdeck for example.
Nearly all games with a online pvp mode run on windows.
Not fully true. Yes a lot of games run on Windows… But a lot of them also run on Linux, in some cases even Native, in other cases using Wine/Proton from Valve. See: https://www.protondb.com/
A lot of online pvp games do work under Linux as well. But then again… AAA games are the most problematic… because they just stuck, and get ignored by the devs/publishers. I’m looking at you EA!
Reviews are mixed: not a great start
More than not a great start: Only people who have bought the game are allowed to review it, so reviewers are already biased towards liking the game, because only somebody who thinks they would enjoy the game would spend money on it. It’s basically impossible to get a strong negative score by just being run of the mill awful. So “mixed” means that about 50% of people who though they would enjoy the game, didn’t, which is quite damning.
When I said this on Reddit I got downvoted to hell and called a hater lol
You don’t. You play single player games like me and get to experience cool stories instead of dopamine lacking rage inducing PvP games.
I got Necesse too! It was about 6 bucks. Can’t beat that price. Runs on a potato also.
I should play that again, probably start a new world/char because so much has changed since I got it almost 4 years ago.
It’s for people with more money than brains.
Hey some of us are poor and this statement still describes us
It’s why we’re poor
I wish overspending was why I was poor. At least I could fix that.
Bro the CoD ship sailed years ago. They just don’t innovate and release the same shit year after year. Buy something else. I’d recommend Factorio.
Quite the leap going from CoD to Factorio tho. 😅
I had an intermediary of Minecraft and really gravitated towards the automation, I then saw Factorio on YouTube and was like damn this looks sick. I’m a software developer so it tracks that I like to solve problems.
Recently downloaded Satisfactory though to give that a try.
I also believe I aged out of FPS games as I was pretty above average all my life but just don’t have the time nor inclination to keep grinding anymore to stay really good at them. All about solo games now and just vibin.
Only because I had to explain the differences recently and it’s top of mind:
Satisfactory - Main goal is efficient usage of limited amount of throughput. Resource nodes are static, and efficiency is the name of the game. My favorites usually end up a spaghetti mess of belts, everything being fed the correct amount of inputs and all outputs being accounted for.
Factorio - Main goal is THE FACTORY MUST GROW. Your factory need more input to run 100%? You could figure out how to optimize everything that comes before it, orrrr just slam more out. Resources are randomly generated, and while you can exhaust deposits, there’s always more on the horizon. Explore. Expand. Exterminate. ENLARGE FACTORY. Usually ends up in a beautiful mess of a factory with bots zipping around, and the power flickers every now and then when the biters think they are more powerful that explosives/concentrated beams of light.
I really enjoyed The Dyson Sphere Program
