CoD: Advanced Warfare: Same Old Shit

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Zombies Sold Separately As DLC

Fans were excited when last week a leaked trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare seemed to show that a Zombies mode would be making it into the game. As Advanced Warfare is from Sledgehammer, Activision’s newest developer recruit, it was unknown if Zombies, a Treyarch tradition, would appear as a mode in the new game.

Now, we have confirmation that zombies are indeed coming to Advanced Warfare, but how they’re coming might upset fans.

Announced by a GameStop press release, access to an upcoming Zombies mode is granted through the purchase of the game’s mammoth $50 DLC Season Pass, which includes five maps from the get-go, all maps after that, and now apparently, Zombies.

Though Call of Duty is known for its traditional deathmatch-style multiplayer and summer blockbuster-esque story campaigns, there is a huge contingent of fans who adore Zombies, and some who play it almost exclusively, as it’s a very different type of game than any of the other modes with its own kind of strategy and challenges.

Needless to say, many Zombies fans are incredibly displeased that the mode is now being cordoned off into DLC, and being advertised as part of a ludicrous $50 season pass to boot.

That season pass price alone should raise more than a few eyebrows, as we’re now approaching a point of no return where it will literally cost double to get a game with a promise of all its extra content at launch. That might be acceptable if it were only map packs, but now that entire gameplay modes like Zombies are being cut from the main game and converted into DLC, that’s more than a little bold.


Granted, Activision can essentially do whatever it wants with Call of Duty, given the fact that any new installment is going to be one of the top selling games of the year. But because they know they have that freedom, they’re going to keep constantly pushing the bounds of what’s acceptable to charge extra for, and now Zombies is on the chopping block.

We still know little about Activision/Sledgehammer’s plans for Zombies. Maybe it was never supposed to be a another pillar of the game alongside story, Exo Survival co-op and multiplayer, and they just added it in even though it wasn’t a Treyarch production because they know people like it. And I assume the Zombies DLC isn’t only going to be available through purchase of a season pass, as I have to imagine it will be sold separately when the time comes. But if these are the only points of consolation, it’s still rather maddening from the consumer’s perspective.

Activision must be confident enough in their playerbase at this point to know that there’s a market for something as seemingly absurd as a $50 season pass, or else it wouldn’t exist. It does seem like a crazy amount of maps will likely end up being included in that total, not to mention Zombies now, but still, $110 up front for all of a single game’s content is pushing it for any franchise. That’s a third of the price of an entire Xbox One if you buy it on sale right now.

Again, the question with DLC is always “where does it end?” With Call of Duty, the annual money pile it creates allows Activision to experiment more than most other series would dare. The only way to stop this kind of thing is to reject it, and though would I would say $50 season passes are nearing the end of the line, it’s hard to tell in the industry these days.

We’ll have more information about Zombies as it gets closer to release, and Advanced Warfare officially comes out tomorrow, though select retailers (including the digital store) are selling copies today.
 
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HERESY

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I've been telling you fools for years that MP is ruining gaming and driving the prices up. What else do you need to see?

Campaign should be $30-45. Anything else should be 20-35 max which brings us back to the $65 cost of a title. And it's not like these people are losing money. They are recycling assets and already have a fanbase so they are clearing close to a billion or half of that every time one of these COD games is released. And it only took 100 million to make and most of that was marketing to FOOLS.

And want to know what makes it worse? The guy who helped make the recent titles said some disturbing shit about brainwashing people.

“When we have a new product that has elements that we’re not sure how people will respond to, what do we do as a corporation?” he asked. “We market it, and we market it as much as we can—so that whether people like it or not, we do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.”
That's right from the horses mouth and here is the link on Forbes just in case you want it.

Call Of Duty Director Encourages The Government To 'Brainwash' People - Forbes

This muthafucka is doing two things: 1. He is ADMITTING that they brainwash people to buy this shit. 2. He is OPENLY endorsing Hegelian Dialectic.
 

Rasan

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nah man call it what it really is - a company trying to squeeze out every last dollar from the consumers. A LOT of people love the zombie mode, the internetz is having a shit storm over it. Now it's sold separately just like additional maps and who knows what else. So you gotta to ask yourself where does it end? They can get away with it because COD is always one of if not the top selling game every year no matter what. So they are being greedy. I'm not supporting this garbage because it's only going to get worse.
little kids love zombie mode too. thats all they play.
 

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's Zombies Sold Separately As DLC

Fans were excited when last week a leaked trailer for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare seemed to show that a Zombies mode would be making it into the game. As Advanced Warfare is from Sledgehammer, Activision’s newest developer recruit, it was unknown if Zombies, a Treyarch tradition, would appear as a mode in the new game.

Now, we have confirmation that zombies are indeed coming to Advanced Warfare, but how they’re coming might upset fans.

Announced by a GameStop press release, access to an upcoming Zombies mode is granted through the purchase of the game’s mammoth $50 DLC Season Pass, which includes five maps from the get-go, all maps after that, and now apparently, Zombies.

Though Call of Duty is known for its traditional deathmatch-style multiplayer and summer blockbuster-esque story campaigns, there is a huge contingent of fans who adore Zombies, and some who play it almost exclusively, as it’s a very different type of game than any of the other modes with its own kind of strategy and challenges.

Needless to say, many Zombies fans are incredibly displeased that the mode is now being cordoned off into DLC, and being advertised as part of a ludicrous $50 season pass to boot.

That season pass price alone should raise more than a few eyebrows, as we’re now approaching a point of no return where it will literally cost double to get a game with a promise of all its extra content at launch. That might be acceptable if it were only map packs, but now that entire gameplay modes like Zombies are being cut from the main game and converted into DLC, that’s more than a little bold.


Granted, Activision can essentially do whatever it wants with Call of Duty, given the fact that any new installment is going to be one of the top selling games of the year. But because they know they have that freedom, they’re going to keep constantly pushing the bounds of what’s acceptable to charge extra for, and now Zombies is on the chopping block.

We still know little about Activision/Sledgehammer’s plans for Zombies. Maybe it was never supposed to be a another pillar of the game alongside story, Exo Survival co-op and multiplayer, and they just added it in even though it wasn’t a Treyarch production because they know people like it. And I assume the Zombies DLC isn’t only going to be available through purchase of a season pass, as I have to imagine it will be sold separately when the time comes. But if these are the only points of consolation, it’s still rather maddening from the consumer’s perspective.

Activision must be confident enough in their playerbase at this point to know that there’s a market for something as seemingly absurd as a $50 season pass, or else it wouldn’t exist. It does seem like a crazy amount of maps will likely end up being included in that total, not to mention Zombies now, but still, $110 up front for all of a single game’s content is pushing it for any franchise. That’s a third of the price of an entire Xbox One if you buy it on sale right now.

Again, the question with DLC is always “where does it end?” With Call of Duty, the annual money pile it creates allows Activision to experiment more than most other series would dare. The only way to stop this kind of thing is to reject it, and though would I would say $50 season passes are nearing the end of the line, it’s hard to tell in the industry these days.

We’ll have more information about Zombies as it gets closer to release, and Advanced Warfare officially comes out tomorrow, though select retailers (including the digital store) are selling copies today.
That was old info. They updated it to confirm that Zombies is sold separate from Season Pass. At least you won't have to buy season pass to get zombies....But it's still bullshit and I doubt I will be buying this game.

The pass isnt required
Yeah I never said it was...I said if you were wanting to get everything
 
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i really fucking hate hardcore on this gameand the flying somehow people be getting some bullshit kills and it takes more then 3 rounds to kill somebody in hardcore?
 
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Just started playing a couple days ago, only at rank 12. Game is pretty dope, I like the campaign also. I fucking suck though, my K/D ratio is only like .54 lol usually average like 12 kills to 20 deaths or some shit in Free For All matches.


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