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 :)

  • kr0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago
    1. This game was not a good COD.
    2. This game was released in 2021, so it’s like if you buy now FIFA 2021 or NBA 2021, nobody is playing it.
    3. The 175€ DLC is just cosmetics. Cammos for the weapons, skins operators and so on. Not needed.
    4. 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.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • cron@feddit.orgEnglish
    199·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      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?

      • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        8 days ago

        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.

    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zipEnglish
      26·
      9 days ago

      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.

            • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              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?

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      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.

      • Klajan@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        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…

        • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          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.

      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
        10·
        9 days ago

        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!

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    26·
    8 days ago

    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.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        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.

        • brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          9·
          8 days ago

          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.

  • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    8 days ago

    You don’t. You play single player games like me and get to experience cool stories instead of dopamine lacking rage inducing PvP games.

  • mcforest@feddit.orgEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    Maybe because there are still people who are not tired of Call of Duty, liked the predecessor and are still looking forward for a sequel and play it with their friends?

    Oh wait, this isn’t even the newest CoD? Probably they just forgot to update the prices. Probably forgot it even exists because there is a new one.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      10·
      9 days ago

      They dont want people buying the old games, even their 15 year old ones are still full price on purpose. They want you in the latest game each year, exposed to all the predatory extra-transactions, then they want you to do that again the next year and the next and the next… the games are not priced like that because they “forgot”, it’s a business strategy.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    9 days ago

    This kind of thing is why I dont get excited for steam sales now. Oh, 50% off Recent AAA Game? Haha, yeah, half off the base price, but the entire game is DLC now and each of those is still full price, and there’s a dozen of them.

    • warm@kbin.earth
      8·
      9 days ago

      AAA is just cash grab, they haven’t been good or innovative games for a long, long time now. They are very good at marketing to the masses though and they have the pricing tiers laid out perfectly to extract as much money from people as they can.

      They start off with their massive price tag like $70-80, plus the deluxe editions for $100-120 for any suckers who want a fucking extra skin. Then after a couple months when sales slow down, they put it on sale for like 20% off, then a couple months more, its like 40% off and so on. DLC has kind of fallen off, as they get people stuck in the battle pass and cosmetic buying loop instead (people are crazy).

      If a AAA game looks interesting to you at all, you are literally best just waiting a few months or more, it’s a win-win, you either buy it it’s actual value or you get the reviews that its a disgusting broken mess or was completely over-hyped (it’s these last two 99% of the time).

      Steam sales are for getting them older games a bit cheaper, good indie games are worth their price tag multiple times over honestly so unless you are tight on money, I’d support the developer regardless of sales.

  • Saledovil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      When I said this on Reddit I got downvoted to hell and called a hater lol