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'Let us disable that garbage': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players hate the new skins so much that some are asking to pay for them to be removed (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

The crazy part isn't that people want to be able to disable that. The crazy part is that they want to pay to disable them...

No you guys, that should just be an option, no questions asked. Included in the options menu for... Well, whatever the asking price of the base game is. Also known as included in the base game.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Today’s consumers for ya.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The word consumer is so demeaning... But yes.

Humans are actually the only real producers in the world if you think about it. Everything around you is built by other humans.

We rarely think about that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

The word consumer is so demeaning...

I doubt they were trying to be complimentary.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

I really dislike being reductive so take what I say with a grain of salt:

I am not surprised that the people who regularly buy the COD series with all of it's monetary practices for the past decade are asking to buy a feature. They'd be more shocked if you could features/updates/qol without buying it. Habituation, de-sensitisation, whatever - they're the whales that fuel the decline in AAA games.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

People are offering to pay for it because they understand that providing that feature would potentially cause lost revenue for Call of Duty, since (theoretically) players are buying skins so other players can see them.

I imagine there are a lot of potential solutions (I can think of a few at least) but Activision probably think the lowest risk is to do nothing.