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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Are zoomers lining up around the block to play the Black Ops 1 campaign? Just seems absurd after over a decade to not drop the price to a reasonable level.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, I don't believe that's the reason.

The reason is most likely because they want people to always but the newest game because they don't want to split up their player base.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

In fact, it's actually better to pirate them and use Plutonium for Multiplayer. This is due to the fact that many pre-Infinite Warfare Call of Duty titles have unpatched RCE vulnerabilities that Activision never bothered to fix, but have been in Plutonium.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20817

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2190/Activision.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jesus, thank you for the heads up. That's scary.