Honestly? Gamers deserve all the shit they get, I’m all for consumer rights but I have no sympathy for the people that buys these games and then later complains about it. You’re not part of the problem, you are the problem.
I blame it on “content creators” on YouTube. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy watching someone play and complain about a bad game, but there are so many tubers that use the same format, or even the same titles just reworked a little bit.
A lot of this could be blamed on The Algorithm, but after a certain point you have to start blaming the creators themselves for sticking with the format.
I don’t. YouTubers just cover stuff people are interested in, they rarely create that interest.
It turns out people like whatever it is COD offers, so YouTubers make videos either about the good or bad things in the latest COD, and they attract the audiences that are looking for it. And that is where “The Algorithm” comes into play, if more people want to know what’s bad about a popular game, those videos will get more popular and thus recommended more often.
The people to blame aren’t the YouTubers, but the people who watch those videos.
I sometimes legitimately forget that people are watching the shit that’s on YouTube.
But then again like half of us adults can’t read at a 6th grade level, so I guess video appeals.
McDonald’s outsells the google 5-star rated gourmet burger place down the street from me, doesn’t mean I’m gonna eat it.
Yeah but in your example both have wildly different prices while COD and Zelda cost the same
yeah, believe it or not, the big mac set costs more
Nor should you but McDonalds can be good depending on the location.
This is a wad of shit marketed as a Tootsie-roll and people going “What? It’s just chocolate.”
McDonald’s is incredibly consistent in how they prepare food location to location. It turns out I just don’t like their food and much prefer the fancier place down the street.
Well, working in fast food, not all locations are the same. Some people care to clean the stoves daily. Some wait and do it weekly. Some managers change the fry oil regularly, some don’t. You can taste the difference.
I guess I don’t go to fast food often enough to notice. I don’t eat out very often (like once/month?), and when I do, it’s at a better chain (e.g. Five Guys) or a non-chain restaurant (I prefer the local places).
Yeah you hear some horror stories of different locations sometimes. Like floors being so filthy a maintenance worker had to scrape a spot for him to kneel down and the manager got upset, claiming he now had to clean the floors because of it. Places are run with a skeleton crew sometimes and cleaning is the first thing that gets skipped over.
Ew. Now I’m extra glad I rarely go to fast food.
They could of just mailed every one a turd instead of a game. People warned their friends and every one online, but they still bought it. So now Activision knows they can just put out shit, but the consumer will buy shit with that call of duty brand lable slapped on it.
Call of Doodoo: Modern Consumerism III
*Could have
can just put out shit
I honestly am sure Activision doesn’t see it that way. This further cements that it’s a golden goose they need to protect. This level of a captive audience is incredibly valuable and I’d bet heads will roll for endangering it.
Yup. They can probably get away with it once, but they’ll lose their audience if it becomes a pattern.
COD is on like 5 consoles and TOTK is on one? It’s not a surprise?
Fucking Kotaku, garbage all around.
It’s the second best selling game of 2023 and it came out last month, though - that’s notable, particularly given the shitty reviews. Plenty of other games are also available on just as many consoles and storefronts. Zelda 20 was presumably mentioned because of name recognition and because it was previously second and is now third.
Not sure why anyone cares.
The people who care about quality will play real games, and the people who love the name brand will happily rebuy the same game again.
Either you love cod, or it doesnt exist. Its not like its a real franchise anymore, better shooters have met or surpassed it in spades. Anything you needed from this game you will get elsewhere.
At this point they might as well just call It COD:Forever Warfare, make it a subscribtion service and sign people up for life, because people will just buy every COD.
I asked a coworker how they felt about the newest Call of Duty and how it’s the lowest rated out of all of them.
They said they didn’t notice.
At some point you just have to concede a fool and his money are easily parted.
Says everything you need to know about cods playerbase lmao
I expect them to take 1+ year to produce a piece of shot game, not 6 mo. I didn’t buy it out of principal (aka my wife didn’t buy it, she carries the stats)
Alright pack it up. Give the squids a chance at this shit we’re done.
