Call of Duty Modern Warfare Rakes in $600 million on Opening Weekend

[Deleted member 67555]

Activision doesn't like marking down their games. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Remastered released at $40 three years ago and it's still $40. From my own experience I wanted Black Ops 1 just to try a Black Ops game. I routinely checked sales on Steam and it took 5 years after release to get it for $20. It's $19.60 on sale right now if anyone is interested.

CoD WWII was in last months Humble monthly... That game plays so much on MP..MW's mp is garbage compared to WWII

 

[RoutedScripter]

Seems like it's better than I expected, techincally, but in practice the storyline is apparently "russophobic" and gamers are hammering it on scores.

Against Call of Duty's Russophobia, gamers are the voice of reason

'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' makes a weak attempt at rewriting American military history and placing responsibility for a real-world war crime on Russia, and gamers have made it clear that they're sick of the propaganda.

www.rt.com

In its most egregious attempt at washing American militants' hands, the game features a 'Highway of Death' scene, where Russian forces are blamed for an attack on fleeing invaders, but the Highway of Death is not a work of fiction—it happened in 1991, and it was American forces who attacked fleeing Iraqi personnel.

Spoiler

Oh my gawd, the russian are so bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LghGcbSzA

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Russian troops deliver humanitarian aid in Syria

(14 Sep 2017) Russian Defence Ministry officials took an Associated Press crew on an arranged trip to Homs in Syria on Wednesday to show them the situation i...

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Humanitarian aid to Syrian people from Russia

Babiri-Foukan, Aleppo province. 300 food sets and 1500 bread tortillas were given to the locals.

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Syria: Liberated Aleppo residents receive aid from Russian Reconciliation Centre

Russian Centre for Reconciliation of opposing sides in Syria delivered five tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents in the recently liberated Aleppo district...

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Given the fact that ActivisionBlizzard just profited 600m and get to freely express their views, I think it should be fair that I take this opportunity to post a bit more than a few videos of an opposing viewpoint, without making any profit whatsoever myself.

 

[rtwjunkie]

Seems like it's better than I expected, techincally, but in practice the storyline is apparently "russophobic" and gamers are hammering it on scores.

Against Call of Duty's Russophobia, gamers are the voice of reason

'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' makes a weak attempt at rewriting American military history and placing responsibility for a real-world war crime on Russia, and gamers have made it clear that they're sick of the propaganda.

www.rt.com

Spoiler

Oh my gawd, the russian are so bad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LghGcbSzA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMc5fVQRkBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHhmjUYC5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuVj9MzL0GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKj1oWKURbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTi9isqQHI8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27WL4DD-Daw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syDnfu3tzbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSnYUJ9Wyw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTlMpBJmKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47qOTisP0iU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hulnIn1gYPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C-mLA7uPjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBhNYAmMiOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vGHbnPFUWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5j9O87LQnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2nY8qE-6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDK37OAA_c

Given the fact that COD owners just profited 600m and get to freely express their views, I think it should be fair that I take this opportunity to post a bit more than a few videos of an opposing viewpoint, without making any profit whatsoever myself.

Very nice at the cherry-picking of Russian humanitarian acts. Nope, noRussian atrocities anywhere, ever.

 

[RoutedScripter]

Show them then? Attack on georgia? Never happend, total fakery, but they did respond by shooting back, which is what anyone's suppose to do if someone comes behind your back and attacks you unprovoked.

 

[Deleted member 67555]

Show them then? Attack on georgia? Never happend, total fakery, but they did respond by shooting back, which is what anyone's suppose to do if someone comes behind your back and attacks you unprovoked.

The game itself is based on an alternate reality earth but....
The atrocities they somewhat brought up was from Afghanistan during the Soviet (Russian) invasion in the 1980's.

A retrospective commentary for Niemen Reports criticized mainstream television for biased presentation of a "Ramboesque struggle of holy warriors against the evil empire."

And Russia isn't exactly a favorable country for the USA right now...
Our President may be ok with the Russian Govt but its people are not for either.
We're really not sure where we stand because Russia is the world's best Idiot whisperer.

 

[RoutedScripter]

Our President may be ok with the Russian Govt but its people are not for either.
We're really not sure where we stand because Russia is the world's best Idiot whisperer.

I would correct the people part.

There are millions of events happening on the planet at any given time, majority of the US mass media focuses on one thing almost 24/7, disproportionately covering one subject, it makes an illusion as if "everyone's talking about it" ... when this happens long enough, everyone then is so full of it that they all think it's the most important thing ever. Infact the media's only talking about it and the ones who fall for it will repeat it, most of it is just repeaters, usually the root source is AP or Reuters, most smaller medias simply get their scripts and briefings for the day at early morning, it's just like a bakery that get's its ingredients delivered in the morning and starts baking, just like a grocery store gets supplies in the morning, just as bakeries and sweet shops need to include ingredients which are the most manipulative and appealing but happen to also be toxic and not real foods, so does the media have to add their spices to make their news more attractive, what better way is to overexaggerate and twist things, or outright change the narrative that provides a more dramatic outcome, althought it has evolved to be ofcourse more dynamic as the old rotten media can't keep the act up with the competition from the internet and other independent sources, so they have to get bolder and bolder until it's clear that they basically move from a news source to an opinion source, depends on the media type and heavily depends on geolocation, some locations, particularly outside US they can still keep the act up, they have a certain rulebook which can be seen from space, I analyzed my national media over here, I know basically on top of my head which international story is going to be covered localy and which not, I keep guessing it right, something important happens in US congress, it will never get covered, something stupid get's said it's covered immediately, some russia accusation is the top news of the day, remains the top, and I know how these people operate, they see all the news because if it's an international news piece that's really favorable to their agenda they will post it in the most earliest hours of the day, otherwise if it's not so important they usually are a day or 2 late, the writers may write it, but they probably have a second layer of biased editors which prioritize what shows up on the site and when, the way articles get written, the tone of them, whenever there is something that benefits their narrative is has all the pictures all the text the article is really rich versus other articles, the TV side of things is like a kindergarden for 5 year olds, "today sun is shining, tommorow will rain, the european union will expand, russia attacked syrian refugees, old granma baked some sugary cookies, good night" it's incredibly perfected propaganda tool, the way it pacifies the victim, makes it think simpler, brain sabotage. When the story is favorable to the leftist views the TV presenter overexaggerates their emotional expressions, which is part of the propaganda, emotions are the biggest vector for information warfare.

In the big operation to liberate Aleppo, the media sensation was huge, the anti-russian media was in overdrive, as the Russian military field hospitals and kitchens were being setup for the fleeing civilians who have been imprisoned in their own city, and get shelled by terrorist (external mercenary) mortar fire from the center of the city, the anti-russian media were quick to report that the russian attacked Allepo civilians and that the refugees were defending against them, all according to this one guy who lives in london with a little office called "The Syrian Observatory", did he help transport or provide any humanitarian aid, nope.

https://www.rt.com/news/369219-medic-killed-russian-aleppo/

The alternate reality is just a way to get off the hook of having to answer for the accuracy, it can still be exploited for a real-world advantage, if it was "according to real events" they would get the eye of various historians and organizations, they would have been challenged, even legally, and boy corporations "love" the discovery process very much.

 

[danbert2000]

I started my COD career with the very first one, bought Call of Duty 2 day one with my Xbox 360, and played the ever loving crap out of COD4 and COD:MW2.

I can't bring myself to buy this game, even with the actually competent single player and lack of monetization (for now). I don't think I have it in me to "git gud" at the level that was the most fun in the past for online multiplayer. And now that I have a PC but still prefer couch gaming with a controller, I'm not sure if it would even be possible to play this competitively against M/K pros.

In the past few years, every time I get the itch to play an online shooter, I just end up playing Splatoon 2 again. I guess I'll just boot that back up tonight and let my good memories of COD stay rosy and in the past.

 

[Kursah]

This is an article about a video game ffs. Anything beyond that stops here. Enough with the drama folks, please find something more constructive to do with your time.

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

I tried playing through the game in REALISM mode.

I beat every single level EXCEPT THE LAST LEVEL.

It's virtually impossible with the amount of shit they throw at you.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Go on steam and look at older CoD titles. They are still above $30. And the first few are like $10-20

Yeah i think this is real dumb. I remember buying CoD1 in a bargain bucket for $7 - Best $7 i ever spent. I sunk half my eternal youth into that game. But then again those were simpler times and publishers/developers cared about quality

 

[Tartaros]

Except you forgot, it’s an Activision game. No publisher maintains artificially high prices for as long as Activision does. It’s literally years before reduction. Then this will go to $ 49.99, and only occasionally on a big sale will it drop to $39.99.

Unless Activision forgets about their own way they do business, this is exactly how it will go.

Got the previous cod for free in humble bundle a year 6-8 months of launch with some dlcs and it has gone on sale for 20$ several times on the blizzard launcher. So not anymore, at least the previous one.

 

[Prima.Vera]

It's $60, like every other AAA game released in the last like 10 years.

Remember, the World is not US only. In Europe and East Asia we also have shitty taxes that add at least 50% to the final price. So you do the math