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♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ YOU ACTIVISION AT IT AGAIN WITH THE C&D’ING MW2 WAS MY CHILDHOOD AND H2M WAS GOING TO BRING THAT BACK UNTIL YOU RUINED IT I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF REFUND TIME

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FOR SUPER EARTH!!!

On the 12th day of launch week, PAYDAY gave to me:

12 HOURS OF DOWNTIME
11 MINUTES OF MATCHMAKING
10 BATTLE PASSES
9 POINTLESS SKILLS
8 HEISTS TO PLAY
7 TWEETS DAILY
6 MISSING FEATURES
5 WALLETS ROBBED
4 LOGIN REQUIREMENTS
3 BRAINLESS ROBBERS
2 XP RECIEVED
AND THIS BROKE D*CK PIECE OF SH*T GAME

THERE’S SO MUCH PORN!

I am a 52 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my daughter, who is 16 now. My daughter got this game from her uncle, so she installed it on her computer and she started playing. By the end of the week she had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my daughter, as she is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So i decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I could maybe play alongside her. I loaded into the game and joined my lobby, but I was stuck on what you where supposed to do. I asked my daughter for help so she hosted a game for me. We played a lot together, I loved it as it was the best time I had spent with my daughter since my wife had died. Thanks to this game this brought me and my daughter closer again and now we actually spend time together outside the house together as well. This game reminded me that there's fun to be had in everything, and it has brought both me and my daughter many happy memories.

Thank you Doki Doki Literature Club.

After 400hrs on PC, and even more on console, Activision decided to permanently ban my account for "unauthorized software and manipulation of game data", not stating specifically what happened so I will go ahead and share two reasons why this happened and why this company is more out of touch than ever.

For reason one: During the MWIII cycle, I installed a third-party software for extracting in-game 3D character models to Blender. I'm a 3D artist and ever since Activision rolled out their anti-cheat Ricochet, gathering models from the game has been extremely complicated since. They'll pretty much ban you for trying to gather materials for your renders. That is just unfair.

For reason two: I paid $5 for a service that grants you any locked operator of your choice, whether if it's a battle-pass exclusive or store exclusive. A very problematic issue that is sadly normalized in games like Fortnite, modern Call of Duty is weaponizing the FOMO factor. If there's a specific character you like who is (likely licensed) that's locked behind a battle pass and you show up with no wallet at the right time, then the devs will put in on you for missing on that character. Because of the FOMO factor, I cannot get my favorite character in games for example: Fortnite, I cannot get Optimus Prime, Doomguy, Din Djarin, T-60, Doctor Doom, General Grevious, the list will go on forever. Thanks to the FOMO factor, for Call of Duty, I decided to use an unlock tool to acquire Rick Grimes, a character that was locked behind the Season 2 battle pass for MWIII, which of course I missed out on, and they banned me for that.

Should I have done it? No. it's against Activision's Terms of Service but guess what; When a game locks content behind paywalls, time gates, and fear of missing out, it pushes players into making bad decisions. I wasn’t hacking the game to ruin anyone’s experience. I wasn’t hacking in multiplayer or Warzone. I was hacking the system that was already hacking my joy. I just wanted a character I missed, in a game I’ve spent dozens of hours and dollars on.

Aside from my personal experience, it's time to focus on the game's aspects. Call of Duty is what I consider a seasonal trap, wrapped in nostalgia and monetized by addiction. Every year, they promise they’ve changed. But if you play long enough, you’ll realize: it's all the same. You're paying $70 for a game that's supposed to be set in the 90s with a terrible functioning HQ that costs probably a third of your storage, alongside a mediocre campaign, below than average multiplayer with extreme skill-based matchmaking through the roof including monitored voice chats where you cannot even say the things your operator says, and of course the boring, unoriginal, soulless zombies experience, and a battle royale featuring lack of optimization, broken loadouts, terrible audio mixing, and of course the pro-longed cheating epidemic. Every. Single. Yearly. Release. Did I mention the overpriced immersion-breaking bundles which are confirmed to be AI-generated content. Summarizing this up, Activision are absolute money-hungry, unethical working conditions, bottom-line scumbags of the earth. Alongside, this company has a track record of shutting down beloved fan-made projects like H2M, SM2, X Labs, and possibly Plutonium one day, all because they’re terrified those passion-driven creations made by real humans might affect the sales of their current and future games. All because they’re sitting on $3.61 billion in debt, desperately pushing overpriced titles and artificially made overpriced cosmetics to claw their way out. So guess what, I’m not holding their hand through their self-inflicted downfall. With Black Ops 7 recently announced and around the corner, I totally relate to the mass amount of criticism. I won't be shocked when pre-orders begin and the standard game turns out to be $80 I won't be shocked anymore. If that's the case then just go and get yourself a nice gourmet meal instead of another bite of Activision’s half-microwaved leftovers.

Spent years playing this franchise, made one mistake trying to access content locked behind manipulative systems, and got banned. Call of Duty is no longer a game, it’s a yearly subscription to disappointment, thrived off of FOMO, monetization, lack of accountability, polished with microtransactions and held together by nostalgia. Don’t fall for it, even when it’s on sale, Activision will always ask for more money, time, sanity, maybe your dignity too.

This happened to my buddy Eric

Probably the most relevant idle game, though good game for grinders out there

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