The skin situation in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has reached some kind of boiling point, with players fed up with the high price Activision is asking, as well as the way microtransactions are being handled. The Squid Game event pass itself contains a paid premium track, a money-making endeavour that is proving controversial.
The Squid Game premium bundle (above) costs 2800 CP, or around $24 (thanks, IGN). It includes three operator skins and various other adornments, but the operators themselves are restricted to the Crimson One team, meaning only one side in a match can actually wear the darn things.
Further, and paradoxically, nothing is likely to change because plenty of people are using the premium Squid Game skins, as well as one free to all players. This, in turn, has led to readability complaints, with green jumpsuit-wearing combatants on both sides.
Is this just the state of COD and similar titles at this point? Can anything even be done when enough people spend money on this stuff? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source reddit.com, via ign.com]
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I'm glad I stopped buying COD after MW2022. COD really did peak at MW2019
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is pretty much all in one now. it’s fortnite’s fault. fortnite brought battle passes, seasons, and really made the skin craze take off
@nomither6 I blame it on horse armor.
It's way too late to be complaining at this point.
The restriction of being able to use the red skins on one team and that's it is really strange, especially since the free skins can be used by both sides.
Just play it on Roblox and Fortnite.
More fun
They do it because they know people will pay for it.
There is no going back to the COD of old. Sadly this is the new norm.
@Nepp67 Wauw: how old are you? MW19 was the start of the downfall of the CoD franchise. The start of full SBMM/EOMM, way too expensive skins/battlepasses and gameplay catered for noobs. If you follow the CoD scene then this news is just the tip of the iceberg. Activision is the most scummiest and worst company ever.
@DDDD MW19 was when it got really good that it started to beat Battlefield, tf are you talking about? Lol Cod was considered a complete joke after Bo2.
I stopped playing them after the MW2019 reboot on PS4 i loved that campaign. The Battlepass was a chore to complete after a while especially if you do several of them. I guess Micro$oft isnt the saviour ipeople make it out to be.
@Nepp67 I've not bought a CoD game since the original Black Ops.
@Nepp67 tf you are talking about? CoD cannot be compared to BF. 2 different games. And yes after BO2 is where things went the wrong direction.
@Reform Before the MW reboot I stopped buying COD when I bought Ghosts. Only ones I bought after that was MW2019 and MW2022.
@DDDD Bro COD and BF are always getting compared lol. Not to mention during the time when people were tired of COD and their crap futuristic titles they set their eyes on BF1 as it was breath of fresh air.
Doesn't this happen in every COD game these days? Just stop buying them. It's not hard.
This is a complete non-issue for me. I have played easily 20 hours since this bundle has come out and I haven't seen any of these skins used, just the black and green squid games skins. All the squid games skins fit the game in my opinion, too. I don't like the green dragon or the angel-winged suited armor guy. Hell even cartel Santa is more annoying than these. They haven't paywalled anything but cosmetics and probably half the people in my matches have bought a $20+ bundle , so they're taking in tons of money
People complain about skin prices. People still buy them. The world keeps on turning.
Same story every few weeks.
Buy it, don't buy it, it's up to you. You bought and paid for the game you got at release, that was a choice. You now have a choice if you want to pay for anything new they added after release like new skins.
This isn't that hard.
@Flaming_Kaiser wait you though microsoft would get rid of battlepasses? and just give people all this extra content for free each month?
@Toot1st Less outrageous pricing it only got worse the disc is worth less then beer coaster now. And now BP in between BP yeah ill pass.
Don’t want it? Don’t buy it! It’s that simple! I’ve never bought anything in a video game that I didn’t want to pay for. 🤷🏾♂️
@Nepp67 MW2019 was so much fun. Is there still servers with players on?
@Perturbator fortnite had way bigger impact
@Boucho11 There are although not a whole lot of players at least on Steam anyways
The bitter irony of a series built on critiquing capitalism’s excesses being reduced to a tool for corporate gain is almost laughable. Instead of a coherent, self-contained story, we’re left with an unfinished tale, a dangling thread that screams “watch the next installment” rather than providing any real closure.
Squid Game has lost its edge, trading its incisive social commentary for the empty spectacle of a franchise being milked for all it’s worth.
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