Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Developer Unhappy With Microtransactions
As you will know, at launch, Treyarch's most recent release -- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- wasn't that bad from a microtransactions perspective, but it got worse over time during the post-launch period. For example, who can forget the game selling basic red dot reticles for a dollar? And this type of invasive microtransaction implementation has been an issue for every new release in the series, which fans of shooter have been unhappy about. But, apparently, they aren't alone. The developers aren't happy either.
According to the report, which comes way of Kotaku, developers aren't just unhappy with Activision stuffing in monetization, but how little influence they have over monetization in their own game.
Again, this is just one of the many issues cited by developers in the report. There's also mention of extreme crunching to ship games, a disconnect between the publisher and the developer, and more.
And all of this comes as reports come in that Call of Duty: Black Ops is returning a year ahead of schedule in the form of Call of Duty: Black Ops 5 in 2020, which is, reportedly, coming back a year early after Sledgehammer Games' project was cancelled.
Of course, issues of crunching and publishers forcing different types of monetization onto games is nothing new and it's far from just a Treyarch/Activision problem. It's an industry problem.
Anyway, discontent, especially open discontent, is not a great work environment. And not great work environments tend to result in not so great games. In other words, hopefully this is remedied soon. That said, while I think we may see improvements made to crunch culture, the chances Activison and publishers are going to leave money on the table by pulling back on micortransactions and other post-release forms of monetization are slim.
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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/06/27/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-treyarch-activision-microtransactions/
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ArkaniPosted:
Every little thing is a microtransactions in that game, I feel like. I just hope that this year's cod is good and that Black Ops 5 in 2020, will be better than this poop we got, regarding gameplay and microtransaction side.
CTVPosted:
So they're gonna go on more crunch time and stick to the same strategy they always go for every other year..
ZemaPosted:
It's crazy to hear that even the dev's for BO4 are not happy with the micro transactions
TTGPosted:
The fact that they have push the game out makes no sense, the game still is incomplete. This is the reason they keep trying to add microtransactions to make as much money as they can, and they might as well be working in a sweatshop.
Professor_ChaosPosted:
Mario350 reads title of they are unhappy with microcrapactions they shouldnt have put it in the game, acticucks have nothing to do with the devs idea of a game but of course they wouldnt be too happy because they lost alot of money, but still the game should be free since it has microcrapactionsI love how you said you only read the title, it really shows how idiotic and lazy you are. Everything you said was completely incorrect, and you'd know that if you spent 1 minute reading the actual news post next time.
again the devs have a say in the matter its their own fault following through with it
Mario350Posted:
reads title of they are unhappy with microcrapactions they shouldnt have put it in the game, acticucks have nothing to do with the devs idea of a game but of course they wouldnt be too happy because they lost alot of money, but still the game should be free since it has microcrapactions
again the devs have a say in the matter its their own fault following through with it
again the devs have a say in the matter its their own fault following through with it
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