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Replicant said:

Ugh, I wish console makers would stop this practice of buying timed exclusive games and DLC from third parties.

And why on earth do publishers/developers think that they can do this to a part of their customer base and still expect them to support their games?

Because they always do. 

Somebody put up the infamous boycott MW2 image; yall know which one I'm talking about.



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NathanSSSS said:
Great for PS players, I don't care any shit about COD tho

How is this great for PS players when it means anyone on PS4 who wanted to play this mode or all the modes with their friends on PC/XB1 can't even do that now since it's not even gonna be available for them on those systems? It affects and downgrades the game all across the board on everything, literally nobody benefits from this. They made a huge deal about cross-play and everything being on time equally but right from the start there's already going to be something walled off between which system you have. It ruins it completely. 

Hell, I was already planning on buying it for PS4  before this news so it's not like I would be missing out on the game mode, but this is absolutely a scummy decision on Activision and Sony's part. 

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twintail said:

Because gaming going forward is all about the eco-system. Considering Sony, as a whole, is making a large chunk of money from digital sales from the PS division, the more ppl they have committing to the eco-system now is beneficial for the future. This is why the PS5 also supports PS4 content: how likely is someone to jump over to a competing brand when they already have money invested digitally into PSN?

 

This doesn't even make sense. What makes you think that buying an exclusive or timed exclusive is resulting in extra money to polish up a game? What makes you think this content is automatically cut from other platforms? Like, is there hard proof of this?

At the end of the day, a company is either getting a) an exclusive you will never play on another platform, b) a timed exclusive that you can eventually play, or c) timed content without stopping others from playing the core game day 1.

I personally don't see the issue with timed content, but a whole year for a yearly IP is truly something else... I wonder what metrics Activision have at their perusal that they have no real issue with this. Surely money alone can't be the answer considering how much they rake in with game sales and microtransactions to begin with.  

Having a large ecosystem doesn't mean everything is going to be smooth sailing going forward. Look at the drop from ps2 to ps3, 360 to Xbox One, Wii to WiiU. Gamers don't commit to a system because of shitty anti-consumer practices like this. CoD is a yearly release, many CoD players are going to jump ship to the next one after it releases. How likely is someone going to jump ship to another brand? Lets ask the ps2 users who went to 360, and then 360 users to ps4. Gamers aren't as committed to a single brand as much as you think. Especially casual ones, which is the majority of the userbase for all systems.

When a game is exclusive to one platform, it much easier to spend time polishing the game and optimizing to said platform. 

Considering this was a deal between publishers, Infinity Ward likely had the game mostly complete and knew what content was in the final game. I highly doubt Sony said, "Yeah we want this game mode to be exclusive" before they saw what the game mode was. Thus making it cut content. 

I think you underestimate how greedy Activision is. Have you not seen the microtransactions in the last several CoD games? 



At this point every one involved is stuck. There's just simply no going back.
If Sony doesn't do it, Activision will just go do the same deal with Microsoft.
This needed to be spoken against last gen when MS made this practice of timed exclusive content a standard.
It didn't happen then though, on the contrary Xbox fans were cheering MS on and bragging about the timed exclusive map packs and other trinkets.
Sony was forced into doing it to compete, and now we have this market where publishers can lock content on certain platforms and get money from the competitor for it and it's not just going to vanish. As things stand it's better that the deal be with Sony than with MS as most people play on PS4 anyway.



Sarkar said:
At this point every one involved is stuck. There's just simply no going back.
If Sony doesn't do it, Activision will just go do the same deal with Microsoft.
This needed to be spoken against last gen when MS made this practice of timed exclusive content a standard.
It didn't happen then though, on the contrary Xbox fans were cheering MS on and bragging about the timed exclusive map packs and other trinkets.
Sony was forced into doing it to compete, and now we have this market where publishers can lock content on certain platforms and get money from the competitor for it and it's not just going to vanish. As things stand it's better that the deal be with Sony than with MS as most people play on PS4 anyway.

So it's Microsoft's fault even if Sony does it? That is some strange logic there.

I have a better idea.. Ridicule everyone who does it.



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Ah, the good old “Microsoft created this problem!” although exclusive deals were a thing well before they even entered the console market. Reminds me of people bitching about Rise of the Tomb Raider because “it’s known as a PlayStation franchise!!” yet they leave out the part where it’s known as a PS franchise because Sony paid to make it a PS franchise lol



Replicant said:

And why on earth do publishers/developers think that they can do this to a part of their customer base and still expect them to support their games?

Because consumers seem not to change their behavior.  People make noise on forums like this one, but that's just not enough people to be a problem (apparently).



Dulfite said:
DonFerrari said:

Don't think either Sony or MS have paid to CoD to not be on Switch.

Or are you complaining that Nintendo doesn't do it?

I was being sarcastic

On my end I wouldn't lose a second of sleep if MS paid 1 Billion to have this game forever exclusive to Xbox.



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Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

You know what the biggest lie of all int his thread is, the whole "It's timed, thus it'll give far more money, which will go to improving the game".

No, no it fucking doesn't. Stop perpetuating that obviously disgusting shitty lie. It doesn't "improve the game",, because Acti has billions of dollars under their belt. They've got far more money to use to improve all the games they help create/publish. Stop trying to justify timed exclusivity under the scummiest bullshit lie of the century with "it'll help improve the game". Seriously fuck away with that bullshit right now.



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Should have been Epic Game Store exclusive on PC though.