KManX89 on 27 September 2019
| derpysquirtle64 said: This is really the worst business practice in the whole gaming industry I guess. Even moneyhatting third party exclusives timed or not doesn't feel as bad as something like this. It at least can help a bit to polish the game for one specific platform so the overall product quality can be higher compared to multiplatform release. But when platform holder pays to the publisher to cut something from already finished product on other platforms it is really inexcusable. I wouldn't surprise if the content of this mode is already exists in PC/Xbox One versions and will just be locked out until October 2020. |
To be fair, it was probably Activision who offered Sony the timed-exclusive Spec Ops Survival Mode, not the other way around. We all know Acti likes to milk every last dime they possibly can out of their games and they get even more money with exclusivity deals, timed or otherwise.
I mean, yeah, they could've said no, but what platform holder in their right mind wouldn't accept timed exclusive content handed to them on a silver platter?
No, I'm not defending this, I'm on PS4, and even I think it's bullshit. I said the same thing about the Back in Black Maps on BO3, locking them exclusively behind digital pre-orders for BO4 on PS4. I'm just saying it was probably Acti who who brokered this, not Sony.
