I'd like to say I'm surprised by this, but it just feels like yet another shameless practice by a AAA publisher. After what's already happened this year, something like this is just par for the course it seems.

Well it shouldn't be legal to sell the product before launch date, so technically the product does work if it's sold on the date it's legally meant to.

Don't read too much into it. It was done on purpose so those who got early copy's won't be able to play early, that's all.

Meh it is the same like buying it digitally and can't play till midnight I don't mind it that much.

Ignore release date. What about someone who has no internet? The game won't work for them ever.

Perhaps it is a good thing no COD came to Switch then.

I'm not trying to be a dick here, but is it really that hard for you to avoid spoilers? Especially for such a short period of time? It must be a case of us having browsing habits that diverge once we go somewhere other than VGC. I'm waaaay behind in my backlog, and literally none of the games within said backlog have been compromised by spoilers. Curious to see how this plays out, but the talk of lawsuits in this thread is a bit over the top. How about getting a refund? Oh, and fuck Actvivision.

Heh. Ya, that'll do it I suppose. I was only ever on Facebook, which I deactivated 2 years ago, but I can see how Twitter would add to the problem of potential spoilers.

Not just Twitter, it's everywhere. Even on Youtube, you can have giant spoilers in the thumbnail picture or title of video. You don't have to click it.

But also speaking of facebook as you brought it up. Facebook now has videos that start playing without you even clicking. Whether i'm trying to avoid spoilers or not, they can show up anywhere.

Yeah, I can understand their reasoning behind this, but it still comes off as them selling a game that doesn't work. If you are unable to connect to the internet to download the patch when you first want to play the game then you're just out of luck basically.