Another day, another "fuck Activi$ion" thread. This time, they've added fucking loot boxes to BO4, and they didn't just add them, they fucking snuck them in post-launch after everyone's already reviewed and (sadly) bought the game so it doesn't hurt their bottom line:

Even worse, they fucking LIED about them. They said back in September that any supply drop items would be cosmetic only and they're now putting DLC weapons with in-game advantages in them. This on top of throwing in a $50 season pass, battle pass, microtransactions and RETICLES for a $60 game. *sigh* Activi$ion, do you pride yourself on being fucking criminals in addition to being colossal scumbags? False advertising is illegal in case you didn't know. 

But yeah, this great Reddit user has the right idea:

Glad I didn't buy BO4.

I did enjoy Black Ops 4 for a while but it's hard to keep enjoying it when the game is constantly screaming at me to spend more money on it. And asking $50 for 4 maps of which 2 are absolutely horrible is just criminal.

Jim Sterling has the right idea: 

Is anyone really surprised, though? It's Activi$ion for sake of fuck. If you don't know to avoid like the plague anything by the evil 4 companies (EA, Acti, Konami, Ubisoft) by now, then you're pretty much inviting yourself to be conned with grindy/money-sucking bullshit or even illegal shit like, I don't know, false advertising. 

When will people learn that Activi$ion is Activi$ion and they'll never change until they stop buying their games (!)?

Who seriously expected the game to stay without them? They have become a staple of Activision's games. Next new Crash Bandicoot game will probably have them.

Talk about perfect timing. Everyone is currently busy with EA, Bioware and the disaster that is Anthem so good ol' Activision took the opportunity to sneak in some loot-boxes.

Why Ubisoft? They release good games and the game I'm currently playing, AC: Odyssey, sure has tons of content for your buck.

Of course there was. At this point that's just the basic expectation I have for most AAA titles, especially with these big 3rd party publishers like Activision, EA, WB and Ubisoft. It's just the state of the industry today, and that won't change until these actions actually begin to hurt their profits.

And in other news, water is wet.

Seriously, we're talking about Activision here, whoever didn't expect this to come was either blind or lying to himself. Same goes for EA, THQ and Konami, and to a slightly lesser degree, Ubisoft and Capcom. What they are doing ain't games anymore, but legal extortion. Time to follow Belgium and get rid of it!

Absolute Apeshit Assholes would be my guess

Funny you say that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbEtxD9nU6o

Source: https://www.asyousow.org/report/the-100-most-overpaid-ceos-2019

"Hello Activision customer support.... yeah I'm jumping on the crate but it just isn't breaking.... okay...... £1.99 to open them? no... just this crate? but it could have some lives in it or Fruit now? that's great, I'll take 200 crates plix!!"

The “in game advantage” you’re referencing is bonus XP. Aka worthless. The “battle pass” you’re mentioning when you bring up monetization.... is free.

I’m not a fan of Activision or CoD but this is just angry Internet white noise. Gotta have something to bitch about.