Who cares? It's Activision and CoD. They receive the backlash, they suffer the consequences. Less pre orders for an overrated lootboxMTX first person shooter franchise. More pre orders/sales to other games that deserve it. Fine by me.

Big difference between absolving Sony and blaming Activision. Or do you would say that if Sony said they don't want Activision wouldn't go to MS?

The evidence is staring you in the face, but you can choose to ignore it. Xbox had these deals last gen and the beginning of this gen. However, MS wasn't going to spend that kind of money on XBO anymore. Instead of taking a PR hit, Spencer spun it as him hating these deals so he wouldn't do them anymore. Even though he most likely played a role in getting them last gen and the beginning of this gen, as well as full games as timed exclusives for XBO even after that comment, albeit smaller ones.

We'll see how deep his hate for this kind of stuff really goes at the beginning of next gen, when MS gives him another shot at making Xbox a success.

If multiplayer, I pass. I don't give a shit about CoD MP, there are better shooters for MP. If the campaign is at least decent like the first MW. I'll only play it.

The last cod I played was MW2...

You're using example from previous gens, and early this gen. I guess it's impossible for someone to change how they feel about something. Even if he is just doing it for PR, probably a bit of both, it's still a change in a positive direction. He wasn't referring to full timed exclusive games in the comment, but whatever. 

You're right, we will see. 

That is because they wouldn't change because they became charitable, it is mostly PR and marketing. You can see plenty of his PR announcements that a new few days later were in the opposite direction.

You can see how obvious it is, because if they were changing because they though it was a bad thing they would keep it internal. But he have done all of it in an attempt to attack Sony, so all hints at he spinning the truth of he not having budget approval for the practice into all of a sudden he hating it since ever but just now being able to stop it.

The idea that MS isn’t doing these deals any more because of budget or cost is nonsense, especially when you pair it with this idea people are throwing around to cleanse Sony of any blame, that it’s entirely the fault of publishers.

Publishers like money, and if MS isn’t paying a certain amount of money, publishers would take less. For this idea that it’s all about budget to make any sense we’d have to see a bunch of smaller deals or even similar deals depending on the publisher but we haven’t, they’re just gone.

Also it’s not as if Spencer went out making it known he is against these deals screaming it from rooftops. He’s been asked in interviews and on twitter and he responded.

roadkill idk why you’d expect genuine discussion here from a user who literally predicts MS is leaving the console space any time they do anything. Of course he is going to spin anything Spencer says or does negatively.

And Activi$ion loses a ton of pre-orders on the game for their greedy shenanigans, LOL: 

Serves the fuckers right, not just for the timed-exclusivity bullshit, but for P2W loot boxes containing weapons.

And as for the all-too common "won't somebody think of the developers?" Yeah, no, I'm not gonna support and enable greedy bullshit just so they can keep producing garbage for the greed monsters, not to mention they already got paid for their work on the game. The only people helped by your purchase are the greedy fuckers at the top, throwing in P2W loot boxes and locking entire game modes on 1 platform for an entire year (basically the game's entire life span). And rest assured, they'll keep doing this shady bullshit with CoD every year like they have been until you stop buying their games.

And now they're saying the file size will be 175gb will all post-launch content on PC, meaning the base game is probably 100 gigs. 

Like I needed anymore reason to boycott the game. 

Yeah, Activi$ion did say loot boxes are gone, but remember, they also snuck microtransactions into Crash Team Racing: Nitro Refueled after saying they wouldn't and snuck in loot boxes and throttled XP in BO4 post-launch. They also said supply drops in MWII would be cosmetic-only before launch and later snuck in weapons exclusive to supply drops after it came out, so never trust Activi$ion with anything.

It’s so bizarre how anti-Activision you are for scummy moves yet you’re apparently a huge Capcom fan.