Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Accused Of Becoming A "Play On PlayStation To Win Game"

Activision and Sony have been heavily criticised by Call of Duty fans over "anti-consumer" Black Ops Cold War PlayStation exclusivity.
Yesterday it emerged that PlayStation 4 and 5 players of Treyarch and Raven's first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War get two extra create a class slots, extra tier skips, extra weapon XP and exclusive double XP events.
The Battle Pass Bundle Bonus, as it's called, gives PlayStation players who buy the $20 Battle Pass Bundle an additional five tier skips - that makes for a total of 25 tier skips.

[Jin_Sakai]

Reminds me of the 360/PS3 era.

[Fishy Fingers]

Because they had crossplay? :/

[NEXUS-6]

Ahhhh crossplay - the feature no one with a PS4 wanted. Nothing better than being in an MP game and seeing PC players move faster, aim faster, dodge quicker, the odd hacker.

Get rid of crossplay.

[EmperorDalek]

@Nexus - Crossplay helps keep playerbases active. People weren't asking for it to work with PC, everyone knew that would be unbalanced. If a game does have issues with it, and you don't have any friends on other systems to play with, then you can disable it in pretty much every game I've seen.

You lose nothing with crossplay. Get over it.

[NEXUS-6]

Emperor - Never had a problem getting into MP games on PS4.

When you disable it, they penalise you with slow ping lobbies.

The otherside pissed and moaned like a kid who dropped their ice-cream, now the people who made the right choice are paying for it - gtfo with that bs.

Friends on other systems haha, I shun the lepers mate - let's all hold hands and sing kumbyaya.

Pathetic.

[SpineSaw]

I turn the crossplay off and I hope that's a option for this game. As far as the player base on PC and Xbox being active that's not my problem. I have a Xbox One S but Ca!! If Duty is a Playstation game and that's where the biggest player base plays so that's where I play.

[badz149]

@EmperorDalek

LOL you're really serious talking about "playerbases" about CoD?? like...are you serious? do you know how many still play the old CoD games even on last-gen consoles?

[scofios]

Where were this crying hypocretes when Xbox 360 had call of duty exclusieve partnership ?

[Ausbo]

Those were 30 day map packs. Not extra XP and things that impact gameplay and year long exclusive modes. There’s your difference

[seanpitt23]

Can’t believe people are going to actually buy this trash game, Activision will always make billions regardless of what quality they put out because they know people will buy it

BO CW is a game that was made in a pandemic

[REDGUM]

Both TLOU2 CYBERPUNK 2077 we're made during the pandemic too, I guess they are & will be trash too??? C'mon, just because you don't like a game doesn't mean it'll be trash, it just means you'll be playing a different game whilst others pay COD that's all.
Bashing a game just because you don't like it is vastly different from an unplayable game with major issues making it trash.
From what I played of the beta & alpha it ran pretty good, was stable and I had a fun time playing it.
Will it be the best game eva, no but far from trash.

[seanpitt23]

Your logic is way off TLOU and cyberpunk had an extra 4 to 5 year dev time and they was pushed back because of the pandemic multiple times... BO CW has 2 year dev time of nearly half that was through a pandemic with no delays, but mark my words when this game comes out it’s going to be a s*it show and people are going to complain because the game is going to be a massive disappointment.

[Mr Logic]

Wow I had no idea a studio could make a AAA game in the span of ~8 months. Thank you so much for enlightening me with your wisdom.

[gold_drake]

u say trash game, but its MAD fun when u play with ur mates.

also, TLOU was made in the pandemic, Cyberpunk too. so whats ur point? if u dont like it, dont buy it. criticism is good but trashing a game just because u dont like it is beyond stupid

[boing1]

I would say It's trash because it's made on old tech, pre-MW. For me Beta was an unpleasant experience because everything felt like old COD. Weapons, feedback, movement, etc. Different game IMO. MW and Warzone spoiled me so much that I gave up after 5min.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Series should just die already, year after year same shit new coat of paint. I gave up on COD after Advanced Warfare. Next...

[amagulick]

A lot of people obviously enjoy it, otherwise they wouldn't sell so much. The game isn't for you, so play something else. Let the people who enjoy it play it.

[Applejack]

Nah, he should continue commenting about a game he apparently gave up on and rain on other people’s parade. /s

[Double_O_Revan]

Now that's not fair! Activision will whore themselves out to which ever console pays them the most! It just so happens that this time is Sony.

[DiRtY]

Timed exclusive DLC is one thing, but giving gamers on one specific console a competitive advantage over other gamers on the other console and PC is something else.

That is just not okay.

And cross play is here to stay and it is beautiful! But Activision came up with the worst possible solution for it.

[NEXUS-6]

Crossplay stinks, especially in FPS MP games. And it is the only reason this is an issue.

[SpineSaw]

No on forces you to buy the lesser game. You can buy the better game on a PlayStation console. PlayStation is the best place to game every gamer should have a PlayStation.

[Epicor]

Call me crazy but I don't understand what's the problem here. Extra weapon XP? So what? You can unlock cosmetics faster. Two extra loadouts? Does this really give any competitive edge? Sure if gives nice quality of life addition but hardly makes a difference between winning or losing. There are nevertheless multiple loadout slots for all players. And for competitive purpose only few loadouts are really needed. There is literally nothing unfair about these PlayStation related benefits. But of course I understand that people don't like any console exclusive in-game content. But not liking something doesn't mean it's unfair competitively.

[Challengerscatpack]

The gameplay trailer looked awesome and I was excited to play it but this is ridiculous. I said FU to Bobby Kotick and activision on back in the 360/PS3 era. This would have been the first COD I bought in a long time, guess not. I’m not supporting this crap, they show once again all they care about is money first.

[masterfox]

nice :D

[Petebloodyonion]

It's a new low for Activision :(
Honestly I stopped buying COD game after the cheat fest WW2 on PC and discovered Overwatch a game that you always start on equal footing you start a match (unlike WW2 lvl 999999999 after 1 day).

[VersusDMC]

Heavily criticized by "Xbox" fans.
And here comes another anti consumer pile up for Sony when anti consumer isn't used for describing buying up multi platform developers...ugh. But the controversy is just ads for "less grinding on PlayStation"

[EmperorDalek]

I fail to see how any of this will give an advantage to PlayStation users. it just lets them rank up faster, which doesn't really help them win games, especially in the long term.

[EFFIN_Adduce]

the trailer shows that on PlayStation you get two bonus additional slots for attachments. So you can have silencer grips etc and still put on an extra barrel and scope etc that other platforms can't. Seems like an unfair advantage to me...

[MorningStar]

It's loadout slots to can have 12 custom classes (set ups) compared to the standard 10 on PC & Xbox so not additional attachments but I'm still with you in it being wrong

[mostarr]

No thats wrong

[gamer9]

Agreed, i don't see the big deal. And i'm on xbox.

[dcbronco]

Sounds like Sony paid someone a lot of money.

[Father__Merrin]

If there was no crossplay the pc servers go dead quick.

[stevecharles]

I need it

[BioShockGX]

Best place to play.