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Activision, Call of Duty Fans Deserve A New Engine

Velocity Gamer asks why it's been so long since we've had a completely new system for the Call of Duty franchise. Click the link to see why!

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Orpheus4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

COD fans deserve nothing preceded by the word "new". LOLZ !!!

Orpheus4452d ago

They will always be happy to hand their money to EA no matter what and every time breaking the previous record :P

KwietStorm_BLM4452d ago

Wow, you are a grade-A dumbass.

jizzyjones4452d ago

Epic Fail, can't even Troll Activison properly.

deep_fried_bum_cake4452d ago

I think that EA deserve my money for making the excellent Call of Duty franchise. I'd never give Activision my money though, their game franchises are awful, who would want to play Battlefield and FIFA.

Legionaire20054452d ago

Sh*t at least EA, well except for their Madden series, made a brand new engine for Battlefield 3 with Frostbite 2.0!!! Call of Duty has been the same game since Call of Duty Modern Warfare(2007). Yet people still play it.

SuperK4452d ago

@ Orpheus. Epic fail comment.

jeseth4452d ago

I think he was think about Battlefield ... seeing as how there is at least one Battlefield release a year.

Back under the bridge please Orpheus!

Boody-Bandit4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

Me thinks Orpheus is confused or completely lost. EA?

On topic:
You deserve nothing! We will serve you cow dung soaked in raw sewage on a rusty skewering rod with a side order or monkey feces with cat urine dipping sauce and you mindless drone idiots will thank us for it.

signed
Bobby Kotick

^That is Koticks mindset and 10's of millions of consumers prove him correct year after year, DLC release after DLC release. They will give the consumer a product that cost as little $$$ to make as possible. Sink the biggest portion of their budget into marketing it and the fans will line up like sheep to the slaughter while Kotick and Activision share holders laugh their asses off all the way to the bank.

morganfell4452d ago

I do not like Call of Duty any more than others posting here. But too many people in this thread are part of the problem. Is a new engine really the issue with CoD?

Instead of worrying first about how the game looks you should be concerned about the play mechanics. The article discusses dedicated servers. What does that have to do with a new engine? A new engine will not engender dedicated servers.

The author never justifies why a new engine will make the game better. Quite frankly the engine looks good enough to do the job. That isn't the main issue with CoD. If CoD were running Frostbite 2.0 with dedicated servers would it suddenly be the greatest thing since sliced bread? Hardly.

The writer is a CoD fan and obviously sees nothing wrong with the game mechanics or the play structure. And that is the real problem.

My issue isn't with CoD per se. It is with all of the companies spending millions of dollars and developer effort building CoD clones. Money that could have been better resourced.

Boody-Bandit4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

And this guy ^ (morganfell) has 1 bubble. Just goes to show N4G's rating system is more broken than any game developed this generation.

kparks4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

Agreed with most others not really a problem graphically... My problems with mw3 are as follows... The constant lag. The piss poor map design u can tell they didn't even try with the maps that's why there is 50+ broke down cars in every damn map. The shading in the game is crap every thing is gray and blends in.. to many corners to camp in everything blows up spontaneously. Javilens flying everywhere rpg's flying everywhere noobtubes flying well... Everywhere if ur playing a game like search and the guy with the bomb dies in front of u good luck trying to shoot back cuz there is a big ass upsidedown gold triangle that says BOMB right in the middle of ur screen obstructing ur view while the guy u can't see is strafing back and forth 100mph using stalker pro that perk needs to be removed .. if there one thing BLOPS got right its the tubes being countered by blast shield and the snipers.. blast shield in mw3 is the most garbage worthless perk I've ever seen take it out or boost it big time. O yea the hit detection is crap also.. put them all togeather and u get a garbage game my dumb ass spent 100bucks for. O yea how could I forget the elite website that has been running for 3 months had hundreds of thousands ppl pay good money for it and STILL DON'T WORK RIGHT AND NO CLAN OPS ... End rant

AzaziL4452d ago

Brand new engine? You mean the one they used for Bad Company 2 with the same four classes, re-textured and re-packaged as '3' with less destruction.

I love Battlefield but I have to call it like it is...

Bottom-line, those that think EA is better then Activision or visa versa are kidding themselves.

ChiVoLok04452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

By EA he meant "Effin' Activision", right?

J_Cob4451d ago

Help give morganfell some bubbles N4G community.

Gaming1014451d ago

Why spend tons of money on a new game engine with a ton of glitches that will take years to iron out, when you have a perfectly capable and smooth game engine that millions of people buy into every year? You won't see a change in the game engine unless gamers stop buying Call of Duty, which I don't see happening. The next generation you'll see the same engine just upgraded, don't expect anything different from Activision, they're pressured to make massive profits and you don't do that by taking out what people are buying into and starting out with something you have no idea will work, its just safe and risk-averse business practice.

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meetajhu4452d ago

I suggest activision to go beg idsoftware for idtech5. Still activision has doom 3 engine(idtech4) with them

Oschino19074452d ago

I agree and they have the money to pay for it but COD def doesn't use the idTech4 engine, it uses a heavily modified idTech3. idTech4 is only just recently became availible publically to outside developers when RAGE released.

These are only games to use idTech4

Doom 3 (2004) – id Software
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (2005) – Nerve Software
Quake 4 (2005) – Raven Software
Prey (2006) – Human Head Studios
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007) – Splash Damage
Wolfenstein (2009) – Raven Software
Brink (2011) – Splash Damage

Ramses34452d ago

I think a new engine would be good, it could at least make the game better and draw new players. As much as everyone hates on COD, enough people play it that they deserve some new stuff..

Crazyglues4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

Weather they need it or just want it, really doesn't matter because they ain't getting it..

Activision is not done milking the franchise yet.. so Black-Ops 2 will be the same old engine regardless of what they tell you.... Can you blame them, you guys are buying the game like hotcakes every year regardless of if it's good or not..

(So why would they do a new engine when MW3 uses the same old one and it sold over 25 million copies..)

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vortis4451d ago (Edited 4451d ago )

What's worse is that someone disagreed with you, meaning they think that it's justified to pay $60 for what's essentially an expansion pack.

Aside from the voiceover work, a talented group of 5 modders could actually churn out the same kind of content for Call of Duty each year within the same time frame if they had access to the assets and engine specs.

In fact, there are more impressive Unreal Tournament mods out there than what we've been given with MW2, MW3, Black ops and of course, what we're going to get in Black Ops 2. They'll essentially add in content that was removed from MW3 that was in previous Call of Duty games and people will praise it like it's the second coming.

chriski3334452d ago

Wow really? Activision knows how to make a great MP? yea since 05 they can't balance out the glitches hacks and unbalanced guns even with year after year copy and paste cod still isn't fixed

SSultan4452d ago

Even when people are well aware of a troll they still bite.

FlameBaitGod4451d ago

IMO we should be able to sue them, we make them rich(over 20 mil copies sold) and they cant even provide dedicated servers, fix the same bugs that have been since cod:waw, make anti cheat software for pc cheaters(UT2k4 has it and its what? 8 years old), fking add a kick vote option, new animations or make a new engine. They are a bunch of lazy asses and greedy too

Nitrox4451d ago

Sorry, but I disagree. You can't fault a company for selling a product that people want. Personally if I were to piss in a bottle, label it lemonade, and have people lining up by the millions to buy it, that's exactly what I'd do. That's what Activision does, why change the formula of a product that people go nuckin futz over?

No need to sue anyone, if you don't like the game, don't buy it. That's the ONLY way you'll ever see innovation in the COD series...

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crazypicklemonkey4452d ago

call of duty fans deserve what there getting.

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF4452d ago

Yep. Fun addicting gameplay. And great times partying up with your clan, and enjoying a night of the most polished FPS on consoles.

Cheers to that!

TheFirstClassic4452d ago

The most polished fps on console? Fun addicting gameplay? I can't understand how some people like cod so much. The gameplay is so repetitive I get bored really quick. I have a friend who owns all of the past five cods, and I can't imagine spending that much money on cod alone. I don't like shooters that much anyway, but cod is one of the lowest shooters imo. I would put Killzone, Battlefield, Resistance, and Halo all above cod. The only thing worthwile for cod is the local multiplayer.

I mean no offense to anyone who likes cod, its just an opinion.

-MD-4452d ago

It's "fun" and "addicting" to them because it takes absolutely no effort to be good at it and it makes otherwise mediocre players feel empowered.

Also the only reason it's even remotely "polished" is because they've been releasing the same game since 2007.

jeseth4452d ago

Whose Kool Aid are you guys drinking?

EVERY FPS game is repetitive. Its funny how you can hate and criticize COD for something but put your blinders on when it comes to BF or KZ or Halo, etc.

You can hate on COD for being so fast paced and "arcady", but then I could say BF is fool of camping Snipers and pu$$ies that jump in the nearest vehicle they can find and hide behind a Jet or Tank.

At least COD is 60FPS and hast super slick controls. COD is a very polished game. I agree it needs a graphical facelift but I'm amazed how some franchises get a pass and COD gets all the hate.

Worst part is, all that hate does nothing but take up your time. You aren't changing anyone's mind. We N4G gamers are the minority of the gaming demographic.

Marked4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

@jeseth

"At least COD is 60FPS and hast super slick controls. COD is a very polished game. I agree it needs a graphical facelift but I'm amazed how some franchises get a pass and COD gets all the hate"

All the hate LOL.....-_- you're serious arent you ?

Look at the review scores.....This franchise gets more love then it deserves and it is only because of its commercial value. Many reveiw sites are fanatics also. The story is complete nonsence, so for me the 60$ tag is for yearly DLC.

Now if you have time between frothing over a frohawk....the user reviews on any site in the WWW will show just how feed up gamers are...not just N4g.

I think youre just silly and peolpe like yourself make it very easy for a company like activision to make billions with a complete lack of creative development through all their games.

PetitPiPi4452d ago

"It's "fun" and "addicting" to them because it takes absolutely no effort to be good at it and it makes otherwise mediocre players feel empowered"

This must be a joke. I am far from the biggest COD fan but just because you said the game takes no effort to be good i would love you to join one of our private matches and show those mad skills of yours. I see you rage quiting in 10-15 minutes.

jeseth4452d ago

@ Marked,

I appreciate the personal attack. Didn't know you were so sensitive.

I could care less which game sells more. KZ2 had one of the best MPs this gen but nobody really supported it. I think BF3 is great but more of my friends play COD so thats what I play. You know, because games are meant to be fun .... a good time to have with your friends! Did you forget that? Or are you too busy counting Pixels and FPS (Oh, wait ... you wouldn't look at FPS because it doesn't support your arguments).

COD gets high marks from reviewers ... because ... wait for it, ITS A GOOD GAME! Especially when compared to its competition. And the recycled DLC argument is old and pretty weak. Each FPS is a gradual successor of its predecessor. BF3 is basically the next in line from BFBC2 (even though its actually the sequel of BF2) considering the way the game looks, plays, and engine (1.5 to 2.0). KZ3 to KZ2, R3 to R2, etc. COD adds new content to every game but you just blindly use the way the game looks to make your argument. Which only makes you look like a blind hater.

I play all kinds of games from all kinds of genre's and as I watch you all hate on COD I wonder how much you really play games because games like COD are rare in their completeness. I also believe that the reason COD has "gone down" from the first MW is because Activision/Infinity Ward listens to their fan base too much.

But in the end, games are just meant as a fun way to spend time, not meet your personal agendas. Give it a rest man and have fun. Pixel counting gets you nowhere.

TheFirstClassic4452d ago

@jeseth

"EVERY FPS game is repetitive. Its funny how you can hate and criticize COD for something but put your blinders on when it comes to BF or KZ or Halo, etc."

Of course they all are to an extent, but killzone, halo, and bf all have more variety than cod. Killzone is is very team based, and I really like how the objectives change during online matches, changes things up a bit. Halo and Battlefield both have vehicles, that there alone gives the games more variety in gameplay than cod, and in battlefield you can play very differently depending which class you have, and the destructable enviroments offer more strategy in the way you play. And because you have vehicles, there is more room for what people call "battlefield moments", incredible things you can only do in a game with vehicles. Cod isn't team based, doesn't have the interesting game modes killzone has, and doesn't have any vehicles to change up the pace of play. It's just constant run and gun for the most part. Again, this is just my opinion, so there is no need to call me a kool aid drinker.

miDnIghtEr4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

You people are so wrong about COD. Endoran is right. COD is the most polished FPS on consoles, side by side with Halo.

Who in the hell said Killzone has more game modes then COD? They also said that BF3 has more game modes. Are you kids freaking crazy? That much of fanboys? That much of haters? Even on this site, BF3 has faded under COD as what games are "hot" on this site.

COD has more game modes than any other FPS on console that I can think of. You have Demolition, Domintation, Search and Destroy, Free for All, Team Deathmatch, and plenty more. You have all those modes with "hardcore" before them as well....

Then you have modes like Special Ops, or Zombie mode... You have Gun Game, Kill Confirmed, Infected... THE LIST GOES ON.

You have to be a complete really, really something special, to think that BF3 and Killzone 2 have more game modes than COD.

BF3 can't even put squad mates on the same team for christ sakes, and ALWAYS fricks up your squad and puts them onto two different teams. People who truly play BF3.. They know this to be true. What a joke some of you are on here.

Oh.. COD isn't a team game. Ya, either is Killzone 2, and BF3. People jump in their tanks and jets on BF3, and puss out the whole time, not going for objectives, and turns into a free for all... just like all the rest of the games.

I'm so tired of seeing the haters of COD, that don't even play the game. Then you have that one guy on here, talking about how easy COD is to pick up and play, and it takes no skill to play the game. Ya, I bet you suck hard at COD.. it amazes me how people say COD is so easy, yet so many people suck at it. You'd think more people would have a better K/D ratio if it was so easy wouldn't you?

You COD haters are so tiresome. Again.. check the list on N4G main page, on what games are "hot". COD has passed the flash in the pan BF3 that was at the top spot, and nobody gives a crap about it anymore. COD is on top AGAIN, for a reason.

PS.. funny how people, (well, most were problably little kids at the time they came out) but COD 3 had multiple vehicles, and COD W@W had tanks. Just wait till next gen when COD has tanks again, and vehicles. Hopefully it will have destructable enviroments as well next gen with the power of new consoles.

And won't be a 30fps slow fest like Killzone and BF on consoles.

Marked4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

@jeseth

Please dont generalize me......I'm not a pixel counter or a hater of any type. If your curious enough...check out my PS3 ID its marked also, my trophy list may speak for its self. When I want a pretty game...I play it on my PC.

As for COD, it has become borrrrinnnggg in what ever state it exists...but, your assumptions and generalizations is what I laughed and found very silly. Please see it this way, the maps are what kills me...there is little room for diversity. Its the same traffic areas, the same flanks and the same miss managed weapons...ALL with different skins attached to a wire frame. What have they added? Dolphine dive and a theater mode which demonstrates how out of sync the connections are.

I agree if you are in a clan that can populate a room....its alot of fun. Just call me jaded other wise. I hate when commercial tactics of youll be part of the cool guys community are systematically feed to me till I think its a must. Fuck popular culture....its mearly rich men brain washing the masses.

By the way, I love your stuff.

EDIT: one more thing. Does it not irritate you that activision will profit BILLIONS for rereleasing the same tech every year but only invests that money in high priced voice actors. Who gives a shit if ice cude is the narorator a month after its played? Who cares that they spend millions to produce a commercial with over priced actors? then spend several 100s of millions to put it during every commercial break possible for 3 months? Wouldnt you be happier if these fucking pricks could at least sell the game for 49.99....since they cant even offer dedicated servers or innovation. Screw 60fps...it makes little difference when you adapt and have no other choice. Id love to see all games run at 1080p and 60 + fps but, I had to pay a $1000 for that on PC.

COD is like an old comfort that no one wants to get rid of and many cry when mommy comes to through it in the washer.

InTheZoneAC4452d ago

lol he said polished...

they could simply make mw2, mw3, black ops, and black ops 2 all DLC to MW1

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SSultan4452d ago

Naw, COD fans deserve better. Just like console BF fans deserve the full experience that is on PC.

LX-General-Kaos4452d ago

COD fans deserve to be left alone. If you dont like COD then go play something else.

BattleAxe4452d ago

That's precisely what I did :)

SonyPS3604452d ago

@Jeseth

Activision cares. They want more customers as well squeezing all of the money out of people like you.

mcstorm4452d ago

That is well put. TBH Im not a COD fan I did not like MW and have not picked up a COD since but I think I have out done my self with FPS games when I look back at what I have bought over the last 4 or 5 years there has been alot of shooters bought by me. Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach, Halo CEA, Killzone 1 and 2, Bulletstorm, Alan Wake, Gears or Ware 1 2 3, Crysis 2, MoH, uncharted 1 2, Killzone 1 2 3, Bad company 1 2, Batlefield 3, MW, Resi 5. I know there not all FPS game but this is just some shooting games I have bought this gen and I have found my self playing them less and less and starting to play Forza 4 and GT5 more and more online.

GraveLord4452d ago

Yes, we do but if that comes at a cost like less modes and 30FPS and even shorter campaign? It'snot worth it.

PS3/360 aren't powerful enough to keep that 60FPS that sets COD apart from the competition.

stevenhiggster4452d ago

RAGE says hi. Ok it doesn't have as much action and it has pretty bad texture pop in but they could scale it back a little, keep the 60fps and still be far prettier than the tweaked id tech 3 engine that COD uses.

scrambles4452d ago (Edited 4452d ago )

Work out the kinks with the megatextures and such it would be great. The whole "we have maxed out the capabilities of the xbox/ps3" is just nonsense. Theres no one left at IW who has any programming talent nor are they willing to invest in something that could take more than 2 yrs! I dont even know if they take 2 years to make it. They probably just get a yr off from work then begin as soon as the other CoD releases. I bet theyll hire 4 or 5 studios when they really want to get the work done then theyll just absorb them into the company or fire them to save money/take all the credit.

SonyPS3604452d ago

Then play it on PC, where it'll run a more powerful engine at 60fps and above.

This is why console gamers have ruined the potential of PC gaming.

COD used to be a decent PC game.

dazzrazz4452d ago

Call of Doody needs to crash and burn, maybe this will wake up Activision.Otherwise they will just keep milking that name every year with same shit in slightly different package

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.

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GoodGuy0911d ago (Edited 11d ago )

Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.

Tacoboto10d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga10d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo10d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?

Inverno10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb198110d ago

I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.

PRIMORDUS10d ago (Edited 10d ago )

Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.

StoneTitan10d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut8510d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra30309d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.

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Call of Duty Players Disappointed by $80 B.E.A.S.T. Glove Bundle Deal

Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.

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Kaii18d ago

Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash

melons18d ago

Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.

Gridknac17d ago

They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.

X-2316d ago

I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.