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submitted 2 months ago by Buttflapper@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Since I'm a WoW addict, naturally I'm a Blizzard fan, of sorts. But my mind is blown every time I see anything from Call of Duty on the launcher. I've been really out of the loop, and recently saw this.... and I'm shocked. You have to BUY the game for "open beta access", like how does that make any sense? Also, the general look of the game and its marketing now looks like a $5 ripoff FPS game on Steam... What the heck happened?

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How is this only blowing your mind now and not the entire past decade or so where this has become the norm for the giant corpo devs like Blizz, EA, and Ubisoft? This has been common long enough that I've become completely numb to it now.

[-] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Because I haven't been following AAA for the past decade..?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 2 months ago

That's a good policy. I highly recommend sticking with it. 🫠

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