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.

[GoodGuy09]

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.

[Tacoboto]

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.

[Cacabunga]

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

[KyRo]

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

[franwex]

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?

[Inverno]

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.

[jjb1981]

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.

[PRIMORDUS]

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.

[StoneTitan]

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

[Psychonaut85]

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

[Ra3030]

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"!

[SimpleSlave]

Um, actually, Corporate Greed ruined Call of Duty by Corporate Greed.

[jznrpg]

Activision and gamers who buy the MT’s and Battle Passes ruined CoD. Can’t put the blame on anyone else nobody forced either to make or buy them.

[shinoff2183]

Perfect answer. It's on those that supported it as well.

[lucian229]

Call if duty cash shop was bad before fortnite ever existed. Not to mention fortnite battle passes are cheap and actually good

Back in the day call of duty was making people buy 500$ in loot boxes just to get a katana as a knife

[jambola]

that's like saying the piss ruined the shit sandwhich

[Lionsguard]

I can't emphasize how well I sleep knowing I've never once been interested in Fortnite or CoD after it went all multiplayer in-game store crap.

[ocelot07]

The main reason I ditched cod MW3 to black ops 4 was because of the dlc. Seemed like every month a new paid for map pack released.

Lots of people bought the maps. But a lot didn't so it split the player base. So I quit cod.

Fortnite imo saved it for me. Free maps and new weapons. The option of battle pass and can end up being a one time fee and take part in many battle passes as each season providing you play enough give you enough coins to purchase the next season's pass.

[anast]

The younger one's like cheap stupid stuff and they are the biggest consumers.

[fsfsxii]

Lets be real here, it all started with csgo knife skins and the stupid hats on tf2, lets not kid ourselves. Every gaming bad practice started on pc.

[Profchaos]

No Activision has spent more than a decade allowing their military shooter to be slowly infested by purple fluro riffles, paid DLC and now rappers and aging famous hippies play in this military shooter.

Greed killed it not fortnite

[TrueRican69]

Let all be honest into the community stop buying they game call of duty will give us shit game we the gamers got stand together and say look Activision we not buying your game this year into you met are demand. Be all them skin are bullshit and they know it. If community stand as one and not give them are money watch them change.

[shinoff2183]

To be fair there both horrible.

[mastershredder]

Fortenight gamers ... mad about playing too much for the pool they keep peeing in. Reap it.