AATG writes:
"Modern Warfare 2's Special Ops modes required 69 stars (23 levels' worth) for 100% completion. Whereas Modern Warfare 3's 48 stars leads us to believe it contains only 16 Special Ops levels.
Activision has gone on the record to state that subscribers to its premium Call of Duty Elite service will receive new in-game content each and every month which lends credibility to speculation that it's stripped out game content in order to then later sell you it as premium DLC."
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Players are using hacks to gain an advantage in the game, such as aimbots and wall hacks. The first gives a player superhuman aiming abilities, while a wall hack lets you see through walls to gauge where other players are.
“These hacks are typically used by PC players, but those playing on PC via Xbox Game Pass are identified as Xbox players in multiplayer lobbies.”
This is pretty dumb to say the least.
Don't Gamepass online games have anti-cheat systems?
If not, that's pretty dumb. Microsoft need to fix that asap.
I mean, COD games was always filled with hackers, nothing new. I can’t blame MS on this. Activision had years to try and fix this. Might take MS some time to make some change.
The Yokai's Wrath bundle was released despite previous guarantees by Activision that A.I. would not be used for final assets, per the report. Instead, Activision assured developers it was simply for internal concepts. That, of course, was not followed through. For what it's worth, per the PlayStation Store, 2,400 COD Points cost $19.99, meaning players potentially spent real-life money on a skin that was not created by an actual human.
As far as A.I. use goes across Activision, a source told Wired that 2D artists are utilizing A.I. to aid their work. That is a result of mass layoffs, in which many 2D artists were impacted. “A lot of 2D artists were laid off,” the source named Noah said. “Remaining concept artists were then forced to use A.I. to aid in their work.” Mandatory A.I. trainings have been implemented, according to Noah.
Activision. And MS. They will ruin console gaming forever.
Oh and where the FRIGGIN outrage people? When Sony makes a remaster of a masterpiece single player story driven game, they get roasted. But this, this, goes unnoticed? Then don’t complain that you aren’t getting enough single player story games.
"The Yokai's Wrath bundle was released despite previous guarantees by Activision that A.I. would not be used for final assets, per the report."
We're talking concept art? Because as of right now there's no way to generate a final 3D model with final textures. So the final assets don't use AI. That's not to say that it sucks for 2D artist that it's easier to generate visual ideas and build from them leading to less 2D artists needed (really sucks), but are they say the final concept art was completely AI generated and then 3D artists built from that? And yes, I'll pile on that Activision as a publisher and their developers I have experience with suck and they'll do whatever, ethics be damned.
Wow I can just imagine the likes of Activision, EA and Ubi etc having an army of AIs creating overpriced crap and the fanboys just lapping it up. I hope the AIs have a good union.
I understand why people think it’s good idea to Unionize to fight back against such things but it’s not. It’s a bad idea. It’s activisions wet dream to have these pumped out weekly by some AI. Protect your neck!
... It's Activision. They'd do anything for money. They're evil!
Well Duuuuuuh!
I'm shocked they haven't just sold gamers a empty box for $60 and said the game will be another $60 in DLC!
Do people even need to ask? i took a look at the Blackops DLC on PSN yesterday just to see how much all the DLC cost and surprise surprised $60 total for every single map pack.
If that isn't greed i don't know what is and why wouldn't Activision leave out content if its selling for such a premium price individually.
It does sound that way but mw3 still prob has more content than every other shooter. We get a survival mode where you can play on every multiplayer map, spec ops, and more maps than other games. They couldve sold the survival mode as dlc or had one map per map pack like zombies. COD has dlc because its so popoular, new maps keep people interested. In a smaller community like kz3 or homefront it can split the community but in massive games it keeps it going plus you dont need it. I can still find matches in mw and waw without the dlc so its for the hardcore players who get burned out on 14 maps in 3 months because its all they play. I dont like dlc id rather it be in the game but if they make it after and its not necessary to have why not? Only gripe i have is how its 15 bucks, should be 10 MAX.
If anyone is unsure about how much contents are moved to Elite subscription, don't rush to buy MW3 immediately. Plus if you wait, the online multiplayer will be more patched by then. Somehow there will be plenty of gamers who just can't wait and then complain about it later.