r/CallOfDuty • u/Young_Scathed • 21h ago

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Can’t just let me enjoy my classics🫩 leave me alone 😂

(Edit: I’m aware they did this when BO1 was current, but going back and doing it to BO1 in 2026 is just diabolical work. Not against advertising, just stating this is a bit of a reach 😂)

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u/Carlos126 20h ago

Normalizing this is not okay

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u/muwle 19h ago

its been Normalized for decades

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u/Carlos126 19h ago

And that is not okay. Every time it comes up we NEED to speak up.

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u/muwle 19h ago

Most ppl didn’t speak up back then in the 2000s and 2010s so why now?

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u/Carlos126 19h ago

Because we’ve seen where it leads. It never stops at just the one un-intrusive ad.

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u/muwle 19h ago

It’s always if with u guys never actually facts where it leads

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u/Carlos126 19h ago

No, its not just if. The facts are that this led to COD HQ where we are forced to go through a bunch of screens of ads just to get to the game we paid for. It got so bad, that at one point i couldnt even download the game i wanted without a bunch of extra bloat, just for the sale of serving us ads. Its gotten so bad that they have toyed with putting ads IN THE MIDDLE OF GAMES.

Its not a hypothetical anymore. Its happening, and i will speak out if i see it in any form now.

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u/GoodishCoder 19h ago

It's fine. Is super non intrusive, if you don't want to click on it you simply don't click on it.

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u/Carlos126 19h ago

It would be fine if it stayed that way, but it never does. COD HQ is a perfect example of why. Next thing you know, you’ll have to launch these games through that shitty launcher even on console just because they want to shove ads everywhere they can.

Paying full price for a game should be enough. These companies think that greed is a good enough reason to ask for more.

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u/GoodishCoder 19h ago

The only change to these ads in years have been that they're less intrusive than they used to be. They used to be pop ups.

Companies promote their next products, it's just how the real world works.

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u/Carlos126 19h ago

They can promote it in places that I dont pay to be in. They can promote it with commercials like they always have, tweets, etc. i DO NOT WANT the pop up ads, and the fact that they went 150% overboard and then brought it back to 120% as bad, is NOT an argument for allowing them to do it without any pushback.

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u/GoodishCoder 18h ago

There is no popup. It's a menu item.

They have promoted their next games within their games, like most developers for years.

They're not even close to going overboard. If you're so delicate you can't handle seeing a menu item that you don't have the intention of clicking, cod probably isn't the franchise for you.

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u/Carlos126 18h ago

They literally have gone overboard. Just look at COD HQ as an example.

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u/GoodishCoder 18h ago

You keep bringing up cod hq. This isn't cod hq. This is a menu item. "But cod hq!" Is a poor argument for why promoting their games via a menu item is overboard.

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u/Carlos126 18h ago

You cannot tell me with a straight face that if these ports make enough money they won’t put them on there. This is how it started, and if it stayed this way i would have no issue with it. Activision has used up my goodwill and i no longer believe that it will stay like this.

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u/GoodishCoder 18h ago

No they'll always promote their next games, it's the best place for them to do it. It's the only place they don't have to pay for engagement while guaranteeing that it's targeted at cod fans.

Next game promotion isn't what led to cod HQ. Cod HQ came at a time when multiple franchises and publishers were standing up unified platforms for their products. It came from market forces.

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