re: Official Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Thread - Verdansk returns 4/3/25

Has anyone kept up with the news in this game?

Apparently, Activision/Microsoft have lost nearly all the players they gained since release.

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If Verdanzk busts,

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I think this is all but a guarantee... They are going to solidify the exodus from CoD when they temporarily regain the player base that has already left by bringing back Verdansk, only to shite the bed with it. They are going to KILL any kind of nostalgia that Verdansk has if they are trying to integrate it with BO6 omnimovement/weapons/gameplay features.

What they should do is re-release the original Warzone in all of its glory, exactly the way it was. Even if just for a few months out of the year. I'd pay the cost of a new CoD title just to go back to that game for 2 months out of the year. There's nothing more I'd enjoy in gaming right now than to hot drop superstore, grab my hip fire mp5 and kar98 with my Damascus camo, then grab a heli and go fly at some kids.

They are going to frick this up royally. They are too focused on making cool-looking Fortnite-esque skins to sell battle passes and bundles from the store as opposed to actually putting out a functional game.

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you mean like what Fortnite did? that was a success.

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Yes, they should release Verdansk in the same exact way that Fortnite went back to their OG map/weapons/loot. The only thing that OG warzone didn't have that I'd like to keep from current WZ would be prox chat, but even that isn't a huge deal to me.

Is this just steam? That sounds like almost nobody is playing

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Steam is currently the only player count Activision allows. There is no data for consoles and Activision isn’t going to release any. But we can likely assume that it’s within the margins for consoles as well.

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I got Black Ops 6 back in October and enjoyed it at first. Started playing less and less. I got Baldur's Gate 3 in December and haven't touched Black Ops 6 since.

I'm on PS5.

None of buddies that were playing BLOPS 6 are really playing anymore either. They're all on console.

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I bought that shite too. How is it?

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I'm really enjoying it, but be warned, it is a huge time suck! You feel like you're playing for an hour or so and you look up and it's been 6 hours.

I’ve played every COD since MW2 (except infinite warfare) and proud to say I skipped this one. I just knew it was going to be a clunker. The only thing that could save their game is to make it free to play. They are trying to rival Fortnite with their customization bullshite but you have to pay $70 to even load into the game compared to $0 to load into Fortnite. People would put up with a lot more of COD’s bs if it was free and they would have a larger player base to earn battle pass subscriptions and skins. They just aren’t smart enough to do it. Too greedy.

Verdansk trailer...

I'm definitely going to try it out, but I have ZERO expectations that they will make it what it should be.

Even if they knock it out of the park with Verdansk, they still have the whole hacking issue that has to be addressed. To regain and retain the player base they have lost, including myself, they can't focus on one or the other, they must do both.