re: Retro Call of Duty Thread: Will the nostalgia last? Jump in and party up...

Man we had 5 of us OG LESI on Black Ops Friday night and you were the first one I thought of that would’ve loved it.

MS/ABK deal has not closed yet, and the FTC's administrative proceedings will still proceed in October after the deal closes, so MS/ABK would not be engaged in any activity that couldn't be viewed as an "arms length" transaction by regulators.

If that were due to the MS purchase, the PC version would be working too. Increased communication between XBox and ABK, and decreased communication from Sony because they've very publicly refused to talk to MS/ABK recently, could very likely be the reason for this.

It came out during the injunction hearing that Sony did a similar thing with Minecraft and that's why PS5 doesn't have a native version of that game.

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currently, all available PS3 games on PS5 are cloud only and only available with the PS+ Premium subscription. so it could play them, but i doubt Microsoft would let Sony host them.

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Maybe not, but currently Microsoft has no hand in this decision. If this is important to Sony, I'm sure they could add it to their upcoming agreement with Microsoft after the ABK purchase closes.

You're probably right about that. I was shocked to learn the servers still functioned at all.

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i don't think there's much money in nostalgia.

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maybe. i tend to believe there is a market, albeit a small one, for an old school arcade shooter, one solely focused on 6v6 arena multiplayer. Not a battle royale or some extraction royale. Just a straight up clean old school 6v6 arena shooter.

I think that’s why we see excitement and a push behind the XDefiants of the world and why the old school CODs can pull 10k+ players on a single gaming platform by just turning on their multiplayer servers.

this was 2:30am this morning on Steam

i wonder what it'll be later on this evening

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Man we had 5 of us OG LESI on Black Ops Friday night and you were the first one I thought of that would’ve loved it.

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Brokeception

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i've been reading that theres input lag on xbox one and series x/s. anyone on 360?

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I still have all of those consoles. I'll try it if I have time. I'm still getting my Series X set up though

i’d be really interested to see if you compared the total number of active users on MWII(2022) vs All Active users across the OG CODs on XBOX Live this week (COD4, MWII, BO1, BO2, MW3). At a given time on weeknight this week.

Then I think we will have the answer to your question if there is a market for old school 6v6 arena shooter. If there are more players going back getting a taste of that “the way COD used to be” nostalgia vs the current shitshow of MWII(2022), then there is absolutely a market for “old school COD”