The first Battle Pass for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is scheduled to drop next week alongside the game's big batch of Season One content, but as is tradition, you'll need to hand over some cash in order to access every reward each tier has to offer. That's according to well-known Call of Duty leaker Senescallo, at least.
Explained in a post on Reddit, they state that the Battle Pass will be made up of 104 tiers, but only 23 of them will hand out their rewards for free. You'll need to purchase the game's premium option to unlock the other 81 items on offer. This is typical of any Battle Pass in today's world, even replicating them to the point where you'll earn 1300 COD points -- the title's premium currency -- if you progress through enough tiers.
Of course, this is by no means confirmation, which is set to arrive along with the content drop on 3rd December, but the leaker then goes on to detail the entire Battle Pass and supplies images of the items you'll earn. For example, reaching the top set of ranks hands out XP tokens, Charms, weapon blueprints, and character skins. We'll finally get to equip a watch by unlocking the very first tier if this leak is to be believed, however. This is all seems to be the real deal from where we're standing.
Will you be buying Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's premium Battle Pass? Skip a few tiers in the comments below.
[source reddit.com]
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A battle pass for a paid game? Lol I understand for the free to play games like fortnite and apex legends etc but for a £40 game they want more money for a battle pass is a joke
@playstation_king That's just how it is nowadays.
@LiamCroft I suppose so yeah but didn't think paid games would do battle passes aswell though, is this the only paid game that offers a battle pass so far?
@playstation_king Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and Destiny 2 have Battle Passes too. If it's a Game as a Service, it more than likely has one.
@playstation_king It basically replaces the Season Pass...this time the map DLC etc is free to avoid splitting the player base, the other stuff not.
It's the Activision/Blizzard staple...no game was ever going out the door without some sort of post release monetisation. If anything this is probably the least aggressive form it's taken in a fair few releases.
It is, however, a sorry reflection of games media as a whole (Then again, the budgets are absolutely immense these days). It just seems to be the way it is these days and that's rather sad, I'll admit. It also seems to be the continuation of the worrying trend into these types of sales tactics.
The cost compared to the potential reawards makes it good value if you like the game.
if it's a bunch of cosmetic tat, i couldn't care less.. i generally don't even bother with the customisations you can unlock for free. as long as the gun works the same whether it's a default skin or pimped out gold bling ultra camo, no big deal.
Terrible state of affairs that everyone just says “that’s how it is now” and says good value.
It shouldn’t be.
I highly doubt I pay for this. I’m not really bothered by cosmetic rewards.
@LemonHaze But it's not a car. It's a computer game.
I understand there's nothing I can do about battle passes unfortunately, capitalism is everywhere these days. Even going the park you have to rent footy pitches. Car finance deals are veering towards rentals in all but name and 35 year mortgages are way more popular than ever. That's life now.
Battle passes are the least worst option for monetisation post release in a digital game, at this moment in time. They can also be fun and an incentive to play often.
That doesn't mean it should be praised. Far from it. In another 3-4 years time they will be a frankenstein version of the Fortnite battle passes we see today. They are mini subscriptions. Pay a tenner this month, ten the next.
Play for 5 months and you have spent £100 on one game. This will get worse going forward, as unlike buying a car which you pay up front for what you get day one. Activision has full capability to change the terms of the deal when they see fit.
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