Rumour: Much of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's Season One Battle Pass Must Be Paid For

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

Listen up its a pretty good system, u pay once 10 euro or 1100 cod points. If u pre-ordered u allready have 500 ingame for free, so u need to grind only 600 cp with tiers. So your next battlepass 27 January is free

Edit: u dont have to get it, and it is not pay to win

@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.

@hotukdeals

Agree.

@LemonHaze bit early to call "it's not pay to win" given we no idea what any of those tiers hold... You have to pay that's all that we realistically know... What we are paying for... cosmetics, crappy emblems, tags, weapons? Who knows... And Activision say weapons aren't included just like BO4 did prior to the loot box crap. It's a great game so far but how this plays out will define its "worth"

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.

Considering all the dlc is meant to be free this doesnt seem to be a big deal. So they are making a bit of money off of those that deem it necessary to buy them. Its not pay to win, purely cosmetic. I dont see the problem myself.

@No_Cartridge

No its not, there is allready a table with all the rewards. And this

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Data miners leak entire first Season Battle Pass for Modern Warfare
By Keshav Bhat - November 27, 2019 42
Well, data miners continue to find new information embedded in the files of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PC.

Now, a user on Reddit has discovered all 100 Tiers for the first ever Battle Pass in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which begins on December 3. Per this leak, the first Season will start at 10AM PT on December 3 and end on January 28 at 10AM PT.

Here’s the tiers and overview:

The two new weapons are part of the free tiers you can earn, alongside earning some COD Points for free as well.

The Battle Pass consists of 81 Paid Tiers and 23 Free Tiers for a total of 104 Tiers, the first 4 of which are granted immediately after purchase. Tier Boosts can be purchased in increments of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100.

2 New Weapons (2 Free / 0 Paid)
1,300 CODPoints (3 Free / 10 Paid)
12 Operator Skins (0 Free / 12 Paid)
20 Blueprints (3 Free / 17 Paid)
and more

>>Pay to win is only if there are better weapons behind it. As u can see 2 free 0 paid<<

And how is it pay to win when the next battle passes are free, by only playing ?

@LemonHaze As I referenced we had the same in BO4 at the start.. Just save yourself the effort and watch a YouTube video about loot boxes, battle passes and alike from infinite warfare onwards... These things all follow a pattern just like BO4 when it all become super aggressive after the xmas sales period... I love the game but why people are in denial and adamant that's not going to be the case is beyond me. Literally every Activision multiplayer title does so including crash team racing which also had "free" content now look at it that. They hook you in on the promise of free only cosmetic paid items... Get great reviews allow people to become accustomed to the ecosystem then hit hard. They make the same promise everytime... This tier will be "crappy emblems, tags and guns"... Next pass that will change.... They made no promises only PR statements that can be taken in multiple ways. You have your opinion. History doesn't show that optimism. Remain optimistic... Power to you.

@LemonHaze P.S we had to play hours daily to have any chance of gaining the "free items" on a 30 day on it's gone deal on BO4.... Universally criticited. Individuals at Level 1000 prestige still didn't have all the guns due to that system. Play and earn a chance at a loot box gun of different quality.

@No_Cartridge

No one force u to buy the battlepass only once for 10 euro. Its the same when u want to buy a new car with standard rims, but u think na i want more luxury rims. So u pay more, its just something personal. I love the game i play only groundwar, 5 days play time. So my 60 euro is allready 10x worth it. To be fair i cant fall over 10 euro. But i understand what u mean because of the past. But at some point u need to let them win some trust. I think they finally learned of it. If they dont they backstab half of the community.

Its good to have a healthy discussion tho, but i dont know if it belongs on pushsquare.

Edit: battlepass is cosmetic based.

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.

@themcnoisy

Cosmetic is cosmetic.
Car,plane,game,scooter,motor etc
Even girls their faces are cosmetic.