Sony, as you know, is the principle marketing partner for the Call of Duty franchise, which means every-so-often Activision must walk a tightrope between not p*ssing off its fanbase while still providing PlayStation with some extras. In the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, it means PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 owners will be the only ones to get access to the new two-player Zombies Onslaught mode.
That’s downright frustrating for fans on other formats, no doubt – but there’s more, and this is where it begins to get a bit embarrassing. If you purchase a Battle Pass on either PlayStation system, you’ll get an additional five tier skips compared to players on other platforms, allowing you to unlock that season’s gear and goodies quicker.
Next, those of you who play in parties on the PS5 or PS4 will earn an additional 25 per cent weapon XP – even if you’re playing alongside cross-platform teammates. And the bonuses don’t end there, because there’ll be exclusive PlayStation Double XP events every month on Sony’s consoles. Oh, and you’ll have an extra two loadout slots to boot.
Some of this stuff reads like it’s really just scraping the bottom of the barrel to us. We understand marketing partnerships are mutually beneficial for both the publisher and the platform holder, but as the industry moves towards unified communities, these bonuses are beginning to look outright embarrassing. Obviously the Zombies Onslaught mode is the big thing here, but the other so-called PlayStation advantages strike us as silly.
[source blog.playstation.com]
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Its simple dont buy cod on xbox or pc cause they get screwed. No reason to support activision at all.
I cringed sooo hard at this
The loadout slots are the ones that got me! I mean... Really?
Boss: you get to leave early today.
Workers: yay!
Boss: 5mins early!
Workers: 😐
Boss: you also get a christmas bonus!
Workers: 😬
Boss: BUY ONE GET ONE FREE COUPON!!..for olive garden
Workers: 🖕😐
It's almost like they're treating their Xbox and PC fanbase like 2nd class citizens, by charging them the same amount for even less content and features...
Shameful!
Edit: I am getting this on my One X as that is my preferred console of choice for multiplatform games. It does sting everytime something like this happens though.
I actually got Avengers for PS4 because of Spiderman, and that was one of the worst games I have ever played. Never falling for this S*^* again!!
I feel the issue hear is Sony clearly wants to maintain the illusion that there platform is the ideal place to play COD but also don't want to be "that company" thats locking out major content to other players. So how do you keep this relationship going but make it worthwhile for your platform?
I feel we all know that no amount of customer backlash is every going to stop this practice, and we all know if the shoe was on the other foot this same conversation would be going on just replace the company name . Im not sure there is a good solution to this at least from a customer stand point anyway . But the artical is right its pretty a pretty weak offering that I don't think Sony is actually making that much off of but at this point if they let it go chances are Microsoft will jump all over it and probaly never let go.
PlayStation will always be the place to play COD ahead of XBOX simply because our XBOX friends can only play cross platform, where as PlayStation can play just against other PlayStation owners. And if you've played the game you'll understand the cheating that goes on in the pc community, for which XBOX can't avoid.
Either Sony has Big Boss levels of persuasive techniques to get developers on their side, or these third parties just love treating Xbox and PC players like children by basically charging full price for a version of the game that will never be complete, or at least not for a long ass time
It was crappy when stuff like this was happening in 7th gen with the 360 and stuff like Ultimate Alliance, and it's crappy now.
Seriously SoulCalibur is still the only series that does console-exclusive content right
That's low. Sony is seriously courting the COD crowd I guess. With the potential for casuals to get the S, they want to make sure casuals know they will enjoy COD more of PS4/5. XP bonuses and extra slots is just plain anti-consumer, though.
Thats why I opted for the cross gen version as the ultimate edition is shocking
@TheFrenchiestFry Oh yeah I be down for that type of exclusivity. For Avengers (let's pretend it was good) we get Spiderman and Xbox gets Deadpool or something. For Cod we get that exclusive mode and Xbox gets a different mode.
@Otherbarry Well they're locking out an entire zombies mode from Xbox and PC(I don't think all zombie modes though).
@Juanalf Yeah like what happened to the days where each console got something exclusive
It was really cool seeing how each version of a game was differentiated in terms of characters or content, and you could still charge full price for all of them because at least they were equal in terms of content volume. Another cool example was MGSV Ground Zeroes where on PlayStation 4 there was the Deja Vu mission with the retro Solid Snake skin while Xbox players got to run around slicing up people as Raiden
@Nepp67 Yeah, it's just the Zombies Onslaught mode that's only available to ps4/ps5 until next November.
I remember when I had to wait a month to play any new maps for multiplayer or zombies back on the PS3. It wasn’t fun, but this is just dumb. Like, who cares about stupid freaking weapon slots, Sony needs to put this money elsewhere.
If you’re still supporting these garbage companies with their annualised carbon copy games, greedy and consumer unfriendly behaviour, then you’re part of the problem.
I thought COD is dead and only one still alive is WWII.... but anyway XP, equip slots that smell like rpg game.
Told people last gen,this third party exculsives and timed exculsives are not good for gaming in general ,and where going to bite us next gen,now this is just the beginning...
It suck for other players not on playstation, but if sony didn't do this, microsoft will, like in the xbox 360 era. The winner of the gen usually get all the good stuff.
As awful as these deals are, it's Sony and MS using their cash to pay for them.
Haven’t played cod since well I don’t even know😂😂😂
I know you can't dictate what other people should buy, play or enjoy, but man it makes me so sad that games like COD, FIFA and the like are so popular and make so much money. It's come to the point where I don't even really consider them as what I define as video games anymore, they feel more like oppressive oil slicks that continue to spread out and poison the industry.
Those extra XP and load out slots are really unfair! As you’ll be able to use them in cross platform games. That’s not right, those all should be limited to PS vs PS online games ONLY.
This is a PlayStation News site??? Or this is a console Page to discuss why the other consoles do not have what comes out for Playstation or the agreements between companies. This is the same as when an exclusive game comes out for one platform or the other. There are games that come out for both consoles but the users of the other platform have to wait and it happens with all the companies not only Activision because they are company agreements so there is no difference. I think that the modes that are exclusive to the platform are temporary and are not a big problem for consumers. If you are in a hurry or it causes problems, then you decide whether to buy the game or not.
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