Call of Duty Warzone Players Are Complaining About the Introduction of ‘Pay to Win’ Content
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare 2 Season 3 have been released, introducing quite a few cosmetics and a new Battle Pass. However, some of the update’s paid cosmetics give players an advantage in his DMZ mode in Warzone, which some fans aren’t happy with.
On April 12th, Activision introduced a new cosmetic bundle for Warzone 2.0. What Activision called a “DMZ boost,” the game’s new $12 Bomb Squad bundle gives players Fender skins, SAKIN MG38 LMG blueprints, active duty slots, stickers, and emblems.
but, PC gamer As pointed out, the boost this bundle provides in the game’s extraction mode, the DMZ, is very valuable. Players with the Fender skin are given a medium backpack, and the LMG has a much shorter cooldown than the free guns.
Fans have taken to Twitter to express their disappointment that the game has become a “pay-to-win” due to the benefits this paid bundle offers.
They’ve added a Pay To Win bundle to the DMZ. This will give you access to the 4th operator slot. Using the operator skin in the bundle gives you a PERMANENT medium bag and a blueprint with another short 15 minute cooldown.
This is wrong and completely tone deaf.pic.twitter.com/vCgO3aovh4
— Westie (@MrProWestie) April 12, 2023
Several bundles were added in Season 03 to allow players to profit from the DMZ, effectively making the DMZ a pay-to-win experience. Activision should completely rethink and stop trying to generate sales based on P2W mechanisms. This is very similar to rock… pic.twitter.com/FLhybnN9X7
— Charlie Intel (@charlieINTEL) April 13, 2023
Warzone 2.0’s extraction mode, DMZ, is still in beta, but it looks like Activision may stick to this model for the foreseeable future. Reddit Dataminethere may be more bundles that offer DMZ benefits.
We gave Warzone 2.0 an 8 in our review, calling it “a positive update to Call of Duty’s battle royale mode, even if it has some flaws of its own.” In January, Microsoft announced it was “confident” it could bring Call of Duty to the Nintendo Switch, but Sony expressed concern about Xbox sabotaging the franchise’s performance on the PlayStation.
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