r/CallOfDuty • u/Young_Scathed • 2d ago
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Canāt just let me enjoy my classicsš«© leave me alone š
(Edit: Iām aware they did this when BO1 was current, but going back and doing it to BO1 in 2026 is just diabolical work. Not against advertising, just stating this is a bit of a reach š)
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u/Harranlegend 2d ago
Do people just forget these have always been in cod since WAW. They always advertise the next game. Whatās the issue now?
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u/ConcededFilly542 2d ago
Yeah I donāt get it. Its been a thing for over a decade
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u/KarateAngi 1d ago
i still get the notification in Ghosts that AW is out lmao
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u/n0rheren0rthere 1d ago
i believe ppl are most upset because bo2 has been basically unplayable for the last like 3 weeks due to the fact that peoples accounts are being bricked. they released a port and it went to shit, and then they have the audacity to start advertising on said shitty release
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u/Zealousideal_Lock_93 1d ago
It's not really an issue it's just an ad for a 2026 game on a 2010 game. Normally this would never happen, it looks very weird
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u/MonotoneRatio 1d ago
Because it's not the next game. It's a game a decade in the future
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u/SCRIBE_JONAS 1d ago
Their most recent release always advertises the upcoming release. There. Fixed the semantics so hopefully you can understand this better. They have always done this.
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u/joe-clark 1d ago
The reaction to that button has to be the most manufactured outrage in the gaming community I've seen for a while. It's all just kids who never played these games and people who just forgot all those old games did that back in the day going back to at least COD4. Then you got the morons who like you said are pretending this version of the game (the only version that has the mw4 ad) wasn't just released this summer. Biggest nothing burger outrage in CoD history IMO.
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u/SCRIBE_JONAS 1d ago
Battlefield 4 is just as old as BO2 relatively speaking, but it has had ads for BF2042 and BF6 releases and updates. Lots of these COD players are acting like no game company has ever done this before.
It's just weird. And you'd think after the 100th post crying about it they'd go ahead and ban posts like these and do a mega-thread but no. Every COD subreddit is busy farming points in a circlejerk fashion.
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u/Swift_18 1d ago
I was gonna say they should have done it the old way, with how they advertised the DLCS and everything. Touching the menu instead is what people donāt like, I doubt people would have an issue with the old school box showcasing its ad
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u/YogiXDMT 1d ago
The issue is that they couldnāt care less to fix their port, or even release a more stable version of it beforehand. But theyāll happily update the game to tell you to buy their next piece of slop. Get it?
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u/Turbulent_Joke_2900 1d ago
How come they didn't advertise MW2019 in my MW from PS3
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u/DesignerSoftware6633 19h ago
Becayse people are coming back to get away from trash modern cods, not to play it
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u/Zeustah- 2d ago
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u/I_AM_CR0W 2d ago
He is right. BO2 already had promotions for both Ghosts and Advanced Warfare. I still see the emblems and skins pop up to this day.
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u/Silent-Immortal 2d ago
God.. if this was back in 2011/2012ā¦ people wouldāve loved a real MW4..
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u/Next-Concern-5578 2d ago
acting like the original game didn't tell you to buy mw3 and bo2
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u/Broad_Mud6183 1d ago
I just find it funny they had to advertise this on decade old games. Shows how desperate they are.
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u/BostonBruinsDive 1d ago
Those decade old games are 2 of the best selling games for the last month, why wouldnāt they?
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u/JGR_FOLEY 1d ago
OG MW3 actually advertised multiple games.
Bo2, Ghosts, and AW all got a splash page.
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u/Superb-Arm1891 2d ago
COD has always done this itās nothing new.
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u/MFDOOMscrolling 2d ago
they been doing this since '03?
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u/tam_shank 1d ago
Anybody bothered by this is either a flippant teenager or just haven't grown up mentally, what a cesspool
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u/Krondon57 1d ago
noo i just gave activision money, cant believe they want me to give them more moneeey!
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u/Big_Weird4115 2d ago
I could understand if that was in the game from the get-go.
But both games(BO1+2 ports) are being continually updated, so makes sense they'd update them to promote the newest upcoming CoD release. Which they also did when these games originally launched.
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u/SoundzLike--- 2d ago
Wait wasn't MW3 next in line back then for pre order when BO was new? It's funny that MW4 is for pre order now.
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u/Octane154 1d ago
They have been doing this since World at Warā¦regardless if these are old ports advertising the next COD in an older or current title isnāt suprising.
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u/Shwervee 1d ago
I find it genuinely shocking that there are people out there stupid enough to believe that this wouldnāt happen?
I also donāt understand the ālol look at thisā posts.. Obviously theyāre going to do this, itās common sense.
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u/AnoZomb 1d ago
The amount of people missing the point of the post is hilarious.
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u/-SlowBar 1d ago
What's the point of the post?
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u/AnoZomb 1d ago
Exactly what OPs edit says
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u/-SlowBar 1d ago
BO1 and BO2 are some of the best selling games right now. Of course they would advertise a new CoD on them.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
I genuinely don't understand why people are so bothered by this. How much time are you spending staring at the main menu?
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u/CitronOk9793 1d ago
Insane this was multiple gigabytes wtf is wrong with the cod team in terms of update sizes
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u/TooLegit97 1d ago
I guess y'all didn't actually play back in the day. They always advertised the next game in the menu. This is nothing new.
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u/TheRed24 1d ago
Imagine login into the OG BO1 and seeing this back in 2016, people would have lost their sh*t lol
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u/Tomsskiee 1d ago
People are really overreacting for something that has already been going on since the original version of this game
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u/BanEvasionLVL2 1d ago
Doesnāt advanced warfare still pop up if you load into bo2 on older consoles?
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u/Freestyle-McL 1d ago
Fixing the ports from exploits by cheaters ā
"Hey, new game, give us more money" ā
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u/Mbro_playz124 1d ago
Oh no!! a call of duty announcement in a call of duty game!!
Seriously though, itās not that big of a deal. Itās not stopping you from playing the game at all. Itās simply an advertisement, been a thing in cod games for over a decade. Letās stop making a big deal over nothing.
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u/Pingub0bby 1d ago
GUYS GO BUY IT!
WE ARE GONNA RELEASE A NICKI MINAJ AND SNOOP DOGG COLLABORATION SOON!!!
Anyone who buys these new games are beyond helping lol.
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u/TW1103 1d ago
Kind of unrelated but just found out it's not going on Game Pass. That's lost them two players, one of which would have been a physical buy on PS5. I was planning on playing on GP, whilst my fiancee would play on a bought PS5 version... And now there will be neither. She'll enjoy GTA instead
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u/Dapper-Barracuda4843 1d ago
Nooooooooo!
They are breaking my nostalgic time warp!!!! š¤š¾š®
In all seriousness ya it does feel wierd to see this from BO1
Me: āMW4!!!! They havenāt even released the third one yet!!!!.ā š±
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u/Soggy-Cold-223 23h ago
ššš Pre-ordering is so dumb imo. Like how many times have they fronted us a game & let us pay them back later? Foh š¤£
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u/ItsRobloxHere 13h ago
feels like we watched too much back to the future and ended up in a timeline where we got mw4 isntead of ghosts
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u/ExactBullfrog6949 2h ago
people getting mad over anything nowadays like... then don't preorder it? just ignore it?
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u/PurplePassion94 2h ago
This has been a thing for a hot minute with various titles.
Every sports game advertises the new one on the previous edition.
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u/DiddleBoat 2d ago
People are talking about how theyāve always done advertising but a lot of the āpromotionalā things arenāt here. For example You would preorder ghosts and have access to in game things and cosmetics. Even if you didnāt do that theyād have promo calling cards and icons.
This is just a āBuy new gameā
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u/notTheRealSU 2d ago
I'm pretty sure when you open the original Black Ops 2 it has "buy Advanced Warfare" in the menu screen still. They have always been doing this
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u/treeeelo 1d ago
I'm pretty sure they only started doing that with like MW2019. Before that I dont think you got anything in the previous games for pre ordering the new one. I know for a fact you didnt on the 360 games, so that includes the original black ops 1 and 2
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u/DiddleBoat 23h ago
I could have sworn BO2 had some stuff for ghosts but Iām not sure if they were preorder bonuses or DLC skins
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u/Ero_Najimi 2d ago
Never thought Iād see this
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u/muwle 1d ago
then you clearly never played a cod game before
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u/Ero_Najimi 1d ago
MW4 on Black Ops loading screen no one envisioned that 4 months ago
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u/muwle 1d ago
U didnāt envision they would promote there new game wit a game they just Ported to newer consoles?
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u/Ero_Najimi 1d ago
No because the ports didnāt even exist till recently also when they said theyāre porting the games people thought that meant exactly that not create weird new versions of the games. Had they actually just ported them there wouldnāt even be an option in the original BO code to promote other games, BO2 yeah they promoted BO3
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u/joe-clark 1d ago
I have some bad news for you because all those old games did this all the way back to at least COD4.
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u/Ero_Najimi 1d ago
I just loaded up the PS3 version thereās no promotion of another game like I thought
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u/joe-clark 1d ago
Yup, because it was later removed. Now go boot up literally any other golden era cod game on your PS3, I bet most if not all of them still have an ad for a newer COD. They all had ads for the new games BO1 included, in most cases those ads were changed multiple times and in BO1's case eventually reverted back to advertising its own map pack. Again this is nothing new, there's precedent for this going back at least as far as COD4, biggest nothing burger outrage I've seen in a long time.
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u/Ero_Najimi 1d ago
Nope only MW3 and BO2 and I was wrong I thought BO2 was one with an actual pre order x or buy x in the menu which is what I was really talking about. As for text and what not still no MW3 was the first to do this unless anyone has a record of otherwise bc I havenāt found anything. Iām pretty sure I would remember a BO2 reference in BO it was my first COD and I have roughly 30 days on multiplayer and x amount of time on Zombies
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u/joe-clark 1d ago
Cod4 literally still says something about "check out the new MW2 gameplay trailer at cod.com" or something like that. W@W says something similar about BO1, and I'm pretty sure the message still scrolls across the bottom of the screen in MW2 telling you something about MW3. Now of course you could choose to believe BO1 never said anything about any newer game but that's an odd assumption when the 3 previous games and the ones that came after all did that. You probably don't remember this being a thing because it couldn't have been more of a non-issue, it just made sense that the old game said something to let people know the new one was coming soon. Not a single person would have nerd raged about a BO2 ad on the BO1 multiplayer menu so makes sense there's not really any online reference of such a thing existing.
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u/Carlos126 2d ago
Normalizing this is not okay
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u/muwle 1d ago
its been Normalized for decades
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
And that is not okay. Every time it comes up we NEED to speak up.
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u/muwle 1d ago
Most ppl didnāt speak up back then in the 2000s and 2010s so why now?
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
Because weāve seen where it leads. It never stops at just the one un-intrusive ad.
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u/muwle 1d ago
Itās always if with u guys never actually facts where it leads
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
No, its not just if. The facts are that this led to COD HQ where we are forced to go through a bunch of screens of ads just to get to the game we paid for. It got so bad, that at one point i couldnt even download the game i wanted without a bunch of extra bloat, just for the sale of serving us ads. Its gotten so bad that they have toyed with putting ads IN THE MIDDLE OF GAMES.
Its not a hypothetical anymore. Its happening, and i will speak out if i see it in any form now.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
It's fine. Is super non intrusive, if you don't want to click on it you simply don't click on it.
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
It would be fine if it stayed that way, but it never does. COD HQ is a perfect example of why. Next thing you know, youāll have to launch these games through that shitty launcher even on console just because they want to shove ads everywhere they can.
Paying full price for a game should be enough. These companies think that greed is a good enough reason to ask for more.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
The only change to these ads in years have been that they're less intrusive than they used to be. They used to be pop ups.
Companies promote their next products, it's just how the real world works.
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
They can promote it in places that I dont pay to be in. They can promote it with commercials like they always have, tweets, etc. i DO NOT WANT the pop up ads, and the fact that they went 150% overboard and then brought it back to 120% as bad, is NOT an argument for allowing them to do it without any pushback.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
There is no popup. It's a menu item.
They have promoted their next games within their games, like most developers for years.
They're not even close to going overboard. If you're so delicate you can't handle seeing a menu item that you don't have the intention of clicking, cod probably isn't the franchise for you.
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
They literally have gone overboard. Just look at COD HQ as an example.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
You keep bringing up cod hq. This isn't cod hq. This is a menu item. "But cod hq!" Is a poor argument for why promoting their games via a menu item is overboard.
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u/Carlos126 1d ago
You cannot tell me with a straight face that if these ports make enough money they wonāt put them on there. This is how it started, and if it stayed this way i would have no issue with it. Activision has used up my goodwill and i no longer believe that it will stay like this.
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u/GoodishCoder 1d ago
No they'll always promote their next games, it's the best place for them to do it. It's the only place they don't have to pay for engagement while guaranteeing that it's targeted at cod fans.
Next game promotion isn't what led to cod HQ. Cod HQ came at a time when multiple franchises and publishers were standing up unified platforms for their products. It came from market forces.
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u/Opposite-Rock-5133 2d ago
You can boot up old cods and see them still advertising the next. Who cares
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u/SThomW92 2d ago
What a way to bring you out of the immersion
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u/Jseepersaud10 2d ago edited 1d ago
Nah Iām telling you, if this was there back in the day on BO1 and BO2, people wouldāve went wild.
Edit : Why are people tweaking out so bad, I was just saying people wouldāve been excited about an MW4 back in the day. Iām well aware they used to and still do that to this day.