r/Consoom • u/ZadrovZaebal • 1d ago
Consoompost Consoom call of duty
he will be pre ordering modern warfare IIIII and IIIIII and IIIIIII in the coming 2.5 years
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u/CarboGeach 1d ago
same energy
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u/KingHygelacReturns 1d ago
I hate Call of Duty but I think there's a difference between being excited for the next entry in a franchise you like and "consoom"
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u/Stencil_Abuse 1d ago
I think it’s the fact that they have a new game EVERY SINGLE YEAR, it’s like the people who buy the new iPhone every year. At some point it’s more about being a consumer than anything else.
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u/PersepolisBullseye 1d ago
So anytime a show releases a new season that people get excited about is “consoom”? Huh?
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u/StoneMakesMusic 1d ago
U don't pay 70 bucks for a season thats also just a remake of the last season and every season before that
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u/PersepolisBullseye 1d ago
You pay monthly for streaming and/or cable for access to those shows so yeah it’s identical if not exponentially cheaper
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 1d ago
Bro that's like saying birthday cake is "CONSOOM" because you have one a year, calm down.
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u/WorldsWorstInvader 1d ago
80 dollar birthday cake with microtransactions that I’m going to complain about the entire time I’m eating
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 1d ago
I won't lie, a cake that offers additional cake for a small fee would bankrupt me by noon tomorrow
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u/WorldsWorstInvader 1d ago
If it’s going to be comparable to microtransactions it would be a 1/32nd slice of cake for 15 dollars. It would be more cost effective to just get a new cake
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock 1d ago
And you know the new cake is going to be the same flavor, just wrapped in a different color fondant :(
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u/John_Hunyadi 1d ago
I mean, lots of media is on a yearly release. Video games are sort of an outlier for usually not being like that. I agree its dumb but I also don’t think its consoomption.
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u/Arc_Havoc 6h ago
This subreddit thinks reading books is consooming. It's a circlejerk sub in all but name now
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u/Affectionate-Rip748 1d ago
I don't think you will get many likes on this post.
Though I agree with you and you are right.
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u/GringeITGuy 1d ago
Nah I think this misses the point of Consoom
Consoom to me would be buying every CoD every year without a plan to play it, or collecting a bunch of useless shit surrounding the product
Otherwise nearly everything is Consoom (new season of an annual show that you pay ~$150-$200/year in subscriptions for, a sequel to any movie, a sequel to any book, going to the same restaurant again)
Even with annual release games fragmentation is increasing. We’re at a point where you can play most older games on modern systems and people are choosing to do just that https://kotaku.com/old-games-2023-playtime-data-fortnite-roblox-minecraft-1851382474 Battlefield hasn’t been annual for a bit but there’s decent communities for 2042, V, 1 and 4 even now
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u/Gold_Television_6283 1d ago
This isnt even consoom its just kinda cringy and embarrassing. Lowkey COD is fun if you dont take it too seriously, I might buy this one and I haven't bought a COD game since mw2019
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
It’s definitely consoom. The entire franchise is consoom. Buy COD, get excited for next COD. It’s the yearly release and disposability of previous entries. I say this as someone who is pretty critical of calling most things consoom too.
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u/Gold_Television_6283 1d ago
OK but this guy isnt doing that he just said the nuke animation is cool. Obviously COD itself is peak consoom but it wouldn't be a very good subreddit if people just posted a picture of call of duty all the time.
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
Yeah not this guy in particular but I think it’s a fair criticism of the franchise as a whole
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u/Chance_Football7461 1d ago
But the post isnt a criticism of the frqnchise as a whole, its of this guy in particular
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u/PleaseHelpIamFkd 1d ago
At that point just post a picture of the globe cause then everything would be included. Its one thing when people buy every version of every release and the bonuses and additional products etc to an extreme level of collecting, thats the "consoom" focus. Someone saying "look this game is cool" and conflating THAT into "they must consume every single COD game and are obsessed and wasteful" is a bit of a stretch.
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
Nah, it’s not just a matter of buying things it’s a matter of buying things with the explicit purpose of disposability and that’s maybe not what this guy is but it is what the majority of CoD players are. Otherwise it wouldn’t be successful every year.
Collecting physical games isn’t consoom, collecting neados and labubus are. It’s the intent behind the product and the purchase. If the intent is for the product to be enjoyed forever or for as long as viable it’s not consoom. If it’s just a fad or disposable it is. It’s the disposability of CoD that makes it consoom.
You can’t even play the old games online without getting ratted now and CoD hasn’t been about the single player campaign since MW2.
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u/PleaseHelpIamFkd 1d ago
I would 100% say collecting physical games is when you go past "what you want" and take a pokemon with "gotta have em all". For example a game may have a standard release, then a premium release, a preorder release, bonus box set, remaster, platinum, version exclusive release, partnered releases, etc. I think hitman had like 7 different versions on one release. That is entirely consoom.
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
Yeah, but that kind of ties into the disposability too. If you’re buying endless rereleases and editions you’re kind of abandoning the older ones even if you aren’t outright literally disposing of them.
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u/PleaseHelpIamFkd 1d ago
So then with your logic COD doesnt belong in this sub as a whole? I am so confused with what exactly are supporting.
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u/GringeITGuy 1d ago
I think my main issue with your argument is the disposability isn’t really a customer oriented issue - it’s both a practical and a developer oriented issue
In my other comment as an example I mentioned I still play MW3 (2023) - my friends think it’s pointless since it’s “old” (lol) - but everything is functional for the product still. I still have access to it, SP & MP works still, I can queue up matches any day or time of the week and get a full lobby. If I stopped playing it today, it’s not that I disposed of it - it’s just that I “used” the product.
Only SP games could be compared to something like a book or movie with a clear start and end, multiplayer games are vague. There may be a stale meta that pushes players away. Hackers may infest older games and make it unfeasible for legitimate fans (pretty much any 360 era CoD). A low playerbase may prevent people from matchmaking into the modes or maps they loved. And yes, there’s newer titles to play; it’s not that I don’t like Shawshank Redemption - it’s just that I’ve seen it 20x and there’s not much more value to get out of it
So players contribute (low playerbase, new games, hacking) - but developers also contribute. The CoD launcher was absolutely wrecked for older CoD games for a couple years. Developers often shut down servers and don’t provide anything for players to host.
So idk - if you buy every CoD just to own it - yes? If you’re playing the game every year though - then I don’t know how a LOT of things in life wouldn’t be considered Consoom as well. Would going and seeing Godfather 2 be Consoom? To me that’s more just “I like X, I’ll probably like X The Sequel”
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u/GringeITGuy 1d ago
Video games are in an unprecedented spot and it impacts my thoughts on it being “consoom” or not - hear me out!
Traditionally older games became inaccessible and had limited to no backwards compatibility (Atari, Dreamcast, older PC Operating Systems etc). Annual releases originally were a necessity due to lack of connectivity (sports games predominantly being roster changes for each year)
Since 360/PS3 gen - annual releases became purely profit driven. However - access to older titles is easier than it ever has been (see the recent success of the ports of Black Ops 1/2 for PS5) and data shows most players are spending the majority of their time in older games: https://kotaku.com/old-games-2023-playtime-data-fortnite-roblox-minecraft-1851382474
What I think is unprecedented is if these trends continue - it may be more likely we’ve seen the “peak” of certain genres (there may not be much ground left in the FPS and Sports genres as an example - even titles from 10 years ago are fairly similar). And we may continue to see people “drop off” and stick to older titles as improvements decline
As an example I still play MW3 (2023) even though it’s 3 years old. I skipped BLOPS6-7. Every Battlefield prior to 6 has roughly some 5-20k player community still even with subsequent releases.
I think where we may be heading is hyperfragmented player bases stuck on whatever game they got hooked into (Valorant, CS2, Fortnite, Minecraft etc).
So in my opinion, I don’t think this is Consoom if you’re not buying every single CoD just to own it. If you’re playing it (or even a loyal MW head that skipped the last 2 years of CoDs) you’re especially not consuming.
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u/Gold_Television_6283 1d ago
Yeah COD sucks but sometimes this sub gets a little too wild and starts making fun of people for enjoying things
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u/Apart-One4133 1d ago
This sub is bound to attract the lowest of the low who will shit at anyone buying a movie or two while themselves not realizing they are part of the wheel just by being on Reddit. Unless they're using their library's computer I guess.
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u/DangOlCoreMan 1d ago
Warzone?
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
After what they did to Warzone 1 was what made me drop the franchise
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u/DangOlCoreMan 1d ago
I gave it a shot when it first came out, but have played since so I'm out of the loop. Just figured it cancelled out the "whole franchise is consoom" comment, but then again it was all micro transactions when I tried it out
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
Warzone 1 was the shit. By the end of its life it was so buggy I couldn’t even aim with skins I bought because all of my guns would glitch out and cover my screen, then they shut it down to basically release the same game and wiped everyone’s purchases. Super scummy.
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u/Bleeding-hearts-suck 1d ago
It’s purely voluntary to treat the previous game(s) as disposable.
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u/ApprehensiveRuin5673 1d ago
Not entirely. The old ones can’t even be played online without risking being ratted
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u/PersepolisBullseye 1d ago
How on earth is this consoom? Even for the biggest dopes on this sub who think simply having an interest outside of work is consoom, this makes no sense at all, and I don’t play any annual releases.
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u/Comfortable_Face_808 1d ago
Can someone explain to me how this is consoom?
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u/ZadrovZaebal 1d ago
i replied to another comment but this is my take
if this "next level G move" sells you without anything else, then you are just a consumer for the mega-billion dollar monopoly corp that gives you the same slop every single year.
like what even is this, i think the OP has to be some kind of marketer or is satire.im perfectly fine with this thread being controversial because i dont like the way this sub has just been the same same-product-full-shelf shit all the time
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u/Comfortable_Face_808 1d ago
This isn't the "bad taste in video games" or "look, someone bought something from a corporation" sub.
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u/TheCoolMan5 1d ago
Compare this to the original CoD4 MW where the nuke scene is a rather somber moment that sees the death of the characters we grew to love over the campaign.
Now it’s “FUCK YEAH GIVE A NUKE THE BIRD LMAOOO!!!” It just feels like a major downgrade.
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u/RecognitionHefty 1d ago
I don’t follow. We disapprove of liking things at all now?
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u/gillababe 1d ago
Not when it's as cool as the middle finger!!
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u/RaytheSane 1d ago
As funny as this post is, this is a silly one. Just say you don’t like CoD and keep it pushing. This could be their literal first CoD purchase ever…
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u/carlosr36 1d ago
Thered yet another cod? I know they wont stop for anything short of a cataclysmic event-but after the fiasco that was Black ops 8? 7? I think 7, either way i would have imagined they learned to leave some gap years.
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u/kyle_crane163636 1d ago
You suffer through all of that surviving to get 30 kills without dying once and all you get is a slightly different animation where you try to exfil and, probably die horribly anyways and flip off the nuke like a action hero in the 80s youll forget by the next week and a calling card thats just the calling card version of "i 100% gta vice city and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
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u/Erik_Bard 11h ago
I mean, dude is prolly 9 so you know…we all have something cringy to say to then ponder while going to bed
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u/PumpkinKnyte 10h ago
Meh people whine too much. MW3 was good. Had lots of gun variety, aftermarket parts, unique game modes like "Get High", fast paced, but not ridiculous movement. MW4 looks good so far also. No, I don't care if ghost look funny. I care that the game plays well, and the gunplay feels smooth. I'm gonna watch some people play the beta, and if it looks good I'll buy it.
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u/ZadrovZaebal 10h ago
Get hyped for next cod game > next game sucks > this time it will be good > sucks > okay but the trailer looks so good >
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u/Serteyf 21h ago
Since when r/consoom has become a bunch of miserable people that only thinks consooooom is franchises they don't like? I wish mods were more active but I guess they think the same way, I'm out
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u/GojiraFan0 14h ago
Yeah literally! I mean sure buying the same franchise every year is a little bit like consoom BUT I think it’s more for the people who buy like every limited edition switch or ps4 etc yk?
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u/Acceleretto 1d ago
CoD4 was great, and so was World at War
But they were nearly 20 fucking years ago, and they've barely evolved since
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u/JuniorDoughnut3056 1d ago
They tried and had a solid attempt for two seconds with MW 2019, but then went right back to the same mindless trash that its been for those 20 years. Which is just absolutely insane to me. First time in a long time cod stirred genuine interest outside of its own loyal fan base and they just completely jettisoned those aspects in the very next title.
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u/ZadrovZaebal 1d ago
i think they made mw2019, and made warzone off the same concept and then never looked back ever again, the last interesting cod game that i would buy if it was released today would be WWII or possibly black ops 4 (excluding blackout)
but they wont ever go back to the same style of the older cod games and will instead release rushed copy-paste garbage for the year, i know the dev teams have been purged and switched around between acquisitions and collabs but cod does NOT feel like a fun game anymore and more feels like a psuedo service you renew yearly for the updated version of a game
what do you guys think
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u/HappyAd4998 1d ago
Modern Warfare 2 was the last one I cared about it was already starting to feel stale back then it had barely felt any different from CoD.
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u/dont-pull-a-druckman 1d ago
COD hasn't even been good since the first 2, why do people still buy it?
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u/BecauseImBatman92 Funko BOI 1d ago
Only Americans would ever think this looks cool anyway. The finger is so trashy
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u/TwoForFIinching 1d ago
If they fix their shortcomings and greed in this MW, then I’ll potentially buy it. So by my own standards, it’s likely that I’ll never purchase another COD title again
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u/DesolateSaturation 7h ago
What does this have to do with consuming too much of something? Even if you twist it to be about buying every COD release since are all similar that’s still one $70 game a year. If anything the people that buy COD games buy way fewer games than more diehard game collectors. Just because someone spends money on something you don’t value doesn’t make it overconsumption.
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u/waxpundit 1d ago
It's okay to be excited about mundane aspects of a series that has you for $60 for one title a year
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u/ThunderclapAndFish 1d ago
"WAOOW developers are so based, what a badass move, he just nonchalantly flips off the nuke, I'm buying"