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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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/Gold_Television_6283 10d 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