6 Video Games Guilty Of Ripping Off Their Player Bases
1. Activision Re-Releases And Adds A Cash Shop To A Nine-Year-Old Game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was released in 2007 to critical acclaim. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was remastered and re-released in 2016 to much frustration.
To begin with, the iconic title was bundled with a much less hotly anticipated sequel. It was eventually sold as a standalone purchase, but then came a second problem: microtransactions. Not only were Activision re-releasing the game at a high price, they were adding DLC and a microtransaction cash shop to what was effectively a nine-year-old game.
According to Sun Tzu's The Art of Modern Warfare, Activision will always try to rip people off – but the brazenness of this attempt shocked even the most jaded consumers.
If you want to advance through Modern Warfare's hectic online modes as your ideal Mary Sue super soldier, expect to be spending extra money on "COD Points" to get all the coolest weapons (including fully automatic shotguns and a Roman gladius sword).
At least the users of other games who spend money designing pretend casinos and flashy apartments can impress people who may or may not be attractive alien princesses in real life too. Modern Warfare: Remastered doesn't even offer this benefit. It's price gouging at its most cynical.