News - Warzone 2 Zombies Exposes A Big Problem With Free Dlc. Explained (a Nuanced Discussion)
In this article, I want to talk about season 2 reloaded for Modern Warfare 3 zombies. I want to talk about this more from a news perspective and more from an opinion perspective. The thing I want to talk about in this article is that there has been a big debate in the community ever since Zombies DLC moved to being free within Cold War zombies, and the entire time I've been totally in barded with free DLC.
I think that Black Ops Cold War had solid post-launch support. There were droughts, especially between Fire Basin C and Mar Toen. Although the outbreak got content, of course, for those who just wanted round base, there wasn't really much for you. However. I really strongly believe that Cold War zombies would have pretty much gotten the exact same amount and caliber of support regardless of whether the DLC would have been free or whether it would have been paid, and I also think it's just good that the DLC is free now because it opens up the zombie community to a much wider player base.
It's so much of the reason as to why multiplayer fans, and especially War Zing fans, considering that's free, are jumping over and trying out zombies now to level up weapons, etc., and I think if there was a price tag locking in that content, they wouldn't be jumping in. However, there is a caveat with paid DLC, and so far I haven't really been too on board with this, but as you see within the trailer that we've gotten for this season's reloaded update, it's all branded as free content, and I think the reason why they're especially marketing it in this way is because, well, of course, they want people to know it's free so they don't have to pay it, and you're more inclined to try it out if it's free and at least give it a shot, and that seems to be the general consensus for this update.
I think that a lot of people will try it out; they'll do the new story mission to get the new Cuts scene, which should be good, but then they'll probably not really touch it again. After that, people might just use the mode to just continue leveling up weapons and, you know, grinding out camos if that's what you do, but if you're not interested in that, like I said.
I think most fans are just going to try out the new story mission and then go back to waiting for COD 2024. Zombies, but I think the free content update allows them to basically have the excuse as since so many people are critical of this update having so little content you know it basically tells the fans you know you can't really be mad it's free you can just hop in and try it regardless, and BAS basically just being entitled if you're criticizing or complaining, can't criticize it in the same way as if it is a paid for experience and yes that is true but at the same time Modern Warfare 3 in general is a paid for experience I really think Modern Warfare 3 zombies should have been free to play.
I think it's the perfect mode to be free to play like DMZ, and I think it probably would have been free to play if DMZ was more successful, since it was free to play and then they started adding in pay for Advantage bundles, which seems to suggest it wasn't profiting enough, and that's another point that I want to mention is that Activision are making way more money now via the bundles and the battle passes and the microtransactions than they ever have before, way more money than they would if they were selling this content as DLC.
Packs, you can argue, you're just being entitled since it's free content and nothing is better than anything. They're doing it for free, but they're not really doing it for free because they are still profiting in the form of microtransactions. More people are playing the game; more people are inclined to buy bundles and battle passes, etc., whereas they're not inclined if the updates are mediocre.
So it's really only hurting them in that sense, but yeah, they have the budget to have good updates, of course, recently. Microsoft unfortunately fires a load of employees and stuff like that, but they are profiting massively. Activision's revenue is up this year, as is Microsoft's, and yet they are still laying people off.
It seems like a lot of developers have moved on to C 2024, zombies, but they definitely are making the revenue to supplement the support for this content, so most likely Modern Warfare 3 zombies is not doing as successful as needed, and also C 2024 zombies needs more work and they need all hands on deck there, and I am still totally in favor of free DLC.
I think DLC should be free; however, I just think about the way Activision handles it. Zombies is largely affected by the fact that this DLC is free because, back in the day, when we had a season pass, we were guaranteed DLC maps as a part of the terms and conditions for that. You know, yes, the quality of those could still be low, but the thing is, you could also buy these DLC maps individually.
War Zone is free, but that is it. If you are still paying for the paid-for experience, it doesn't make a difference to you, so they're trying to basically do both formulas, the free-to-play formula as well as the paid-for formula simultaneously, and if you just play War Zone fair enough, it's basically a similar system to Fortnite, but if you're also paying, then it's a completely different system because they're doing the free-to-play model and the paid-for model simultaneously.
Like I said, they changed in Black Ops 4, and they had the Black Ops pass, and basically, this meant you couldn't buy the DLC maps individually or the map packs individually. You could only buy all of it or nothing and this meant that as soon as people locked in their sales especially because people just bought the Black Ops pass before the game even came out because they got access to classified for example, as soon as you had pay for that it didn't matter about the rest of the content being good because it wouldn't affect the sales and I think that's probably what happened to the latter end of Black Ops 4's life cycle a lot of the post- launch content got strapped because they apparently wanted to do a second season past the following year we were supposed to get more chaos and ether maps and then Alpha Omega and tag to and whilst I think they were always plann to be remakes it was definitely affected by a lack of budget, course we got the animated cut scenes things just ended very poorly with that game whilst I think the actual ending cut scene itself at least story-wise, and thematically, was the most fitting conclusion they could do to The Ether story, definitely a lack of budget affected that and I wonder if we didn't have the Black Ops pass and if you could buy these Maps individually.
