Call of Duty’s huge new Season 4 replace added plenty of new content material to the sport, together with a controversial new UI function that displayed in-game advertisements for paid DLC bundles from the weapons menu. The thought, many thought, was that Activision was intrusively attempting to push microtransactions on gamers in a brand new manner.
Now, Activision has disabled this and claimed it was solely a “check” that was added to the sport accidentally. Followers aren’t shopping for that rationalization, nevertheless.
“A UI function check that surfaced choose retailer content material within the Loadout menus was revealed within the Season 04 replace in error. This function has now been faraway from the dwell recreation,” Activision said.
The replies to Activision’s put up are full of individuals claiming Activision is gaslighting followers and providing a poor excuse for what occurred. Some individuals replied to say the brand new UI function was useful to them, because it surfaced a selected weapon or bundle that they may have in any other case by no means seen.
In any occasion, the function is now gone, however its elimination is not more likely to do a lot to quell the issues of some that Call of Obligation is pushing microtransactions on gamers. The sport recurrently highlights paid DLC bundles that gamers can spend cash on to accumulate new operators, weapons, and different objects. It is a pretty frequent follow for a lot of on-line multiplayer video games.
Call of Duty’s latest retailer bundle brings Ana de Armas’ character from the John Wick film Ballerina to the sport, and it launches right this moment.
For extra, try GameSpot’s rundown of all the brand new maps and weapons within the Season 4 replace, together with our breakdown of what is within the new battle go. The Zombies mode, in the meantime, will get a giant replace with the introduction of Grief mode. There are quite a few new updates for Warzone, too.