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Modern Warfare III Xbox Disc Installs as Modern Warfare II
- Thread starter ManaByte
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ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
Selling people the same disc they did last year for $70
Relax, it's a joke, I love TOTK 
Portugeezer
Member
Straight up gangsta.
ManaByte
Gold Member
The PS4 version has a Platinum.
skit_data
Member
Sarcasm aside, the point still stands to some extent because the newer machines should be considered more of a standard by now
diffusionx
Gold Member
yea it’s like they didn’t even try to hide it knowing shills on the Internet will defend them and tons of people will pay full price
Bumblebeetuna
Gold Member
Xbox showing MW2. PS5 asking for MW2 disc. No PS5 platinum.
I’m glad I recently got back into Halo and Titanfall MP, otherwise I might be tempted to support this garbage.
I’m glad I recently got back into Halo and Titanfall MP, otherwise I might be tempted to support this garbage.
skit_data
Member
I don't think they even accounted for people shilling, tbh. CoD is big enough to just move numbers by pure inertia
Cornbread78
Member
It's totally NOT $15 DLC being sold as a brand new game for $70....
Bring on the class action suit
Bring on the class action suit
Lord Malachite
Member
So is Microsoft selling MW3 as one of those old Windows upgrade discs that took your existing OS and made the changes under the hood? Is it really MW3? Or is it more like a MW upgrade disc to convert your version of MW2 into MW3?
SubZero_Wins
Member
Modern Warfare XP.
Unknown Soldier
Member
They knew MS was taking over soon and half of them would be getting laid off so fuck it
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Or..........................................how about they make a new COD game instead of DLC!
Soodanim
Gold Member
I don't share the cynicism on this one.
The disc doing this is evidently not the current intention, but the only thing that proves is that a mistake was made.
That mistake is not necessarily them failing to cover up the conspiracy. Could it not be the case that they were supposed to be working from the MW2 starting point and intended to change everything to MW3 but simply cocked it up?
OP screenshot was so intent on posting that he didn't even follow through to see if it was playable and which game loaded.
The disc doing this is evidently not the current intention, but the only thing that proves is that a mistake was made.
That mistake is not necessarily them failing to cover up the conspiracy. Could it not be the case that they were supposed to be working from the MW2 starting point and intended to change everything to MW3 but simply cocked it up?
OP screenshot was so intent on posting that he didn't even follow through to see if it was playable and which game loaded.
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Barakov
Member
Selling people the same disc they did last year for $70
Why did they even bother releasing a disc?
Puscifer
Member
Seriously, I buy every COD I'm interested in and for the first time I'm legitimately pissed at the offering. This isn't just a "oh this one isn't for me" like Vanguard, this is honestly insulting to charge me 70 dollars for remastered maps and a campaign expansion.
On the other hand, buying these games is the reason they feel like they can get away with it so I guess I have myself to blame, but I'm also not going to support this shit regardless of how good the gunplay is when you're literally giving me shit I played 10 years ago and own in my Steam library
GHound
Member
Shit. This may not be the answer but it's my headcanon going forward. That and I also love the mental image of the people at Sledgehammer just sitting around in a big fuckoff circle talking shit about Bobby "The Breast Milk Bandit" Kotick and wishing they'd actually had more than 16 months to put together their expansion pa- PREMIUM TITLE.
vodka-bull
Member
I always thought retail games must to have a platinum? Wasn‘t that a requirement by Sony?
skit_data
Member
I don't know if they are mandated to have one but in practice almost all of them have, at least from big studios/publishers afaik
vodka-bull
Member
I know some games that are sold only via the PS store don‘t have platinum trophies, or at least used to back in PS3 era.
skit_data
Member
Yeah, there aren't any trophies for The Orange Box on PS3 for example. The trophy system didn't launch until mid 2008 or something
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Typical Microsoft
dotnotbot
Member
Why did they even bother releasing a disc?
It's still nice to have a disc cause you can freely resell it.
SJRB
Gold Member
Is it me or is the entire situation surrounding this game outrageous? DLC content sold at full price, bizarre installers, insanely massive install sizes, worst campaign ever churned out in record time with massive crunch, game disc installing previous versions of the game.
Ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
dreamstation
Member
Blame the morons who keep buying the same shit every year
Goalus
Member
What a shock!
When I bought Outriders Worldslayer on disc, it installed the Outriders base game, and I could unlock the Worldslayer DLC only by entering a code. How can this be!
When I bought Outriders Worldslayer on disc, it installed the Outriders base game, and I could unlock the Worldslayer DLC only by entering a code. How can this be!
Not if MW3 is indeed an included code that needs to be redeemed.
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dotnotbot
Member
Well yes, but it's either a disc or a code and I'm talking about disc.
prinz_valium
Member
lul
Badlucktroll
Member
HoodWinked
Member
completely insane, they have to master the disc anyways so its not even a cost cutting measure its just a complete "i dont give a fuck"
the only explanation is they had this on the docket for the Microsoft acquisition and needed to get it out the door as some kind of fulfillment of the contract.
the only explanation is they had this on the docket for the Microsoft acquisition and needed to get it out the door as some kind of fulfillment of the contract.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
Gold Member
So it seems this new COD release on disc is worse than the previous one and I didn't even know that could happen. At least you can still resell/trade it in, but this shit shouldn't be accepted by platform holders in the first place.
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