you know, i quite like blops iiii. its not free of issues but it is fun and nice to look at. but honestly i'm getting pretty sick of it.
i have given up on blackout, primarily since treyarch's solution to the matchmaking issue in south africa is to limit us to only playing the featured playlist mode. when it is quads and you're on the xbox one, it is unplayable due to poor performance and when it is solos then people team up anyway. i've read that people in other places like south america have the same restrictions. shows how little treyarch cares about players outside of the us and europe.
zombies are good but i cant play it for more than an hour or so without it getting very tedious and repetitive.
again we are back to mp. so here is where i;ve been spending most of my time and where i have a few issues lately. firstly are the microtransactions and tier system. they are charging an obscene amount of money for items and tiers. and grinding tiers through playtime is not fun. it takes soooooo long and in 90% of cases the item is not worth the time. for example, the new season has new weapons at tiers 25, 50 and 100. i'm sorry but having to play around 25 hours just to get a seasonal pickaxe that functions the same as the existing knife is really not worth it. i could finish around 5 other single player games in the same time.
also for comparison sake, when cod ww2 still had orders to get new weapons, you would typically have to complete 35-50 games in order to get a brand new weapon. depending on the mode, on average it would take about 1 hour for 5 matches so then 50 games would be 5 hours. in blops iiii it takes 5 times longer! so just for a pickaxe i need to play over 200 matches of tdm... f**k no! this ties into my second issue that i've mentioned before, matchmaking.
being in south africa, i'm still only allowed to connect to local games hosted by players. we have no mp servers and unlike cod ww2, the game refuses to matchmake to places like the europe and middle east. so what happens is everyone just ends up playing tdm on core and nothing else. i would love to play some ffa, gungame, heist or even s&d but no. so even if they did add some game modes that i've been wishing for like prop hunt, mike myers or infected, it has become clear that i wont be able to play those game modes.
i'm sick of tdm and the bad spawns. you end up grinding for days of playtime in order to get some crappy items and that kills the enjoyment of the game. no longer do you just hop on for an hour or so to play a few games and have fun, now you GRIND the game like a chore for stickers, emotes, camos and other worthless crap.
my third issue is with the playstation exclusivity. as i;ve said before, i'm on xbox. consoles are expensive here and i prefer xbox mainly because of backwards compatibility. because of the playstation exclusivity agreement, i have to wait a whole week after playstation gets it in order to get new content for blops iiii. i know it is not a long time to wait but it is still a slap in the face every time. especially when you know you get to update your game with the same content as the playstation users but treyarch purposefully chooses not to flip the switch to enable it until a week later.
my fourth issue is about the changes to the game, or lack thereof. so first they nerf scorestreaks by making them cost more score. then they leave overpowered specialist abilities like prophet's tempest and seeker, nomad's dog and ajax's shield and 9 bang alone and even buff the purifier. you can die so easily without the enemy player hardly lifting a finger, ruining your streak. now they release a new specialist that can destroy and/or take over your hard earned streaks just by being in the game for a few minutes. the assault and sniper rifles need proper nerfs, bunny jumping needs a nerf, the grenades need a buff, theater mode needs to be fixed, blackout needs more content updates, we need bigger maps in mp, we need a no specialist playlist, no proper combat record or leaderboards and the game still requires quite a few stability fixes. none of these have been properly addressed (if at all) by treyarch in over 3 months. but sure as hell we get new microtransaction content every week without fault :( they also recently tried to "shame" players who did not purchase the black ops pass by putting a yellow nad black warning icon next to their name in lobbies, letting everyone else know this guy does not have the new maps that the black ops pass owners would want to play. thankfully this was promptly removed but what a scummy tactic to try and shame/bully people into buying the season pass.
blops iiii does not reward you for playing the game well, it demands you grind for limited time items for days on end and spits in your face with cheap deaths, worthless scorestreaks, expensive cosmetics, noob participation trophies and by forcing you to wait for content while your favorite youtuber has been playing with it for a week already. as a customer and long time fan, it just makes me sad that activision and treyarch's message to me is "buy cod points, buy a playstation, buy the black ops pass, move to a first world country and even then we still don't give a sh*t about you hahahaha, thanks for your money lol"
