Call of Duty's Squid Game Skins Reignite Monetisation Debate | Push Square
The skin situation in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has reached some kind of boiling point, with players fed up with the high price Activision is asking, as well as the way microtransactions are being handled. The Squid Game event pass itself contains a paid premium track, a money-making endeavour that is proving controversial.
The Squid Game premium bundle (above) costs 2800 CP, or around $24 (thanks, IGN). It includes three operator skins and various other adornments, but the operators themselves are restricted to the Crimson One team, meaning only one side in a match can actually wear the darn things.
Further, and paradoxically, nothing is likely to change because plenty of people are using the premium Squid Game skins, as well as one free to all players. This, in turn, has led to readability complaints, with green jumpsuit-wearing combatants on both sides.
«The game will not end unless the world changes»
Is this just the state of COD and similar titles at this point? Can anything even be done when enough people spend money on this stuff? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
people will buy them. The only way practices change is if it starts affecting the bottom line. Clearly the line keeps going up.
I'm glad I stopped buying COD after MW2022. COD really did peak at MW2019
pop culture/social media = games = cinema
is pretty much all in one now. it’s fortnite’s fault. fortnite brought battle passes, seasons, and really made the skin craze take off
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