A thousand-dollar-plus Call of Duty <\/em>Franchise Collection remains a contentious point of discussion among new and old fans of the series alike, especially given previous titles are likely to arrive on Xbox Game Pass for a fraction of the price.<\/p>
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Activision has combined almost every published CoD<\/a><\/em> title in one easy-to-buy bundle for PC players on Steam\u2014from the origin story of 2003’s Call of Duty<\/em> right through to 2017’s CoD: WW2<\/em> and CoD: Modern Warfare Remastered<\/em>. Assuming you haven’t bought any copy of one of these CoD<\/em> games before, this packaged bundle<\/a> will set you back a cool $962.60 USD\u2014but fans aren’t sold.<\/p>
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Even worse, as it’s a bundle it receives a Steam-wide 10 percent discount, meaning some of the games are in the store at full price despite releasing over a decade ago. “They are still selling a 12-year-old game with no servers at the full $60 price,” one player said in a May 27 Reddit post<\/a> focused around the sale. “They didn’t even do any special pricing, and literally\u00a0none\u00a0of their games are on sale\u2014it’s bad,” another said.<\/p>
Others chimed in, adding many of the popular CoD<\/em> titles like 2009’s MW2<\/em> still had servers running but most had been taken over by bots or undesirables wanting to infect the player’s PC should they join a lobby. Activision had even brought servers down for a few days in 2023<\/a> to clear up the issue, but it’s believed hackers returned with a vengeance.<\/p>
The bundle’s true intentions are for diehard CoD<\/em> fans who own a few of the games already to complete their collections with every game and DLC, but given parts of CoD<\/em>‘s collection are likely coming to the Game Pass subscription<\/a> for a fraction of the price, many can’t see the value in the Steam bundle. “If you buy most of these games on console, it’s so cheap. A used copy of CoD<\/em>: World At War<\/em> is $5, [but] $60? Fuck out of here.”<\/p>
Perhaps this one might be worth it if given a larger discount, but it’s clear players aren’t going near the classic CoD<\/em> titles on Steam\u2014and should these games make it to Game Pass soon<\/a>, it seems a complete waste of money anyway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
