10 WORST Cash Grab Attempts By Activision
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Activision and Blizzard have made some aggressive moves to make you part with your hard earned cash. Here are some of the biggest consumer-unfriendly examples.
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10. The Dawning Gear - Destiny 2
ref: www.destructoid.com/stories/bungie-s-latest-destiny-2-event-is-pure-greed-even-by-low-loot-box-standards-478831.phtml
ref: www.polygon.com/2017/12/22/16811582/destiny-2-the-dawning-holiday-loot-box-community-outrage
ref: www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/7l5k38/wait_hold_up_why_is_this_dawning_gear_so_dope/
9. Call of Duty WW2: Nazi Zombies - The Tortured Path
ref: callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tortured_Path
ref: www.reddit.com/r/WWII/comments/95cjr3/salty_rant_the_tortured_path_easily_the_worst_map/
8. The Demo - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
ref: www.standard.co.uk/tech/gaming/tony-hawks-pro-skater-remaster-demo-a4480106.html
7. The Summer games event - Overwatch
ref: www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2016/08/19/did-blizzard-break-a-promise-with-the-overwatch-summer-games/?sh=44cee9e53136
6. - Skylanders
ref: www.binderbits.com/blog-1/2015/10/6/the-toy-to-life-craze-an-easy-cash-grab
ref: www.bostonherald.com/2014/10/26/its-a-good-thing-skylanders-is-fun-because-its-not-cheap/
ref: www.polygon.com/2014/4/16/5614716/skylanders-story-toys-for-bob-skylanders-swap-force
5. The Simpsons Wrestling -
ref: www.metacritic.com/game/playstation/the-simpsons-wrestling
4. Modern Warfare Remastered - Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
ref: www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/04/23/its-time-for-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-remastered-to-be-free-from-infinite-warfare/?sh=748aca4f7a17
3. The Tony Hawk Ride skateboard
ref: www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/tony-hawk-ride
ref: www.destructoid.com/stories/review-tony-hawk-ride-156837.phtml
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - K/D Tracker
ref: www.alphr.com/how-to-check-your-k-d-radio-modern-warfare/
1. The Variety Map Pack - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered
ref: dispatches.cheatcc.com/2836
BONUS
-Crash Team racing sneaking in microtransactions (mentioned this in the 'things activision wants you to forget' video)
ref: www.destructoid.com/stories/activision-s-post-launch-microtransactions-are-the-peak-of-anti-consumer-practices-562857.phtml
-Warcraft 3: Reforged -
ref: arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/warcraft-iii-reforged-tops-our-list-of-2020s-most-disappointing-video-games/
Kommentarer
I grew up on sky landers.... I’m fricking mad you insulted it like that by calling it cheap plastic
My friends and I were all high level masters in bo4 and would occasionally pick up a few new people off lfg and if they had the dlc maps we kicked them lol, worst maps in the whole game.
Activision don’t care about their fans
Warcraft 3? You mean Dota 1 ?
Activison takes your money. Price is not amused.
I really thank HACK_LORD11 on Instagram for retrieving my account for me and my friend the guy is damn good fams
Sorry but the worst thing Activision did was kick out hundrets of employes while make records amounts of mony and pay ther billionär ceo over 200millions as bonus.
Have they never played MW? You don't need the watch to look at your KD in game.
Someone forgot CODM
Falcon: SkYlanDerS WaS ChASh GrAb Me: So you have chosen, dislike button
Don’t forget they’re going to SELL YOU BACK THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS OF THEIR GAMES THAT YOU PURCHASED AFTER “UPDATING” THE SWEET F OUT OF THEM UNTIL THEY HAVE SUCKED ALL FUN AND NEARLY LOST THEIR ENTIRE PLAYERBASE. Don’t forget that they’ll screw their games up over time; you don’t buy a game from them; you buy the idea of a game and have that game progressively destroyed over the course of its lifetime, until eventually they ATTEMPT to RESELL YOU the original version you originally payed for.
2:07 uhhh....
i feel like a idiot for buying that watch
"Sometimes"
Will you make a "Best Cash Grab Attempts" list?
Luckily though for Overwatch you can just use credits on event skins during the event
first dont be mad at me that i didnt know this but is activision like EA (i never bought an actvision game)
bruh do you even know what you’re saying? you can literally check your kd by clicking tab or whatever, i feel like gameranx doesn’t even play the games they talk abt
Activision? i at least know i'm gonna hear transformers WFC trilogily
Hey, excuse me what about... *COLD WAR*
Ever since CoD Cold War multi-player [mostly the season pass] I've had a love HATE relationship with Activision
WARZONE
Nah nah nah tranzit is worse then tortured path
Sky landers spyros adventure hit different, the games after that we’re just half assed. Didn’t stop me from buying them though
I need money money money gibe me moneh What inspired you to make this game?* Activision: MONEY
Skylanders was amazing and I would gladly buy the figures again to collect
You forgot Call of Duty Cold War
I loved infinite warfare tbh
Me seeing the titanfall2 credits: pointing Leonardo decaprio
I loved Skylanders it made me buy most of them to play everything
I actually have all skylanders games and ninety percent of characters i liked the games but i get what u meant
I think you need to realize that pre ordering helps the company with the game but I can understand why so many people dislike pre ordera
I feel like buying classes in some FPSs is unnecessary. Maybe it’s just me, though, I like having every character in games.
I just want to compliment the style of the 'narrator'.. it feels like you're talking to us.. telling us a story Something like that.. and also that youve played all the games you are talking about. Makes it more interesting to listen to. Nice.
At first glance i thought the wheel-less skateboard would be for real life skateboarding heheheh
Live footage of activision CEO: MONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEYMONEY
All games lol
wow new mic?
10:01 or you could go to gamestop and get it for 10 like i did
number one : black ops 4
Honestly the only good thing they ever made was mw2
Well every company does it
The fact that COD modern warfare is 200 plus gigabytes , i know its not a cash grab but considering all the money they get from microtransactions they STILL havent fixed that...
Latest one is Shadowlands.
skylanders i rlly liked it. it was fun and my mom would take me out to get new characters and we would collect them. but ya it was a huge cash grabs
I don’t think this is a cash grab but troll and I it is horrible bad graphics,bad controls, and horrible story and they charge you 15$ to buy it and I bought the disc and it was about 9$
EA: *Amateurs.*
Ok I had so many skylanders and I have no regrets
Can someone explain why so many CoD games that released back before my balls dropped are still 40 to 60 dollars to this day?
People hacked the zombies also
Am so happy to have my Activision account successfully recovered
CashVision
Infinite warfare had a good campaign on its own
BO3 microtransactions were such a pain in the ass
Most 3D ps1 games were sluggish...
Me: man I want a shooter. . . Let's look at cod. . . COD: haha 50 dollar for every game haha
I love this channel, but this dude just fricked all over my favorite games, half of these decisions on activisions part made sense so idk what he’s rambling about
Adam
10 dagar sedan
Briefcase full of sand.
I know one! Its called Cold War
I bought anthem the week it came out for about £60 and then when I launched it I had to BUY a subscription to PlayStation plus to get past the start screen.
Activision hasn't been legit since the original Pitfall on the Atari 2600 back in '82. 🤔.... 😳 *"NUFF SAID"™*
Activision fraudulently destroyed trek industry
I got the legacy edition of cod for 7$ with the normal and legacy disc
Talk about Cod mobile loot boxes.
EA is way worse though.
If Call of Duty Mobile with $500 gun skins is not on here I’ll be mad. They were in lucky draws.
Emily N
8 dagar sedan
@Beowulf jesus 😂
Beowulf
8 dagar sedan
@Emily N pretty much. Along with several other lucky draws that amount to $100 each.
Emily N
8 dagar sedan
$500????
destinys entire seven year lifespan could be put on this list
BO4 BOCW Ghosts voiceover packs Cryptocurrency BO3 BOCW battlepass CoD WW2 CoD WW2 supply crates Infinite Warfare DLC Infinite Warfare voiceover packs BO4 DLC Hmm I see a pattern
Predicting it now, newest cod will release MW2 remaster side by side. Activision needs to burn, you can see just how scummy they are with Warzone and Cold Wars crap. Worst developer of all time. Easily. No debate. By miles and miles and miles
It's almost useless to do this count down cause if you just wait a day EA or Activision will do another horrible cash grab act. You will just end up having to make a new list each week. But still love to see how Greedy this companies can get.
Amazed none of them talk about either Black Ops 3 and Black Ops 4
They got nothing on FIFA Ultimate team
And this list is why I no longer play ActiBlizzard games. They got enough of my money from my years of playing WoW. Once I got a more powerful system and discovered Skyrim, I handed my Blizzard account over to my daughter. She uses it occasionally.
bru i loved skylanders
Number 2 shouldn't be on there that's a pack that your gonna buy for the skin and the blueprints the watch is just a little extra
I think we can all agree that bo4 was definitely a cash grab😂
infinite warfare is amazing
lego dimensions is the only good toys to life game for all ages
Random question, what microphone are you using?
You forgot them re-releasing all of D1 into D2 as "new stuff" after you bought the game... I guess maybe not a cash grab, but when you advertise it as "new content" It gets frustratingly infuriating real quick.
The most asdhole cash grab I've ever seen is harry pottery mobile game. You could never beat it and it kept asking for money to play it. Basicly EA be like pay to play harry potter mobile pay to breath.
2 isn’t really a good example, since as you say “can check outside of the match” for what reason would you ever check your K/D ratio IN A MATCH. Gunfire all around you “let me stop and check my K/D” why does that make sense to you? The watch is a cosmetic for the skin, and as much as it is a “simple feature” what purpose would K/D help in a match? Btw you can check K/D on TDM
Every though Activion has, is a cash grab. it's all about the motherfucking oil!
I would argue that Activision is the worst publisher at the moment. Even worse than EA, Ubisoft or Konami. Microsoft should just buy Activision and put an end to that publisher.
i think a worlds #1 cashgrab was fortnite and everything connected to it
Top 10? More like top 100.
I prefer the battle pass system over the paid dlc system
wana talk about cod warzone selling blueprints with secret stats ? if you happen to buy em you get shadowbanned from mass report by other players for being to good with it ? XD happened to me
Beautiful video idea.
You could've had concluded the Modern Warfare and Cold War thing (basically they took warzone and connected it to cold war, Modern Warfare's multiplayer doesnt have a battle pass, it has Cold War's battle pass)
Activision treating it's customers like a bunch of addicts. Stopped playing Activision and EA games a long time ago because of this.
Wow, can’t you tell the difference between Activision and Blizzard. Don’t say that’s not true cause that would make you stupid.
Cod mobile and cod online are there biggest scams
If everyone just stopped buying cod points and didn’t even bother to look at their packs then Activision would be forced to stop fucking over pricing them but that will never happen
Modern Warfare Remastered was the first COD game I purchased.
Ah. Microtransactions for starwars battlefront 2 deserves a mention. Also eye of judgement card game on PS3 predated skylanders. Hundreds of cards to collect our of packs that were mostly common card characters. And a camera with the poorest of tracking that made placement of characters a hit and miss. I wasted hundreds on that game.😡
I believe there was also an snow boarding game with the board controller as well, I dont know if it was from Activision or not
I love the Destiny saga, but those Dlc with skyhigh prices made me get out of the game...
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At the same time EA is worse in every way
It's not fair to just blame activision I have this problem at work were there's a budget per site certain hours allocated and I'm starting to realize that by the time I actually see my equipment and material including consumables 5 -10 people have already touched this particular site