Trendy Warfare 3 added a beauty bundle to the CoD retailer that provides double XP and double weapon XP, main gamers to name out the devs for questionable monetization practices.

Activision added the Killer Operator bundle to the MW3 retailer. It’s the primary beauty merchandise with a celebration pores and skin bonus, which awards double XP and double weapon XP while you play collectively in events of at the very least two gamers whereas carrying the operator pores and skin. Gamers will obtain a double battle cross XP bonus in a celebration of three or extra customers. So in concept, gamers ought to be capable to get limitless double XP as lengthy, as they’ve part of two,

Earlier than this addition, the one solution to earn double XP was throughout a promotional weekend or by utilizing a token that solely lasted for a restricted time. CharlieIntel defined the brand new characteristic on Twitter, and it was met with an outpour of disgust within the feedback over Activision placing the XP enhance behind a paywall. The Killer operator bundle prices 1600 CoD factors, equal to $10.

“That is the brand new DMZ bonus shit,” CoD leaker TheGhostOfHope responded. In 2023, Activision launched a collection of operator bundles providing DMZ bonuses. If gamers had a pores and skin outfitted, they may begin a match with something from a self-revive package, UAV, bigger backpack, or extra armor, relying on which choice they bought. And to make issues even worse there was additionally an improve within the sport mode that may solely be unlocked by buying an operator bundle. We haven’t seen something fairly to that stage in Trendy Warfare 3’s iteration of Warzone, however gamers concern the worst.

“Pay to win,” a second consumer added. This bundle doesn’t essentially give gamers an unfair benefit over different gamers, however it’s a shortcut that not everybody could have entry to. This would possibly simply be the tip of the iceberg for what we see added to the shop by way of benefits and boosts.