CoD gets "Blunt Force" pack - it's weed themed gun skins

[Nieroshai]

That's kind of awesome and also highly irresponsible considering that a lot of kids play CoD.

Seriously? Why?

I mean, I hardly think the kiddies will be made into junkies because they saw a picture of some leaf in a video game.

Because while its responsible use is never mentioned, its use and coolness are pushed hardcore. Do I personally feel responsible adults should use what pleases them responsibly? Yes. Do I think showing kids that getting high off your ass and being a dick is cool and he's totally a fag if he doesn't get with the picture is irresponsible and should be discouraged? Definitely.

Also, now that we're on the subject, where are the Doritos and Mountain Dew skins? And for shits and giggles, I want a trollface reticle. If we are gonna go full douche mode, let's turn it up to eleven unironically.

 

[Irridium]

Didn't this come out in May? Kind of late to the party but whatev.

Frankly I'm just disappointed it didn't come out on 4/20.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

people are pretty relaxed about weed

Heh.

Weed has been just as integral to the online experience as using enough colourful language to paint the world's most offensive mural. In MW2, there were at least three weed-related tags if I recall correctly, and everyone had something of similar nature in their names. This just seems to acknowledge it.

Though I agree with Nieroshai; they need to really ramp it up now. I expect a gun that fires only in swears. A rocket launcher that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Troll faces everywhere.

 

[Pogilrup]

people are pretty relaxed about weed

Heh.

Weed has been just as integral to the online experience as using enough colourful language to paint the world's most offensive mural. In MW2, there were at least three weed-related tags if I recall correctly, and everyone had something of similar nature in their names. This just seems to acknowledge it.

Though I agree with Nieroshai; they need to really ramp it up now. I expect a gun that fires only in swears. A rocket launcher that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Troll faces everywhere.

This seems to give me an idea for a comedy FPS game.

 

[Ryotknife]

The funny thing is...these skins are likely to get you killed in the game. It is much easier to spot someone with a custom paint job on their gun. Any vivid colors in environments of mostly grey, white, black, and brown stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

The only thing wrong with all of this is that they're selling it. They could put some time together and, I don't know, make a valued expansion pack or something, but instead opt to put some half-assed reskins for sale. Pretty shitty practice, but hey.

The idea of weed-themed guns is actually pretty damn cool. I can dig it. But that texture job is fucking terrible. Looks like someone's 5-minute job modding Skyrim.

 

[Adultism]

All the weed haters in this thread whoa so unexpected.

Well I'm pretty sure I said like 2 years ago I would never play another remake COD again. Who would pay for skins anyways I'd rather just have a normal black weapon.

 

[zen5887]

Holy shit this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

Hell, didn't they recently legalize it in parts of the US?

As a Colorodian I can field this question.

Weed is technically legal in Colorodo according to state law, but there's a fuckload of federal red tape in regards to where, when, and how much can be smoked without a prescription, and it varies on a city to city basis.
In my city for instance you can possess weed without getting busted, provided you're over 21, but you can't smoke it on public property, and you can't sell or buy it within the city limits.
Of course that's just what I've heard from friends and people I've asked at record stores who've put WAY more research into this then I care to, I've never touched that crap and have no plans to.

OT: Well that's... dumb. I guess they have no illusions as to whom their audience is though, I'll give them that.

 

[Evonisia]

Oh Activision, Ghosts still sold millions of copies, stop being so desperate with these DLCs every week for Ghosts.

They're appealing the dudebros of the Call of Duty playerbase, clearly, who'll think it's so awesome that they get weed on their guns. You make the playerbase look so good, Activision, really.

 

[AJ_Lethal]

people are pretty relaxed about weed

Heh.

Weed has been just as integral to the online experience as using enough colourful language to paint the world's most offensive mural. In MW2, there were at least three weed-related tags if I recall correctly, and everyone had something of similar nature in their names. This just seems to acknowledge it.

Though I agree with Nieroshai; they need to really ramp it up now. I expect a gun that fires only in swears. A rocket launcher that looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Troll faces everywhere.

This seems to give me an idea for a comedy FPS game.

So far we only have this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_7Wv5eKHo

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Oh Activision, Ghosts still sold millions of copies, stop being so desperate with these DLCs every week for Ghosts.

They're appealing the dudebros of the Call of Duty playerbase, clearly, who'll think it's so awesome that they get weed on their guns. You make the playerbase look so good, Activision, really.

You know, people ***** but, one drunken night I woke up with Ghosts in my games section. I've been playing it ever since, and I have to say it's multiplayer is fun so long as you aren't playing with Toxic players, which I've only encountered one so far.

 

[Evonisia]

Oh Activision, Ghosts still sold millions of copies, stop being so desperate with these DLCs every week for Ghosts.

They're appealing the dudebros of the Call of Duty playerbase, clearly, who'll think it's so awesome that they get weed on their guns. You make the playerbase look so good, Activision, really.

You know, people ***** but, one drunken night I woke up with Ghosts in my games section. I've been playing it ever since, and I have to say it's multiplayer is fun so long as you aren't playing with Toxic players, which I've only encountered one so far.

Eh, I just couldn't get into it, singleplayer, co-op or multiplayer. If you don't encounter toxic players that's awesome. I can't say I found many when I tried playing Ghosts, I just don't like the game enough to continue playing it.

 

[Something Amyss]

That's kind of awesome and also highly irresponsible considering that a lot of kids play CoD.

That's the target audience, though.

 

[omega 616]

Yes, this is real[footnote]http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/26/5656452/call-of-duty-marijuana-theme-pot-camo-skin-dlc[/footnote][footnote]http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/call-of-duty-gets-pun-heavy-with-weed-themed-camo/[/footnote]

"Guns blazing" takes on new meaning with the marijuana-themed camouflage pattern that Call of Duty: Ghosts is now selling over Xbox Live.

I guess you gotta pander to your demographic, right?

It's actually self referential to call the pack that, in mw2 you could unlock a title by hitting 3 or 5 people with the riot shield, it was called blunt truma, which of course was weed leaves. (was also high command and joint ops).

On topic. Yeah, it is pandering to the people who play your games 'cos lets be honest, if a person smokes weed they REALLY want you to know about it! It's like that vegan/religious joke "how do you know if a person smokes weed? Don't worry they will tell you".

 

[Rozalia1]

... What is wrong with this? Aren't you all judging weed smokers a bit with the comments being made?
No harm in it all.

 

[Shpongled]

... What is wrong with this? Aren't you all judging weed smokers a bit with the comments being made?
No harm in it all.

You're allowed to make comments of wide sweeping generalizations if you're targeting anything CoD. It's how the Escapist works. Move along now, try not to break up the circlejerk.

OT: Tacky DLC no doubt. But if it sells then all the power to them to be honest.

 

[RJ 17]

Eh, my response to this is the general response to weed these days: "Ho-hum". Surveys have shown (no, I'm not looking them up, I've just heard about them so believe me or not, I really don't care ) that the slight majority of the US population is now officially in favor of legalizing it. Most people realize that it's really not that big of a deal...or at least not as big of a deal as the anti-pot commercials would have you believe. The general feeling is "if booze and cigarettes are legal, why not weed?" That and there's far worse crime to be focused on then someone smoking some weed. With today's progressive society, it's really only a matter of time before it becomes legal.

So who cares if the CoD is "endorsing" the weed culture by coming out with this? I'd imagine a fair number of CoD players smoke weed so it makes sense.

Oh, and lets not forget that there were 3 titles you could earn in Modern Warfare 2 that had pot leafs as the background.

 

[Robot Number V]

That's kind of awesome and also highly irresponsible considering that a lot of kids play CoD.

Seriously? Why?

I mean, I hardly think the kiddies will be made into junkies because they saw a picture of some leaf in a video game.

I should have been clearer. I don't think anyone will start smoking pot because of CoD. I think this is irresponsible from a PR standpoint. Not for CoD as much as for the entire gaming industry. It might become the next big controversy. TV networks are already highly anti-gaming. This is fuel for anti-gaming propaganda. We don't need that kind of controversy. They will use kids as an excuse to spout their senseless shit because the dominant stereotype is still that video games are for kids.

I think if COD can handle the whole "No Russian" thing, they can handle some pictures of weed. Anyway, the game is rated M. If kids see shit their parents don't want them to see, it's their own fault for buying them the game.

 

[Superbeast]

The general feeling is "if booze and cigarettes are legal, why not weed?"

I'm not touching the actual argument about weed itself with a ten-foot barge-pole, but I want to go on an ever-so-slight tangent with this. In the UK (well, probably only England and Wales given the devolution of health control), the British Medical Association is calling for the gradual, phased-out banning of smoking (anyone born after 2000, iirc, would not be able to buy cigarettes full stop, so current smokers would not be punished but no one else could *legally* buy cigarettes and therefore theoretically start smoking). If this were to go ahead (unlikely, but people said the same thing about the indoor smoking ban initially), it would create a situation where only alcohol was legal (not tobacco) - would that alter the argument for the legalisation of cannabis (as it would become the only thing allowed to be smoked if so)?

I really should write something on-topic...

I think this is a bit daft, and won't help with the general view of gamers as a whole. I don't care if you smoke weed, but why does everything need to be covered in weed-related designs? I could get behind other nerd-based skins, such as My Little Pony (which I guess is what that unicorn one is, just avoiding copyright) or Star Trek or something, but this just seems daft. Mind you, I have never got advertising the smoking of weed anyway (coming from a currently-quitting smoker, I never saw the need to "evangelise" about my past-time, never used it as a screen-name nor would I want skins for anything from mobile phones to in-game weapons to have cigarette-related designs) nor have I ever got the iconic status it seems to have in alternative cultures - be it music or the internet or gaming or whatever.

If the market wants stuff like those skins (and the old titles/achievements) it then I guess it is reasonable as a way of making money, but...just...why?