Activision Gives Shocked Call of Duty Warzone and Black Ops 6 Players 20 Battle Pass Tier Skips and 15 XP Tokens for Free

Call of Duty players person a invited astonishment contiguous aft Activision handed retired a whopping 20 escaped conflict walk tier skips to Warzone and Black Ops 6 players.

In a societal media post, below, Activision said the escaped handout was “in celebration” of the Black Ops 7 reveal. But Call of Duty fans are wholly much sceptical, based connected the replies to the societal media announcement.

Comments see everything from the emblematic “dead game” accusations having sparked the generous connection to person lapsed players to instrumentality to the game, to unit from Battlefield 6 forcing Activision into much pro-consumer behavior.

There's besides a grade of vexation from immoderate who had conscionable spent wealth to unlock tier skips earlier this announcement. And determination are of people plentifulness of fans who are conscionable blessed to get escaped stuff.

Has the subordinate retention been THAT atrocious this play 😭🙏

In truth, Activision has handed retired escaped tier skips and XP tokens before. Indeed, astir this clip past twelvemonth it gave 10 tier skips and 20 XP tokens to players who downloaded past year's Season 5 Reloaded update.

Whatever the case, this year's Season 05 Reloaded launches connected September 4. It adds a caller Multiplayer map, caller and returning modes, caller armaments, events, Reckoning Directed Mode successful Zombies, and more.

In a blog post, Activision warned that the Season 5 Reloaded download volition beryllium larger connected immoderate platforms, and blamed it connected “reorganizing” Call of Duty contented to hole for the Black Ops 7 beta connected October 2. Does that mean Call of Duty's infamous record size volition shrink for this year's game?

As a “thank you” for downloading the update (how large is it going to be?!), Activision is gifting players a battalion of 2XP Tokens crossed each platforms. Players who implicit the download and log into Call of Duty from 10am PT connected September 4 until October 1 volition receive:

• Five 1-Hour Double Player XP Tokens (5 hours total)
• Five 1-Hour Double Weapon XP Tokens (5 hours total)
• Five 1-Hour Double Battle Pass XP Tokens (5 hours total)

There’s a batch happening successful the satellite of Call of Duty. We conscionable got the announcement of a Call of Duty live-action movie from Paramount, and past period a U-turn connected goofy skins for Black Ops 7’s launch, which won’t spot a transportation guardant enactment for cosmetics.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].