Call of Duty’s Ongoing 4/20 Obsession Sparks Debate Among Fans: Some Have Had Enough, Others Really Want That Seth Rogen Skin

Call of Duty is steeped successful 4/20 culture. It’s thing Activision has monetized for years now, doubling down connected the fanbase’s estimation for kicking backmost and relaxing portion going for those killstreaks. But with Black Ops 6 and Warzone, the 4/20 microtransactions person leveled up, and present Seth Rogen is successful the crippled immoderate fans person had enough.

The Season 03 Reloaded update, retired tomorrow, May 1, is beauteous overmuch each astir 4/20 culture, adjacent though it arrives 11 days aft the time itself. The Joint Operations (I spot what they did there) Limited Time Mode is simply a Black Ops 6 multiplayer variant that adds modifiers, including a +420 Score Bonus (I spot what they did there), 3rd Person, Visual Impairment, Double Health, Hardcore, Paranoia Sounds, Low Gravity, Double Jump, and Increased Movement Speed (I spot what they did there, etc).

It’s a akin concern implicit successful conflict royale Warzone. The Verdansk Limited Time Mode High Trip Resurgence (I’m not saying it again) challenges players to “smoke” the contention (nope, I’m not saying it).

Yes, it's 4/20 clip again successful Call of Duty. Image credit: Activision Publishing.

And past there’s the High Art event, which includes yet different 1,100 COD Point-premium lawsuit walk (we’ve been done this earlier with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). This time, satellite celebrated pothead Seth Rogen is the existent prima of the lawsuit pass, with exclusive skins successful the premium track. Take that, Jay & Silent Bob.

The lawsuit Blaze of Glory (MP, ZM, WZ) runs from May 6-15, and tasks players with collecting Blaze Bucks dropped by eliminated enemies and recovered successful proviso caches successful Warzone. Even Nuketown, possibly Call of Duty’s astir fashionable map, is getting a 4/20 makeover arsenic it becomes Blazetown. Check it retired successful the video below.

OK so, that’s a lot. Multiple 4/20 events, 4/20 modifiers, a 4/20 Nuketown, and, for the archetypal time, a 4/20 premium lawsuit pass. Is it each a bit… much? Is it clip for Call of Duty to determination on?

Ahead of the Season 03 Reloaded update going unrecorded this week, 4/20 has go the large talking constituent wrong Call of Duty's online community, peculiarly wrong the online Black Ops 6 community. “What's with the 420 obsession?” asked redditor 12MillionDollarMan successful a station upvoted implicit 1,100 times.

“It was comic similar 15 years agone successful MW2 with the associated ops and precocious bid titles but present it’s f*** obsessed levels it’s not adjacent comic anymore, conscionable implicit done.”

Will you wage retired for that Seth Rogen skin? Image credit: Activision Publishing.

“It was conscionable precocious 4/20 and they lowkey suck astatine scheduling worldly properly,” added ih8atlascorp. “I personally don't attraction for it, and bash deliberation it's getting overplayed, but astatine the aforesaid time, there's a wide marketplace if they support releasing more, truthful powerfulness to those who take to walk their wealth connected this.

“I bash deliberation the Host Rogen tegument is astatine slightest chill looking though. Feel similar they could've easy conscionable done a personage lawsuit walk for this with him. First 1 conscionable looks goofy.”

“Yea; I don't caput 420 oregon weed; it conscionable feels weird that this year's COD has felt glued to it,” commented Hambino0400. “I'm definite it sells anserine bully which is wherefore but still; I conscionable would similar immoderate variety.”

“It conscionable keeps getting worse with the 'Weed' stuff. Now Seth Rogen is successful connected it?” complained ShortPeaness4074 successful different post.

Others person nary occupation with COD’s ongoing 4/20 obsession, and suggest players shouldn’t beryllium amazed to spot Activision proceed to thin into it.

“I don't cognize wherefore anyone is shocked successful immoderate capacity, if you've played the crippled longer than 5 minutes astir each lobby has a 420 successful astatine slightest 1 person's name, a bully information of this demographic is potheads,” said RedHatRogue. “People are buying this shit, hellhole I bought the weed wizard with rewards points I had lying astir due to the fact that helium looked funny.”

As has been pointed out, Activision would ditch the 4/20 updates if they weren’t fashionable capable to warrant the time, effort, and disbursal it takes to enactment them together. Call of Duty players emotion this stuff, and they astir apt ever will.

Warzone, with its precocious launched instrumentality to Verdansk, is mostly speaking successful a bully place, with fans loving the nostalgia fuelled instrumentality to the representation that started it all. Check retired IGN’s sweeping interrogation with the developers down Verdansk to find retired however they went astir it.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].