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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Issues Reports

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  Tuggernut (@Tuggernut4) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Shpeshal_Nick Two things about that: 1. Xbox has the metrics. If they're shaking this brand upside down for every penny, wouldn't they have already seen gamepass is the issue? 2. If you paid for a year of gamepass this year, it would cost you more than it would to buy Gears, Cod and FH6...

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  Mr. G! (@GoLamont) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ATVIAssist Unauthorized 2FA added to my account, Can no longer login. Opened multiple cases including account recovery, but they keep getting closed. I've had this account for 18 years and I'd Like to get it back. My BattleNet and XBox account are linked to it. @CallofDuty

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  Dylan (Dill the Pickle) 🇺🇸 🎮 (@DeathLordStrong) reported 8 minutes ago

  @GamingSinceNES Oh for sure it’s going to not have many day one titles on there they got rid of COD and lowered the price. I doubt they’ll get rid of the perks for like discounted games and such. I’m just saying they’ll never just say **** it scrap the whole subscription service.

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  🌸🔞BriannaBoonana ||3D Modeler|| (@BriannaBoonanaV) reported 15 minutes ago

  @NotSure15933706 @kingzides @AvaGG there is no expense of the fans, they make successions to a games title all over the place, how many cod games do we have? also i see no problem giving a game over to his wife when kratos has had literally 10 games of his own

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  Lê Công Vũ (@lecongvu1997) reported 20 minutes ago

  @4_cringey @VIIswimmingbu @stxrryknight_ Both Top Gun have Maverick admitted how flawed he was and then learnt to fix his way. CoD doesn't have 1/10 of that self-awareness. Expect a 3rd act whereas the American cavalry comes to the rescue of the helpless South Koreans.

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  Creeper (@Creeeper_) reported 20 minutes ago

  @TheGamingRevo3 Yearly cod is good cuz preservation of stuff unlike live service. This issue is we r due for a new engine it's been since 2019. But what is iw Poland up to instead of making mod tools

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  Ben Kallet (@benjaminkallet) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Activision @CallofDuty please fix the hacking, please

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  T.M (@tactmedic52) reported 23 minutes ago

  @NoneLizard Whatever you say man, that is just a CoD bias issue that does not appeal to 99% of games. If the UAV gets removed, nobody will care. Guaranteed.

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  Onyx Novha (@ItzNovhaTV) reported 23 minutes ago

  For past two days not one good lobby and not one legit lobby, @Treyarch @CallofDuty please fix this

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  The void (@GeneralDudeOg) reported 24 minutes ago

  @VixianProtogen My problem with cod is the games are always fun but also the games never reward skill at all. CoD is so brain dead because anyone can just jump in and go nuts, but genuinely building skill in the game means nothing.

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  RibombeeTeacher (@RibombeeTeacher) reported 25 minutes ago

  @DreamyLunar The problem is the gamemodes they announced were a 1v1 which has little to no appeal to me, and zombies which if I wanted to play that I'd just play CoD since they've done it for years.

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  TheChoujinVirus (@ChoujinVirus) reported 26 minutes ago

  @EnderSp1k3 @JoshAnimator because, if what lolicons say is true, it would be "harmless" as letting a kid play GTA V or COD. Though we all know the obvious answer. The issue is that lolicons play that as it's normal

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  Judgy judy (@FrugalFliza) reported 26 minutes ago

  This kind of people ruin COD services. Another type is the one buying from multiple shops but only choose one to accept, the others return. So much problem w cod sellers have stopped offering them.

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  Sourav Ghosh (@souravghosh) reported 26 minutes ago

  "ROAS & other efficiency metrics (NC-ROAS, aMER et al.) are misleading." I say this a lot. Sharing my rationale below. Please correct me where I am wrong. When an experienced operator like Sarah shares an opinion, I genuinely want to evaluate my blind spots. Full agreement on one thing: blended anything hides problems, and splitting new from returning is non negotiable. Here is what I keep snagging on. The three warning signs the post leans on - new customer revenue trending down, - first purchase contribution at -30% against a planned -10%, and - payback slipping from month 2 to month 6, none of them show up in ROAS, NC-ROAS, or aMER. First purchase contribution is a Contribution Profit number. Payback is either a cash timing question, or the LTV payback window. New customer revenue is a top line dollar figure. So the real early warning system here is 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸. That is the layer I would anchor on. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 Built on Gross Sales, ROAS and aMER go blind to discounts and returns. A heavily discounted month can read as efficient while the real margin erodes. Build them on Net Sales instead, and that leakage is already inside the number. One problem solved. But even on Net Sales, these ratios still cannot see your Cost of Delivery. They stay 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗠𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗠𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗲 If your COD percentage moves, from tariffs (the live one right now), a supplier price increase, freight, a 3PL change, or higher returns, your gross margin moves, and CM1 and CM2 move with it. Your ROAS can hold at 4.0 all month. Your aMER can sit perfectly still. Every efficiency ratio looks calm. And your Contribution Profit dollars quietly fall, because a revenue over spend ratio cannot see a cost change. Take spend decisions off those ratios while margin slides underneath, and you scale straight into a smaller contribution number. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 aMER and NC-ROAS both hang on one figure, new-customer Net Sales set against ad spend. The trouble is what is sitting inside that new-customer Net Sales number. Three things it quietly blends together. Past spend. A chunk of this month's new customers were primed by ads you ran weeks or months ago. Their Net Sales lands in this month's sales figure, but that spend is not in this month's spend total. Efficiency reads better than what today's dollars actually earned. Organic baseline. Some of those new customers were always coming, from word of mouth, brand, retail, referrals. The ratio hands every one of them to paid. Strip your organic baseline out and the real paid efficiency is lower than the blended number suggests. Delayed conversions. The spend you are running right now is priming new customers who have not bought yet. They are not in this month's Net Sales, so the ratio understates what today's spend is building. A brand investing in priming can look inefficient in the exact month its pipeline is filling. And the spend side has its own gap. These ratios put total ad spend against new-customer sales, while some of that spend might be going toward returning customers, intentionally or unintentionally. With proper exclusions set up you can keep most of that out, so it is a smaller issue, but a raw ratio still mixes acquisition and retention spend. So the sales side and the spend side do not line up in time, and the sales side does not separate paid from organic. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲. And attribution is never fully clean to begin with. That is a lot of weight to hang a spend decision on. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗲 A ROAS or aMER target is an average. Spend is a marginal decision. Assume 60% gross margin, so Gross Profit is Net Sales after COD: Spend $1,000/day at 4.0 blended ROAS: Net Sales $4,000, Gross Profit $2,400, Contribution Profit $1,400/day. Spend $5,000/day at 2.5 blended ROAS: Net Sales $12,500, Gross Profit $7,500, Contribution Profit $2,500/day. Worse efficiency. 𝟳𝟴% 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀. Optimize to the ratio and the math quietly tells you to spend less and sell less to protect the average, and you can starve the contribution you needed to cover fixed costs and the cash cycle. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘀 For daily diagnosis and steering, they earn their place. The pull is simpler: get the whole team optimizing toward the same dollar. A lot of fast growing subscription brands like to simplify around a target like this: returning customer CM2 covers OPEX, new customer CM2 covers acquisition. Clear that, and the surplus shows up as net profit. Not a universal law, just a clean way many of them keep decisions simple. Here is what I would actually like challenged. In ten years I have only seen efficiency metrics mislead people when those metrics were not anchored to revenue, profit, and cash. I have not seen a brand stay obsessed with revenue, profit, and cash and then get burned because it under-weighted the efficiency ratios. If you have seen the reverse, a brand that watched contribution and cash closely and still got blindsided in a way ROAS or aMER would have flagged first, that is the case I want to hear. Where is the blind spot? Evidence in the thread below, one piece at a time.

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  Timdog (@XboxTimdog) reported 27 minutes ago

  Day and date is about 100x less important than exclusives. For games that are huge AAA, it’s more powerful to have the exclusive. The subscribers to the eco just don’t warrant the sale of the game outright. COD is all you need to know. Not only that a person will sub for the one month 22.99 and after that leave type game. Day and date in 2027 is gonna start to roll back. It’s fine if the game is exclusive. That’s why it’s a weigh by weigh case by case issue.