So the Black Ops 7 beta dates have just been announced by Activision. And honestly, the reaction is exactly as you would expect it to be. Chaos itself. The beta starts on October 2nd at 10 am PT for those who preordered, or who are Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass subscribers; then the open beta starts at the same time on October 5th and runs all the way to October 8th, 10 am PT. Those are just the facts and figures, but check out the replies; the real story takes off from there.
Now the players set out to expose the giant elephant in the room. Or should I say, the other shooter in the room? @GABRIELJENKINS_ blatantly vomited out, “Then battlefield October 10th,” giving a two-days-after-this-beta-ends-not-so-subtle reminder that EA’s Battlefield 6 will see release on October 10th. @nofavorz_6 likewise answered, “BF6 drops 10/10.” This is no mere beta announcement; these are the opening salvos in the eternal shooter war.
Given the timing, the community couldn’t withhold some of the side-eyes. For real? Like why would you have a beta so close to the actual anticipated launch of the game? @ivanl__98 pondered: “If the game is having a beta less than a month away from official release, then it’s extremely likely they won’t make any changes or take anything from that, effectively just to give u a ‘taste’ right before release.” In relation, his comparison with BF6 was: “Actually analyze & go thru feedback + bugs.” Ouch, that was a direct hit on Hotel Activision. @chainGUNX simply called it out for probably being a “demo.”
Skepticism goes on. @jaybossjohnson1 threw some shade into the mix: “Hopefully all 17 people playing the beta will be able to give them enough feedback.” Many players feel deeply burned from this entire cycle of CoD. @whiteandcross hasn’t even been paying attention: “Lol.. I normally play cod or bf betas but I’m gonna pass on this🤣🤣 not worth my data & time.” @141GoingDark kept it short and sweet: “We’re not buying.” Hype? Eh, wild estimation.
Then there are the hackers. One of the bane issues for COD players, the beta has nothing new to solve in this regard. @V2LegitGaming sounded the alert, begging, “keep the hackers away! mfs was already hacking in the BF6 beta.” That ignited an entire conversation on anti-cheat. @mike75961 dove into the tech talk: BF6 uses hardware bans; basically, “you get hardware banned which means you will have to build a whole new pc in order to play it.” The collection is of “serial numbers off the gpu, cpu and so on from the registered motherboard off the bios.” That’s hardcore. @Bryce123317 dropped the realist bomb: “Here’s the thing. No matter how good you think your anticheat is, someone is going to figure it out. How you adjust after that is the key part. Which cod has been terrible with.” It’s a bottomless arms race.
With the hype versus suspicions going on, some players stayed kind of excited. @thenoch1 basically said “I’m hyped to play it.” And @AnnitaBlunt318 jumped onto the bandwagon with “Yesss sirrr LFG!” So, it’s not all doom and gloom. But the vast majority of feelings are warily cautious. A beta this late feels like marketing, and people know it.
Also, can we talk about the most random reply? @sierrasuite randomly asked the AI, “@charlieINTEL Hei @grok wich is the worst call of duty game ever in term of sales?” And the AI @grok actually answered! “Based on sales data, the original Call of Duty (2003) has the lowest figures at around 4.5 million units. Among modern entries, Infinite Warfare sold about 28 million, per recent reports.” Complete random sales fact dropped in the middle of all this beta chaos. Crazy world.
Now the question remains: will you be joining for October 2nd, or waiting to see how that Battlefield brawl ends? And either way, shooter-alley this fall is going to have some noise blasting.
