“A Personalized Profile analyzes your unique head and ear shape for precision sound,” reads the option on the Call of Duty store.
Sounds customized for your specific ear shape??? I’ve never been less willing to believe something in my life
Sony did this with the ps5, you had to send Mark Cerny ear pics…
It is a real thing. Very few people have identical ears on both sides of their head, and almost no one shares the same shape with another person. There’s a few active implementations of this on truly wireless earbuds, but the latency makes it irrelevant for most things except music. Depending on just how unique the ear shape is, it can drastically change how things sound.
In no capacity should it be a paid feature in a game, though. In a more competitive game with a lot of value placed on audio like Escape From Tarkov, this would completely change the game and how it is played.
TLDR: Your ears are unique, and your brain spends your entire life from the moment your ears are hearing things, tuning to them.
Imagine still buying and playing Cod games in 2024
Black Ops 3 on steam has enough workshop content to last well past this flash in the pan. I’ll stay with that.
Imagine paying for the privilege of hearing unemployed dudes and 12 year olds call you racial slurs in higher quality.
Can I get higher quality slurs? I want my racism to be more sophisticated than the common man; like Measurehead in Disco Elysium.
Granted, the slurs are now far more hurtful to you when you hear them due to their high quality.
Greed. That reason is greed.
Steam needs an anti-wishlist so I remember not to buy it when it’s on sale for $1 ten years from now 😅
Except that’ll never work with COD. They almost never go on sale, and are still sold at full retail price years down the line. Hell, if you go to buy the original Modern Warfare from like 2007, it’ll STILL be $60!!!
It was on sale for 9,99 just a few weeks ago.
That’s still pretty expensive for a 17 year old game though.
Can’t you hide games?
Oh true, I forgot about that feature.
PSA: you can also block publishers (and I presume developers too)
That’s what the ignore option is for. I just wish I could do it for entire companies.
You can.
One might think that paying extra would simply cover the extra costs of a specific audio license. I’m not claiming anything regarding this, as I don’t know, but I do would say that CoD games had spatial audio for many many years already.
Anyways, next up: “thanks for purchasing our game, are you interested in purchasing access to the 3D renderer or the input handler? both are billed separately for your convenience”
Some reason… I think its money.
Fun (probably) fact. Warzone players complained almost constantly about the lack of audio quality. It was an issue that only got worse with each “season”. So now that this happens, I can see why.
“Hey players, you complained and we listened! Now pay the fuck up!”
So sound whoring is a pay to use privilege now?
Oh shit this is hat immersive game pack shit?
Yeah, it’s garbage, don’t fucking use it. FFXIV did a whole thing back in end Walker and it just ruins audio
Meanwhile my 5.1 setup works with most games out of the box, and universal HRTF works better than IG on the 6 pairs of phones I’ve tested it on on 2 different fucking Games
Scam software
Balatro is like, $10 and available on my phone tho-…
This isn’t even the first game to do it, and you can get most of the way there with EQ.
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“For some reason.” Money. The reason is money.
“For some reason”? Greed. That is the exact reason.
“Because fuck you, give me money” - AJ
