Call of Duty: Warzone has just hit smartphones with the recent release of Warzone Mobile, which has all fans of Activision Blizzard’s classic FPS saga excited. However, it was inevitable that people would start making comparisons to the franchise’s other mobile title, COD Mobile, which was released in 2019. This generated a huge debate on Twitter, mainly focused on the micropayments in both titles.
Is Call of Duty Mobile pay to win? Debate rages among fans
While this debate has been present in several Call of Duty communities, this time it was perfectly illustrated in a Twitter thread posted by user @CGCODM. In this, the prices of two weapons from COD Mobile are compared with two weapons from Warzone Mobile. While the first game has quite high costs, as they sell you the weapon and skin together, the second has more reasonable prices, as they only sell you the skin for aesthetic reasons and nothing else. This led to a huge discussion among players: Is COD Mobile pay to win?, since the more money you have, the better weapons you will be able to buy.
Due to COD Mobile’s high prices, many Call of Duty fans claim that Warzone Mobile handles its micropayments in a much more reasonable way, since it focuses on aesthetics and doesn’t give you more powerful items just for spending more money. As if that wasn’t enough, the design of the weapons in both games has also been praised. While COD Mobile has normal guns with a special coat of paint on top, Warzone Mobile features completely unique weapons with original designs that look like something out of a fantasy or sci-fi video game. So there is also a clear difference between the aesthetic look of the two titles.
But of course, these fantastic firearms are not to everyone’s liking. First and foremost, Call of Duty is a military combat franchise with some hyper-realistic elements. Proponents of COD Mobile claim that despite the high prices of some of the weapons in that game, they all have more realistic designs and some are even classic guns that exist in the real world. Whereas Warzone Mobile’s skins look “straight out of an anime” and wouldn’t fit in with the overall aesthetic of the franchise. Though of course, this is mostly a matter of personal taste and both types of designs can coexist in a game series as big as this one.
At the end of the day, COD Mobile and Warzone Mobile are two mobile video games that are quite different in many ways, so both managed to cultivate completely different player bases, each with their own tastes and preferences. Moreover, even if one of these titles is pay to win and the other is not, all that money ends up in Activision Blizzard’s hands anyway. Despite the division in the community, they still come out ahead.
What do you think, which is the best Call of Duty mobile game, COD Mobile or Warzone Mobile?
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