Does anybody else get legitimately stressed and angered by the franchise constantly?

[Tanith1stAndOnly]

I feel like COD brings out the worst in me every single time I boot it up, and yet its hard to put it down. I took a bit to reflect after MW 2019, and decided to stop playing COD for the sake of my own mental health and well-being. I sold my physical copy of the game and moved on. I decided to give MW2 2022 a try after thinking that maybe it was just something to do with my life in that moment that made the game have such an effect on me, but no change. I played MW2 2022 multiplayer for six hours before coming to the conclusion that it's still incredibly unhealthy for me and requesting a refund.

I encourage everyone to take a moment and really reflect on if you are actually enjoying your time with this game. If you do, great! But if you find it difficult to really point to the things that make you happy when you play this game, please move on, for your own sake.

[Gon Freecss]

the game has so many BS perks, kills streaks, death behind walls, unbalanced guns and awful spawns. So yeah its very frustrating and makes the experience bad.

It also gives the highs everyone craves from the dopamine hit too. Its very toxic in that way and is bad for mental health. BUT i think it all depends on your mindset. Looking at this game as a competitive game is a bad idea.

[The lobstergod]

I don't get stressed but i do get angry but not legitimately angry just in the moment kinda thing

[J4MESOX4D]

The game is more frustrating than fun IMO. For every one decent match you can have, you may end up getting put into 4-5 horrible lobbies or join games in progress that aren't worth playing in after that.

Old COD games were so much better without this strict brand of matchmaking and persistent lobbies. All I seem to be doing is hopping from soulless match to match and have about one satisfactorily enjoyable game every half hour if I'm lucky.

It's definitely an addictive title and something that can be played without much brain power but the franchise just isn't as fun or casual as it used to be and there's just too many artificial factors in play that you just can't trust or truly enjoy what you're participating in.

[EAX]

I kind of noticed the same. Game is unhealthy for me too. First of all it manages to make me rage while im usually a calm person and it managed to make me toxic, while im usually not.
But heres the problem, where to move to? Its not like the market is throwing good products left and right. Im just sitting in CoD franchise because the market doesnt ship anything that is half decent right now.
I honestly expected MW2 to be my battlefield replacement after 2042 beeing such a miserable failure but MW2 doesnt ship with a single well made Groundwars/Invasion Map, so these 2 gamemodes are dead to me.
6v6 doesnt ship with a single well made map either, these maps are next to unplayable for my favourite HQ/HP gamemodes.

So in short, if im not going to play DotA or CS GO and quit MW2... i could also throw out my PC Rig entirely bcz the market nowadays is full of trash and the only games im waiting for are from Hideo Kojima, nobody else is capable of delivering quality in the western market.

[wildgoose]

I sometimes vomit between games and that makes me feel better

[Tanith1stAndOnly]

Originally posted by supad:

the game has so many BS perks, kills streaks, death behind walls, unbalanced guns and awful spawns. So yeah its very frustrating and makes the experience bad.

It also gives the highs everyone craves from the dopamine hit too. Its very toxic in that way and is bad for mental health. BUT i think it all depends on your mindset. Looking at this game as a competitive game is a bad idea.

Unfortunately, so many of the mechanics of the push me to be competitive, because it is indeed a competitive shooter. I talked to a few of my friends about the issue and we tend to agree that the game is designed to be addictive by leaning extremely heavily on competitive game design. That is just simply our observation, but even from a company standpoint it would make sense to make your playerbase feel committed to the product to maximize profit, and feels as though they achieve this by creating an almost hyper-competitive gameplay loop.

[swaggytoast]

did you get your refund? steam denied mine when I explained the constant crashing and keybinds getting reset. I played coldwar, canceled mw19 after the beta, and before that my last cod was bo3. never again buying cod. it's not the same franchise

[Tanith1stAndOnly]

Originally posted by swaggytoast:

did you get your refund? steam denied mine when I explained the constant crashing and keybinds getting reset. I played coldwar, canceled mw19 after the beta, and before that my last cod was bo3. never again buying cod. it's not the same franchise

Haven't heard back yet, hoping so. How many hours of "Gameplay" did you have? I was sitting at slightly over 6 but with all the time in menus, waiting on queues or waiting for my computer to respond after my hourly crash, I would hardly consider that gameplay time.

[J4MESOX4D]

Originally posted by swaggytoast:

did you get your refund? steam denied mine when I explained the constant crashing and keybinds getting reset. I played coldwar, canceled mw19 after the beta, and before that my last cod was bo3. never again buying cod. it's not the same franchise

You have 57 hours on record - that's way beyond the refund policy threshold.

[WilliamHenry]

As long as you can keep in mind it's a game that is not close to 100 percent skilled based and luck has a major role you should keep sane. If it's messing with you're mental help for gods sake don't play it.

[Digusting Abomination]

I'm thinking about quitting pvp games for this reason, this game feels like an unpaid job and I don't have any fun, even if I get a good kd and win the process is so stressful that it isn't worthy, I'm starting to understand the pve/coop only folks better now

[4accenter]

The most bad is that a lot of people don´t understand what they have to in the different game types. For example S&D or something else. They just camping, shooting and happy with K/D but loosing while the opponent is using the brain. Angry makes me headquarter with a lot of campers in the own team. Every time I´m thinking "a little lost brain"....

[Dio]

no because I can control my emotions

[sidray749]

maybe some curse words here and there but nah, never really get stressed. maybe you should remember that you're probably not the best player out there and even when you did good on some matches, your teammates didn't.

[UnholyDentist]

If you feel like it's bad for you, just stop and play something else. I think your problem is that you give a ♥♥♥♥, too much for that matter. Our generation gets fed with seeking perfection and thriving to be best. That is the psychology you are constantly and subconsciously apply to playing this game, every time you die, ever time you fail to kill, contradicts to this psychology and accumulates anger in you.

You don't have to be the best, you don't have to min-max anything, you don't have to collect and unlock everything. Give up that crap, select the weapon you like, and just play, is my best advice. Just try to play not giving a crap about anything, but the objectives (but don't try to be 1st), for an hour, see if it makes it better.