Background

Back in early May 2018, a patch was issued to Call of Duty: Black ops 3 which broke one of the fundamental parts of the zombies' map known as Gorod Krovi. The patch meant that when completing the Easter Egg the game would crash and not show the ending cutscene or award the player the Achievement/Trophy or the Gateworm required to unlock more extras in later released content.

An Easter Egg is a series of very specific and often difficult tasks to complete while surviving wave-based combat, which unlock a cutscene which explains the "story" of the map. In later content, you require an unlocked Gateworm to be able to unlock special in-game recognition, 1million xp and a new starting weapon bonus for all maps.

Months went by with players constantly reminding Activision and Treyarch of the issue. They insisted they were working on a solution but more patches were issued to add multiplayer content without fixing the issue. The final nail in the coffin came when they patched the PC edition of Black ops 3 to fix the bug but did not patch the console versions.

Take Action

With the release of Black Ops 4, they went silent on the topic and it seems clear they wish to leave the game incomplete. The fact you can still purchase broken content like this could be classified as against consumer protection laws in both the UK and Australia but we allow companies to do this when we shouldn't.

This is a call to all gamers whether you play the game or not to stand up and say "This is not acceptable". We cannot allow companies to keep leaving games broken while they are still up for sale and making money in broken content. This should be a message to ALL game companies against practices like this and stop being complacent in their actions.

This is a call to say we wish this patch to be issued to the console versions or a refund to be Issued to EVERYONE who purchased both the Gorod Krovi map and Revelations map due to this being broken content which subtracts from the experience of multiple pieces of content. The missing achievements and gateworm subtract from the experience for many gamers and this is not acceptable.

After signing the petition please tweet Activision Support @ATVIAssist that you would like this fixed on consoles. You can also get in touch with Activision or Treyarch however you want. As long as we make it know this is what we would like.