Activision appears to have played the MTX card yet again, proving worse than the last. Black Ops 4 has received an update to its Blackout mode that introduced a pay to win mechanic for its limited time modes.

The pay to win mechanic is called Blackjack’s Stash, and allows players to get black market weapons. These weapons give them gameplay advantages in the Blackout. Players get the ability to get one Blackjack Stash per game. This seems like a good addition on the surface, but they ignored a key point of those stashes. You can only get weapons you’ve gotten from Reserves, which are conveniently the game’s loot boxes.

Needless to say, the community isn’t happy. Checking the game’s dedicated subreddit, you’ll find that the update’s pinned post currently has zero upvotes. There are also about 460 comments talking about it and other changes in the update. It appears that devs aren’t happy about the news either, with Kotaku reporting that some devs feel the pain of those players frustrated with micro-transactions being shoved into the game.

We can only hope now that Treyarch might take a larger stance against Activision and try to fix the mess they created. It’s likely too late though, with Modern Warfare releasing this October. We’ll keep you posted if the situation changes though.