Over the last couple of COD releases, Activision has served up a campaign early access period for pre-orders, but that will not be the case for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. In a statement provided to CharlieIntel, the Xbox developer says it "is fully focused on October 25th" as the team opts for a one-date launch for all aspects of this year's COD game.
Given that we've not heard any rumblings of campaign early access in recent weeks, we're not totally surprised by this, but it's nice to have some sort of confirmation nonetheless. Here's the team's full statement:
"The team is fully focused on October 25th. We are excited about all the game has to offer across Campaign, Multiplayer and Zombies. This year, we made the decision to ensure the community gets to dig in to any and all modes that they want at the same time, so we are back to one massive global launch moment October 25th. As such, there is no Early Access beat this year for Black Ops 6, just the countdown to launch."
Speaking of early access to the game, a massive two-weekend beta just wrapped up for the multiplayer portion of Black Ops 6 - a beta that developer Treyarch now says is "the biggest Call of Duty beta ever". We're not surprised by that, given that the whole thing was playable on Xbox Game Pass; even the early access portion.
If you'd like to read up on our thoughts on this multiplayer beta, feel free to check out the link below, and in the meantime, eager COD fans will have to wait until October 25th to play Black Ops 6 once again.
Disappointed that there's no campaign EA this year? Drop your thoughts on this down in the comments section.
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Early access it's a stupid practice for games anyway for me glad they aren't doing it!
I've only ever did an Early Access once, and I regretted it, so I won't bother again.
I am looking forward to this game though, I've not played a COD game for a long while.
The consensus online about this is that Microsoft wants the launch player numbers to be as high as possible instead of a staggered launched where alot of people that only want to play campaign play it early and then don't come back when the multiplayer launches.
Could not care less about this. Dead Rising, Until Dawn and the Silent Hill 2 remake are all coming out a few weeks before COD, so I'm in no rush for the campaign.
Was good to get the single player out of the way then could just play multiplayer on the release day.
And what has that got to do with the Beta? The Beta was only a 'test' for the Multiplayer component anyway and therefore has no impact on the Campaign at all - regardless of how successful the Beta was.
All this means is that instead of having to wait to play the MP, or only give/force you to play the campaign only until the MP/Zombies modes release. Now you can choose to play whatever you want, when you want from the day it releases....
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