CoD gets "Blunt Force" pack - it's weed themed gun skins

[RJ 17]

Eh, my response to this is the general response to weed these days: "Ho-hum". Surveys have shown (no, I'm not looking them up, I've just heard about them so believe me or not, I really don't care ) that the slight majority of the US population is now officially in favor of legalizing it. Most people realize that it's really not that big of a deal...or at least not as big of a deal as the anti-pot commercials would have you believe. The general feeling is "if booze and cigarettes are legal, why not weed?" That and there's far worse crime to be focused on then someone smoking some weed. With today's progressive society, it's really only a matter of time before it becomes legal.

So who cares if the CoD is "endorsing" the weed culture by coming out with this? I'd imagine a fair number of CoD players smoke weed so it makes sense.

Oh, and lets not forget that there were 3 titles you could earn in Modern Warfare 2 that had pot leafs as the background.

 

[Robot Number V]

That's kind of awesome and also highly irresponsible considering that a lot of kids play CoD.

Seriously? Why?

I mean, I hardly think the kiddies will be made into junkies because they saw a picture of some leaf in a video game.

I should have been clearer. I don't think anyone will start smoking pot because of CoD. I think this is irresponsible from a PR standpoint. Not for CoD as much as for the entire gaming industry. It might become the next big controversy. TV networks are already highly anti-gaming. This is fuel for anti-gaming propaganda. We don't need that kind of controversy. They will use kids as an excuse to spout their senseless shit because the dominant stereotype is still that video games are for kids.

I think if COD can handle the whole "No Russian" thing, they can handle some pictures of weed. Anyway, the game is rated M. If kids see shit their parents don't want them to see, it's their own fault for buying them the game.

 

[Superbeast]

The general feeling is "if booze and cigarettes are legal, why not weed?"

I'm not touching the actual argument about weed itself with a ten-foot barge-pole, but I want to go on an ever-so-slight tangent with this. In the UK (well, probably only England and Wales given the devolution of health control), the British Medical Association is calling for the gradual, phased-out banning of smoking (anyone born after 2000, iirc, would not be able to buy cigarettes full stop, so current smokers would not be punished but no one else could *legally* buy cigarettes and therefore theoretically start smoking). If this were to go ahead (unlikely, but people said the same thing about the indoor smoking ban initially), it would create a situation where only alcohol was legal (not tobacco) - would that alter the argument for the legalisation of cannabis (as it would become the only thing allowed to be smoked if so)?

I really should write something on-topic...

I think this is a bit daft, and won't help with the general view of gamers as a whole. I don't care if you smoke weed, but why does everything need to be covered in weed-related designs? I could get behind other nerd-based skins, such as My Little Pony (which I guess is what that unicorn one is, just avoiding copyright) or Star Trek or something, but this just seems daft. Mind you, I have never got advertising the smoking of weed anyway (coming from a currently-quitting smoker, I never saw the need to "evangelise" about my past-time, never used it as a screen-name nor would I want skins for anything from mobile phones to in-game weapons to have cigarette-related designs) nor have I ever got the iconic status it seems to have in alternative cultures - be it music or the internet or gaming or whatever.

If the market wants stuff like those skins (and the old titles/achievements) it then I guess it is reasonable as a way of making money, but...just...why?

 

[Trig0n]

You know I was expecting something more along the lines of testicle shaped dog tags and dong shaped guns. Seems more CoD's speed anyway.

EDIT: More on topic anyway that weed sight just looks god awful. I can't imagine trying to aim with that. Maybe it's to simulate the effects of aiming while doped up. Hell if I know.

 

[Mahorfeus]

Yes, god forbid that they make use of some self-referential pun humor. Never mind all the other silly nonsense you can spatter all over your guns in this game.

I've been more offended (that is, not at all) by some of the hats in Team Fortress 2.

 

[RJ 17]

The general feeling is "if booze and cigarettes are legal, why not weed?"

I'm not touching the actual argument about weed itself with a ten-foot barge-pole, but I want to go on an ever-so-slight tangent with this. In the UK (well, probably only England and Wales given the devolution of health control), the British Medical Association is calling for the gradual, phased-out banning of smoking (anyone born after 2000, iirc, would not be able to buy cigarettes full stop, so current smokers would not be punished but no one else could *legally* buy cigarettes and therefore theoretically start smoking). If this were to go ahead (unlikely, but people said the same thing about the indoor smoking ban initially), it would create a situation where only alcohol was legal (not tobacco) - would that alter the argument for the legalisation of cannabis (as it would become the only thing allowed to be smoked if so)?

I doubt it. Maybe if that kind of phasing out was being done for alcohol. By comparison it'd be more relevant to weed than cigarettes because both weed and beer are intoxicating. That's what the basis for that argument is: "if it's perfectly legal to get drunk, why is it illegal to get high?" Just slap the same restrictions on it (no driving while high, have to be 21 to buy pot, etc), tax it, and use it to help finance the deficit.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I love puns, so I approve of the name. What I don't approve of is that they seem to just be releasing a bunch of skin packs to milk more money from the players. It hardly seems fair for me to place the blame entirely on Activision though, since these things only work if people actually reward them for it by buying them.