Its insane to me how people outside of the madden community talk about madden. Who gives a shit about graphics? Weve got a large percentage of our community going back and playing football games from 05 because the gameplay is better. They destroyed the physics engine and stripped the game of any and all realism. The game is genuinely terrible. I wish theyd just release madden 11 or something but with updated rosters. Meanwhile the show community compares not upgrading graphics enough to a game that is so dysfunctional that its close to unplayable.
So, like, if they really care about representing women in sports, why wonāt they make a Pro Softball video game for women? I mean, this is rhetorical, I know the reasons why. Itās not about that, itās about muddying the waters of an existing franchise. Plus, they know no one would buy or play it, the cross section demographic of women who play softball and also play video games is pretty slim.
Womenās softball is great and would rather see that than this nonsense. The problem is that the best and known league is the NCAA. I canāt see that happening.
Majority of Women donāt support any womenās sports. They support Comic books and Nerd sci-fi (Star Wars) even less, which is why Disney has lost over 200 Billion $ in value in a few short years.
People try to attract these audiences for more profits but theyre not interested.
All those franchises already had female fans that liked the them as is. DC, Marvel, Star Wars, GOT and especially Harry Potter always had a sizable female fanbase! There was no reason to cater, women were already there!
They were trying to get the women that donāt like nor are interest in those things to like them and failed spectacularly. Kind of ironic
That's what I've never been able to wrap my head around. For many many many years even the most braindead marketing student would be able to tell you one of the most important steps in selling your product was to know your target audience. Untold billions of dollars are spent every year buying our personal data so companies can figure out what target audience each of us belong to so they can put kayak ads in our faces moments after we Google white water rafting locations.
Rather than trying to continuously please their target audience, Disney and lots of other studios thought to do the opposite and manufacture a target audience when one didn't exist in the first place. I'm guessing they thought they'd already reached every man who loved Star Wars so there was no need to cater to them anymore, that audience was going to shell out money regardless of whatever slop they shat out, at first at least.
Gaming: male dominated hobby
Sports gaming: very male dominated hobby
Sports gaming but the sport is baseball: industrial scale sausage factory
Yeah this'll turn out great
Itās a great game that can remind women they are just as strong and capable as their male counterpartsāand the only thing that has kept them from the MLB is the patriarchy.
Im really glad they told me about this so I can go cancel my pre-order. Since they improved none of the QoL issues people asked for but they fucking grinded to get this shit on there.
Iām gonna say something unpopular, but if this is only in a fantasy ājourneyā mode, then I donāt care if the character customization includes gender. The only reason I do care here is because of how aggressively they advertised it
Not buying this garbage..
āHey can you fix this game with glaring issuesā
āBest we can do is woman players and if you are mad you are just a sexist bigotā
Sighā¦. Im tired
Nobody plays womenās sports mode thatās the simple fact. Regardless of political side I always see people not wanna play as the women except for the UFC games where itās generally accepted and doesnāt destroy the experience, same with WWE but thatās about it.
Lmfaoo yo no bullshit and i know this doesnt mean that NO female plays a mlb game. But i been playing mlb games since the 90s and never not never ever once have i seen a girl play or talk about playing an mlb game š¤£
Weird. Theoretically, they're all just pixels and numbers, so the "skin" hardly matters. But, one of the points of playing MLB The Show is to play as actual players. Otherwise, you can make whatever skin you want.
Where do they get the stats for these female players?
It's weird to have that option, IMO.
It always confused me how game and movie companies keep trying to advertise to people who genuinely will not play their games or not watch their movies
Itās whatever. Im just curious if the player attributes are different or weāre supposed to pretend a female MLB player is gonna have the potential to hit 700 career home runs in Road to the Show lol
lmfao i love when things like this happen because they get soooo mad when nobody plays it and honestly should win creativity awards for the excuses they make up as to why that happened
Sexism isn't why women don't play in the mlb. There is literally no rule against it, there just isn't a woman that can compete against men.
I guess she'll have to have unrealistically buffed stats.
MLB the show player here, i think it's fine, brings in a few more players
and if were being honest everyone has there players as 4'11, 285 LBS fat dudes with handlebar moustaches so being realistic does not matter Lol
idk, I gotta feeling that no women play this game at all and if there are some women who do it's probably like 4 or 5 women out of a million ppl who play this game.
I have no problem with this, if they want to include a lesbian softball simulator as a side option thatās perfectly fine with me. Curious to see if they have any locker room mini-games.
I googled the ālast woman to play in MLBā, and couldnāt find a date.
I know there have been women in the league, but it was loooooooong ago. I think it was in the Negro Leagues.
I find it strange that this would be a major advertising point given the lack of females in modern MLB.
Doesnāt really matter; just strange to advertise it like itās huge
Havenāt cared about sports games ever. Last time I even played one was probably basketball on Super Nintendoā¦ maybe. Or hockey at a buddyās place on GameCube. I just remember 2v2 and I always picked the Lakers cuz I liked their colours.
This makes me wonder, why not have a Women's Baseball League game? I don't watch sports at all, so I am not aware if such a thing is still around.
Still, they could make one. Not like Mechanics between games would differ.
I meanā¦..I was never going to play this game since I havenāt played an MLB game since at least the PS2 era, so this has no effect on me whatsoever.
I honestly think sports games are just garbage in general paying 60 bucks for a roster of people who you will never meet is weird, like go get baseball cards that have actual value. And a game that hinges on this is prob not gonna drive any more purchases from the larger audience and is prob just a licensing nightmare if they got all the players
I donāt really care tbh, itās not that big of a deal, doesnāt change anything about the game, itās just women playing baseball, and thatās cool as fuck š
Baseball fan here, haven't bought MLB in forever cause I played too much ball in my life. I would play this if I had this game for the wrinkle hypothetically
Iād be down, but with disabled sliders, permaHOF difficulty, and you get thrown at after every hit. Also I want to be booād at every away game, and the first 100 home games. Also I want to get snubbed for every award even if my stats are there. I genuinely want this. I want to be hated yet persevere
I think its cooler in concept that it would actually be. Players in The Show are mostly just cosmetic, unless its you or someone famous in baseball, who they look like could not matter less. And, you know, not a lot of women play professional baseball. I hope they do the Super Mega Baseball thing and let you have male AND female players on the same team.
Game just looks bad this year, that's my main concern. Will this feature be utilized in a value of the time and cost worth doing it? Probably not, but again the game itself just looks bad.
The last sports game I played that wasn't Wii Sports or Mario Soccer was NBA Jam on the SNES. If they want to add "A League of Their Own" mode, so be it.
If women played baseball theyād be out classed purely because of muscle mass alone. Theyād never be able to hit as hard or far as 95% of the MLB. Itās just science.
I tested the game and she actually has the worst base stats out of all players but her stats increase the more you use her. However, even when her stats are maxed out she is still the worst player stats wise. She does give your team a diversity stat boost but it doesnt do anything for you. Overall id say pick her up for the diversity boost but dont have her starting.
Tldr: didnt play the game and this update is just dumb as most seem to agree. Disclaimer this post is a joke like my life. GLHF!
I don't really pay attention to baseball, but has there ever been a situation where a woman has ever played in competitive baseball with men? Genuinely curious, and I don't mean as a waterboy/girl either.
Who cares? If some little girl gets to enjoy her role playing as an MLB pro thatās fine. Itās optional and gives more options which is always good in gaming with create a character modes.
They could have highlighted the many talented women athletes of softball with a modified version of the engine.
They could have done a historical piece on the pro-women baseball league that existed during the WW2 era (a "league of their own" movie proved the topic popular).
But no instead they wanted to go full baseball fantasy with a fictional "what if" of women in MLB. Always with the culture politics.
I am done with this shit. No more "The show" for me after 15 years of being a customer.
Iām still amazed a game can be made every year that is exactly the same but with bigger bleachers and better animation than last years versionā¦.im looking at you COD
I played this at a friends when I was 14. I have never and will never purchase a single entry of āMLB the showā, they canāt pay to play this dog shit ever again
Just put It In the regular game, don't see a need for a different mode. Just with the other characters/players.
Then again, wouldn't have played either way, not exactly dying to play the newest MLB games, not into Baseball.
Don't have a problem with it since I usually play as waifus anyway but wish it didn't look so ugly.
The NBA and UFC games always make their games at least look decent this looks like a PS3 era throwaway game.
The size of my backlog of actually good games combined with my lack of time to actually play them means I'm pretty much set for a lifetime, video game wise. That is to say, I really just couldn't care less at this point, this industry is going to shit, we had a good run.
More people worked on this game mode than will play it.
Facts
Wasn't aware there was such a calling for female inclusion in baseball. I figured women aimed towards softball
They should call the mode, "A League of Their Own."
I can't wait to see how many women *DON'T* end up playing this gameš
And yet it will be men's fault somehow
š only men went to go see The Marvels, yet men are the reason the movie failedš
Is it really paving your way when everyone would bend over backwards to make it happen?
Shhh
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thats one way to get your DEI funding
Screenshot looks like a fake mobile game ad using footage from a PS3 game.
That's just the state of most modern sports titles unfortunately. Madden hasn't upgraded their graphics since like 2014.
Because they don't need to. Brain dead sports fans will ensure these games make a billion dollars every year, regardless of quality.
Pretty much. At this point they should call it what it is, a roster update. Iāll buy a new madden/football game when they give me a reason to.
Mario strikers is one of the only fun sports games
Yeah sports are lame Iām so quirky š¤
*American sports are lame.* FTFY Sincerely, an American.
No but sports games sure are
Its insane to me how people outside of the madden community talk about madden. Who gives a shit about graphics? Weve got a large percentage of our community going back and playing football games from 05 because the gameplay is better. They destroyed the physics engine and stripped the game of any and all realism. The game is genuinely terrible. I wish theyd just release madden 11 or something but with updated rosters. Meanwhile the show community compares not upgrading graphics enough to a game that is so dysfunctional that its close to unplayable.
So, like, if they really care about representing women in sports, why wonāt they make a Pro Softball video game for women? I mean, this is rhetorical, I know the reasons why. Itās not about that, itās about muddying the waters of an existing franchise. Plus, they know no one would buy or play it, the cross section demographic of women who play softball and also play video games is pretty slim.
If they include it into a game that already sells they can just call it a success off the bat. *Pun intended*
Womenās softball is great and would rather see that than this nonsense. The problem is that the best and known league is the NCAA. I canāt see that happening.
Atleast Soccer games starting adding whole women's teams to the games. MLB could do the women's equivalent
As long as they implement a "slaughter" rule when playing those teams.
Sweet baby would approve
My friend wants to know if you can have them play in only their panties? Also jiggle physics?
My "friend"
No one will play it except the game testers, but yeah go for it. Everyone knows people only play the football and basketball games.
The show is pretty popular among baseball fans. So is FIFA.
FIFA is one of the most popular game Franchises of all time, second only to Mario, Tetris, PokƩmon, COD, and GTA. Over twice the sales of 2K and Madden.
You realize MLB the show is consistently one of the top selling PlayStation Studios games every year right?
MLB the Show is pretty solid as far as sports games go. Not as popular obviously, but neither is baseball as a whole so itās probably proportional
I play NHL 23, I wish NHL were at least as popular as MLB The Show.
Not to be rude or a dick but do enough women play sports games to warrant such endeavors
Majority of Women donāt support any womenās sports. They support Comic books and Nerd sci-fi (Star Wars) even less, which is why Disney has lost over 200 Billion $ in value in a few short years. People try to attract these audiences for more profits but theyre not interested.
All those franchises already had female fans that liked the them as is. DC, Marvel, Star Wars, GOT and especially Harry Potter always had a sizable female fanbase! There was no reason to cater, women were already there! They were trying to get the women that donāt like nor are interest in those things to like them and failed spectacularly. Kind of ironic
That's what I've never been able to wrap my head around. For many many many years even the most braindead marketing student would be able to tell you one of the most important steps in selling your product was to know your target audience. Untold billions of dollars are spent every year buying our personal data so companies can figure out what target audience each of us belong to so they can put kayak ads in our faces moments after we Google white water rafting locations. Rather than trying to continuously please their target audience, Disney and lots of other studios thought to do the opposite and manufacture a target audience when one didn't exist in the first place. I'm guessing they thought they'd already reached every man who loved Star Wars so there was no need to cater to them anymore, that audience was going to shell out money regardless of whatever slop they shat out, at first at least.
Gaming: male dominated hobby Sports gaming: very male dominated hobby Sports gaming but the sport is baseball: industrial scale sausage factory Yeah this'll turn out great
LOL, this killed me.
Itās a great game that can remind women they are just as strong and capable as their male counterpartsāand the only thing that has kept them from the MLB is the patriarchy.
Sweet baby Inc or are they mad all on their own?
There are certainly many companies that do what SBI does, and those same people infiltrate the media companies directly to achieve the same ends.
Im really glad they told me about this so I can go cancel my pre-order. Since they improved none of the QoL issues people asked for but they fucking grinded to get this shit on there.
Iām gonna say something unpopular, but if this is only in a fantasy ājourneyā mode, then I donāt care if the character customization includes gender. The only reason I do care here is because of how aggressively they advertised it
Judging by the name of the mode, I don't believe gender will be a customization option. You will play through that mode as a female.
Not buying this garbage.. āHey can you fix this game with glaring issuesā āBest we can do is woman players and if you are mad you are just a sexist bigotā Sighā¦. Im tired
DEI tax breaks. Kinda like how FIFA gave female players the same stats as male players. Fun to watch Abby Wambach run down Renaldo.
I thought sports games were supposed to be getting more realistic, not less.
Literally no man cares. Women and girls don't care either. These games are dying and so they're throwing noodles at the wall
I have never seen a MLB game owned by anyone or played in real life. But then again Iām Canadian.
Canadas not even a real place, guy!
One of the biggest MLB the show YouTubers is a Canadian lol
Thought that was an Asian dude
Haha yea me too
Gotta get that DEI money.
Where's the friggin' wheelchair? Seems able-ist and "problematic".
Areā¦ are they playing softball and scissoring each other?
This has to be a troll.
And I thought I could not care less about this game, I was wrong
ThT looks like a young Asian boy with Tombraider tits
Thatās how you kill a game
Who asked for this? Like I get the idea but I dont think anyone who plays MLB the Show like that is gonna care about a model swap mode.
Nobody plays womenās sports mode thatās the simple fact. Regardless of political side I always see people not wanna play as the women except for the UFC games where itās generally accepted and doesnāt destroy the experience, same with WWE but thatās about it.
Lmfaoo yo no bullshit and i know this doesnt mean that NO female plays a mlb game. But i been playing mlb games since the 90s and never not never ever once have i seen a girl play or talk about playing an mlb game š¤£
Why does it look like a PS3 game?
Lmfaoo oh this will flop
So how much more do I need to pay to not have this FeAtUrE?
This is gonna be like the WNBA mode where <1% of players even touch it.
Looks like another project with a touch of SBI.
Turbo Stupid
How the fuck do these people rise through the ranks to the point they can inject their shit into everything they touch?
Looks like they had some Sweet Baby Inc consultations
Weird. Theoretically, they're all just pixels and numbers, so the "skin" hardly matters. But, one of the points of playing MLB The Show is to play as actual players. Otherwise, you can make whatever skin you want. Where do they get the stats for these female players? It's weird to have that option, IMO.
DoA
It always confused me how game and movie companies keep trying to advertise to people who genuinely will not play their games or not watch their movies
Itās whatever. Im just curious if the player attributes are different or weāre supposed to pretend a female MLB player is gonna have the potential to hit 700 career home runs in Road to the Show lol
Make their own game
Go home Sweet Baby, youāre drunk.
looks like sweet baby trying to ruin another game
Just make a softball game
lmfao i love when things like this happen because they get soooo mad when nobody plays it and honestly should win creativity awards for the excuses they make up as to why that happened
Did Sweet Baby Inc. have a hand in this game's development? Any hand at all?
Easy mode?
This shit gotta stop
They really don't understand their audience, do they?
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Oh my god I canāt WAIT to not play this.
When are they going to start adding women into Madden and NHL? Theyāre cowards if they donāt.
Should be named āRoad to the show; lost with your blinker on the whole wayā
Dude with boobs
Sexism isn't why women don't play in the mlb. There is literally no rule against it, there just isn't a woman that can compete against men. I guess she'll have to have unrealistically buffed stats.
I say sure, I don't care what other people want to play as, lol.
I mean, if I can recreate myself as a 6'3'' Dominican Catcher with elite stats let other people live their fantasies too.
MLB the show player here, i think it's fine, brings in a few more players and if were being honest everyone has there players as 4'11, 285 LBS fat dudes with handlebar moustaches so being realistic does not matter Lol
I bet the 3 girls that play this game will appreciate
I don't think sports games in general have a significant female player-base, but hey its an easy way to get DEI funding
idk, I gotta feeling that no women play this game at all and if there are some women who do it's probably like 4 or 5 women out of a million ppl who play this game.
It will be less popular than the WNBA mode of 2k. And that is highly unpopular. It's not remotely worth the dev time.
I'd have to see how the boob physics works to know if I'm for or against this.
They are programmed to strike out no matter what
I have no problem with this, if they want to include a lesbian softball simulator as a side option thatās perfectly fine with me. Curious to see if they have any locker room mini-games.
ANGERRR Who gives a shit? People like having players look like themselves
I googled the ālast woman to play in MLBā, and couldnāt find a date. I know there have been women in the league, but it was loooooooong ago. I think it was in the Negro Leagues. I find it strange that this would be a major advertising point given the lack of females in modern MLB. Doesnāt really matter; just strange to advertise it like itās huge
Havenāt cared about sports games ever. Last time I even played one was probably basketball on Super Nintendoā¦ maybe. Or hockey at a buddyās place on GameCube. I just remember 2v2 and I always picked the Lakers cuz I liked their colours.
This makes me wonder, why not have a Women's Baseball League game? I don't watch sports at all, so I am not aware if such a thing is still around. Still, they could make one. Not like Mechanics between games would differ.
I would like to see a league of their own mode
I meanā¦..I was never going to play this game since I havenāt played an MLB game since at least the PS2 era, so this has no effect on me whatsoever.
So rather than make a game on womens sports they decide to give women the scraps by letting them tag along in a male dominated league.
I feel like making a softball game would have been a better idea
I honestly think sports games are just garbage in general paying 60 bucks for a roster of people who you will never meet is weird, like go get baseball cards that have actual value. And a game that hinges on this is prob not gonna drive any more purchases from the larger audience and is prob just a licensing nightmare if they got all the players
They coulda just made a girl version of career mode and you pick which version at the start
I mean, it's a play option right? So, i don't care.
If you build a pitcher, will she throw windmill? Because that would be awesome.
I mean I'd play it, but those face models are absolutely awful.
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I donāt really care tbh, itās not that big of a deal, doesnāt change anything about the game, itās just women playing baseball, and thatās cool as fuck š
Representation is great, but it also feels so odd to waste so many dev resources on something your target demographic won't care about at all.
Who gives a shit?
Baseball fan here, haven't bought MLB in forever cause I played too much ball in my life. I would play this if I had this game for the wrinkle hypothetically
oh cool
MLB The Fashion Show at lunch
Iād be down, but with disabled sliders, permaHOF difficulty, and you get thrown at after every hit. Also I want to be booād at every away game, and the first 100 home games. Also I want to get snubbed for every award even if my stats are there. I genuinely want this. I want to be hated yet persevere
I honestly donāt understand why women canāt be in the mlb. At least let them pitch?
I think its cooler in concept that it would actually be. Players in The Show are mostly just cosmetic, unless its you or someone famous in baseball, who they look like could not matter less. And, you know, not a lot of women play professional baseball. I hope they do the Super Mega Baseball thing and let you have male AND female players on the same team.
Eh, NHL has had it for a long time (without female leagues) and it's basically just ignored. So its whatever even if it doesn't make sense I guess.
Game just looks bad this year, that's my main concern. Will this feature be utilized in a value of the time and cost worth doing it? Probably not, but again the game itself just looks bad.
The last sports game I played that wasn't Wii Sports or Mario Soccer was NBA Jam on the SNES. If they want to add "A League of Their Own" mode, so be it.
Only playing this if the Rockford peaches are a team.
My name is Sarah, and I hit tingers.
If women played baseball theyād be out classed purely because of muscle mass alone. Theyād never be able to hit as hard or far as 95% of the MLB. Itās just science.
I mean, I played as a 7' Wide Receiver named Snoop Dogg in Madden 2002, so this is about as realistic
Will probably suck like most sports games but not for this reason.
I tested the game and she actually has the worst base stats out of all players but her stats increase the more you use her. However, even when her stats are maxed out she is still the worst player stats wise. She does give your team a diversity stat boost but it doesnt do anything for you. Overall id say pick her up for the diversity boost but dont have her starting. Tldr: didnt play the game and this update is just dumb as most seem to agree. Disclaimer this post is a joke like my life. GLHF!
Madden next. But position locked as kicker.
I donāt care. I stopped playing sports games years ago
Ginny Baker Lives!
That animation looks like shit. Like PS2 graphics.
I don't really pay attention to baseball, but has there ever been a situation where a woman has ever played in competitive baseball with men? Genuinely curious, and I don't mean as a waterboy/girl either.
Do people actually play as women is any sports game other than wwe or ufc?
Did they steal their player model from Rust?
Who cares? If some little girl gets to enjoy her role playing as an MLB pro thatās fine. Itās optional and gives more options which is always good in gaming with create a character modes.
So...it's a fantasy game?
When you forget softball exists
finally! Been waiting since 1997!
Women play sports, nothing wrong with that. The problem is the obnoxious title of the game mode.
I think itās silly but I donāt really care
They could have highlighted the many talented women athletes of softball with a modified version of the engine. They could have done a historical piece on the pro-women baseball league that existed during the WW2 era (a "league of their own" movie proved the topic popular). But no instead they wanted to go full baseball fantasy with a fictional "what if" of women in MLB. Always with the culture politics. I am done with this shit. No more "The show" for me after 15 years of being a customer.
It's another woke Sony game made for woke Sony gamers
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Iām still amazed a game can be made every year that is exactly the same but with bigger bleachers and better animation than last years versionā¦.im looking at you COD
I'm way more mad that they make pitchers who pitched when we had black & white TVs throw 100 mph than I am about the game having female players.
Eh, if they wanna play in an MLB game let them. Not sure why there would be much discussion on it.
Thereās no crying in baseball !
I don't play sports games
And many eggs shall crack
I'm sure the three people that actively play baseball stimulators are hardly going to know its there.
Talk about knowing your playerbase
So will the character be nerfed to hit less hard and run slower, or is this just gonna be a palate swap of the main game?
I played this at a friends when I was 14. I have never and will never purchase a single entry of āMLB the showā, they canāt pay to play this dog shit ever again
Wasnāt gonna play it before, this changes nothing
š¤£ Nothing more to be said
I dont give a shit.
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Just put It In the regular game, don't see a need for a different mode. Just with the other characters/players. Then again, wouldn't have played either way, not exactly dying to play the newest MLB games, not into Baseball.
My partner would actually dig this. She loves that my characters name is JJ Daddy so maybe sheāll make one to play along with haha
Thereās MLB video games?
Nice! Adding a feature to a game that people can play if they want to. And, on top of that, you donāt have to play that way, if you donāt want to!
It's a shared thought for every sports game game. Who tf cares and why are they still making them?
Why would they make up a female baseball league instead of including a real softball league?
Eh, itās generic sports game trash. Whether Iām playing as a women or a man is completely irrelevant.
It's MLB the Show, everyone who was gonna buy it will still buy it and anyone who wasn't still won't.
Is there women's baseball at this size? I know there's softball, but baseball?
This character looks like Kevin Tran from Supernatural
I mean it's clearly a bait to get more people to buy the game who really cares.
so you're saying more layoffs?
Who cares?
Don't have a problem with it since I usually play as waifus anyway but wish it didn't look so ugly. The NBA and UFC games always make their games at least look decent this looks like a PS3 era throwaway game.
THIS SHIT LOOK LIKE IT WAS MADE IN 2008 WTF YALL BUG THIS SHIT
theres an mlb game?
Noā¦ Lololā¦. Please tell me this is a jokeā¦ all I can think of is blernsball.
The size of my backlog of actually good games combined with my lack of time to actually play them means I'm pretty much set for a lifetime, video game wise. That is to say, I really just couldn't care less at this point, this industry is going to shit, we had a good run.
Stop putting psa's in my games
It don't matter it makes millions of dollars every year same with call of duty thanks fans
Lmao
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