Long time lurker, first time poster.

The current state of affairs with this game genuinely upsets me. I have a real personal connection with Warzone 1.0 in Verdansk, having playing it through Covid with my closest friends, one of which has since passed away.

The first 6-12 months of Verdansk were some of the best gaming experiences of my life. The game was new and fresh, but balanced and you could genuinely jump in for a few hours, have fun as a casual, and a good chance of earning a really satisfying win or two if you worked as a team. It genuinely felt like a proper grown up BR game for teenagers and adults after dipping my toe into Apex and Fortnite.

As it stands today, it looks like the sweatiest most infuriating gaming experience you could ever have, not to mention the hideous amount of hacking. I don’t get why people play it, with this much hacking as well as a high chance of being killed by a clown with a bright pink gun, just go play Fortnite?

I’d love to start some sort of campaign encouraging Activision to release “Warzone Day One”. No daft skins, no silly operators, the ability to turn cross play off so console players are equally matched and can’t be plagued by hackers, and just put everything back to how it was when the game first came out. Progression can still be there but make it semi realistic stickers/optics/reticles/high cap mags/operators/vehicle and gun camos etc etc.

Make the game free and charge for battle pass, or even charge a small monthly fee for the game and give people the option to buy a battle pass on top. Everyone I talk to would pay!!!

Would love to hear the thoughts of people that used to play this game and miss it as much as me and my friends do…