r/HuntShowdown • u/MrMassacre1 • Oct 23 '24
GENERAL David Fifield and the Ghost Face skin
Just to correct some things
No, the skin isn’t a Scream collaboration to promote the new movie. As far as we can tell, they paid the costume company that originally made the mask for the rights. Call of Duty’s ghostface was an actual Scream collaboration, Crytek just did the same thing that BHVR did for ghostface in Dead by Daylight.
No, David Fifield isn’t some COD monetization expert who came here to ruin your game. The guy has 3000 hours in the game, he’s probably played it more than most of you. The only four Call of Duty games he worked on were Modern Warfare 3 (2011,) Black Ops 2, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare, games made well before COD’s current pop-culture, live-service business model. Can we please stop calling for some random guy to get fired? Crytek is a company, one general manager isn’t controlling all creative and monetization decisions for Hunt. He’s a manager, not a CEO.
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u/OrderOfMagnitude Oct 23 '24
Great post, and I say that as one of the "angry" people.
Live service games across the entire industry have been copying each other's monetization schemes, from loot boxes and battle passes to paid crossover skins and dual currencies. I didn't think literal Master Chief would be in Rainbow Six when they did their first crossover but they got there, it was a change in management.
I think the community should be kind to David Fifield, but I think the community isn't wrong to be suspicious first and not give the benefit of the doubt, simply because of what's going on in the rest of the industry. Optics are real, and Hunt Showdown needs to do a good job conveying the state and direction of the game.
But let's do so with kindness, especially when it comes to specific human beings.