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As Battlefield 6 commits to 'keeping it grounded' with skins, Call of Duty director makes an unconvincing promise to 'calibrate' cosmetics in Black Ops 7

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Activision is taking complaints "seriously," but not seriously enough to share any specific changes to the status quo.

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We're set for another Call of Duty vs. Battlefield face-off this year, and it's already been fascinating to watch how these two military shooters present themselves. When it comes to one of the most incendiary topics in multiplayer games at the moment, the rising prevalence of goofy Fortnite-style skins, Call of Duty has become the poster child of ugliness run amok.

The growing exhaustion over incongruent cosmetics that erode Call of Duty's art style is what prompted Battlefield Studios' stance on skins in Battlefield 6: "It has to be grounded. That is what BF3 and BF4 was—it was all soldiers, on the ground. It's going to be like this. I don't think it needs Nicki Minaj. Let's keep it real, keep it grounded."

Time will tell if Battlefield 6 actually sticks to that mission statement—the allure of tacky crap might be irresistible when enough players are eager to buy them—but it's telling that, given the same opportunity to renew its stance on cosmetics, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 developers were decidedly wishy-washy about the whole thing.

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"We have thought about this, and I think if you look at us, we're always looking at community feedback”, Treyarch associate creative director Miles Leslie told IGN in an interview ahead of today's Blops 7 reveals.

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