PlayStation Players Stung By $80 Price Tag For 16-Year-Old Call of Duty Ports

The Call of Duty franchise is back to its usual tricks as Black Ops 7 enters its twilight period, releasing two classic titles on PlayStation 5. But there's a huge caveat.

Every year, Call of Duty players are hit with a $80 fee to continue playing the most up-to-date release, and attention has begun to be diverted towards its next annual release with Modern Warfare 4.

But before the next instalment in this lucrative franchise arrives, two of the greatest games that the series has ever made are being re-released on PlayStation 5, as Black Ops 1 and 2 are being ported to Sony's modern consoles.

The news broke the internet, with the announcement being Treyarch's most-liked tweet of all time, dwarfing that of the next game trailer.

However, it has now been revealed that this new port will cost players a pretty penny.

Black Ops 1 and 2 PlayStation Ports Cost $80 Each

Ahead of the arrival of both the Black Ops 1 and 2 ports to PlayStation, Activision tweaked the pricing of their old-school games on the Xbox store - currently, the games are available to play on Microsoft's products.

According to CharlieIntel, the base games are being priced at $40 each. Then there are individual DLCs priced at $10 each (four each). As a token of goodwill, the microtransaction skins and camos have been made free.

The games will also be strict ports of the original product, not remastered titles, meaning it'll be the same game you grew up playing 16 years back.

All in all, if you're buying just one of these games in its fullest form, it'll cost you more than Black Ops 7.

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These aren't the official pricings, but having been altered on Xbox, it seems likely that PlayStation will match it.

And for those who bought the games back in 2010 and 2012, it's also likely that you'll still need to buy the new ports, as this isn't a backwards compatibility upgrade.

Sony and Activision haven't announced any cross-buy or free-upgrade program for the Black Ops ports so far, either.

There is a chance that these games get a huge discount, though, or some kind of free trial at least, knowing how popular they will be for the right price.

Still, there is a lot of content crammed into these games that will all become playable again. With stellar campaigns, great multiplayer, and arguably the best Zombies experiences ever made (with up to 7 maps in each title), there is enough to justify a $40 fee.

But in a year crammed with releases, such a high price tag will surely put players off.

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