Call of Duty is treading where few live service games dare go. As part of this week's launch of Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2 Season 3, a new cosmetic bundle that grants significant gameplay advantages in DMZ mode has appeared, and more are coming. Players are declaring this a move toward Warzone 2 becoming "pay-to-win," and they're not wrong.
The first bundle to include what Activision's calling a "DMZ boost" is the $12 EOD Specialist bundle for Fender. At a glance the bundle is just a forgettable operator skin with a "pro-tuned" LMG blueprint, but equip them in Warzone's extraction mode, DMZ, and they become a lot more valuable—players with the EOD operator skin are automatically given a free medium backpack, and the LMG comes with a special 15-minute insured cooldown after dying (much shorter than a free gun's 2-hour penalty).
