Live-service games like Call of Duty constantly release paid cosmetics like operator skins and weapon blueprints; these microtransactions make up a large portion of the game’s revenue. Since CoD is a military shooter, players have debated the relevance of some of these flashy skins in MW3.

While Modern Warfare 3 does get some grounded character skins with military-inspired outfits, you must have noticed a huge increase in extravagant skins like the one shared by user animal-danimal in the Reddit thread above. The uploader wonders when the developers will stop releasing such “horrible” designs (the one in question here is the new CODFish skin in CoD).

Despite being heavily inspired by realism and military combat, Call of Duty is an arcade shooter with a majority of casual players. Xever_141 astutely noted that because people tend to buy these skins, they keep dropping such bundles in the store. I agree with this sentiment, and so do many others.

Others argue that if a player likes the skin, that’s their choice and no one is stopping them from buying it, and that anyone wearing this shiny skin will stand out and be visible from far away. This makes the skin a disadvantage to use, at least for large-scale modes like Warzone. But people will still equip it because, as mentioned, most players in the game are casuals and don’t care much about these elements.