Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

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• Not recommended Posted November 22, 2025 on Steam Activision is abusing the steam refund policy by combining play time from all COD games. Don't buy this game, you can't return it. They make it seem like you've played hundreds of hours so you can't return it even though it CRASHES CONSTANTLY
• Not recommended Posted November 14, 2025 on Steam You can't even pause the Black Ops 7 campaign because it's designed like Warzone; it's a disaster. They messed everything up. To top it all off, you have to play in co-op and they give you experience for both multiplayer and Warzone. They absolutely messed everything up. THE GAME KICKS YOU FOR GOING AFK IN CAMPAIGN MODE!! IT KICKS YOU, I REPEAT, IT KICKS YOU!!! And if you resubmit the level, it makes you start from scratch; it doesn't let you continue from where you left off, because since it's designed for Warzone, it's a new game from the beginning.
• Not recommended Posted November 17, 2025 on Steam Don't buy it, it's terrible. Don't support this lazy and money-greedy company under any circumstances.
• Not recommended Posted March 2, 2026 on Steam This game is the worst call of duty I have ever played. I spent 45 minutes in game before trying to request a refund just for them to deny the refund because "you have played more than 2 hours". This is all because they made this a DLC and not its own game even tho it is completely its own game AND download. This is absolutely absurd. Activision knew what they were doing making it a DLC to prevent refunds. Insane tactic. F you Activision
• Not recommended Posted November 19, 2025 on Steam During the lead up to Black Ops 7's release, Call of Duty made a big deal about the discontinuation of carry forward, the cancellation of collaborative cosmetics, and removal of SBMM from casual playlists. Turns out that this was nothing but a smokescreen to get people's feet in the door of what may be the laziest video game ever produced. Black Ops 7's multiplayer barely innovates on its predecessor. While Omni-movement remains an under-utilized gimmick, the addition of wall jumping does add a useful tool for navigating combat. Unfortunately, the multiplayer maps are scared to properly utilize the mechanic to its fullest potential like we saw with wall-running in Black Ops 3, and some maps don't have any real use for it at all. Most egregious among these are the reprisals from Black Ops 2, which dominate the map vote but have not been adapted to the new gameplay mechanics, rendering them all but useless. Add to that the new maps being mediocre at best and abysmal at worst, creating another entry of mediocre multiplayer modes unwilling to innovate their design. I have not played the Zombies mode in my 9 hours of playtime, but considering that I have been playing Call of Duty since 2010, and enjoyed Zombies a whole lot over these past 15 years, the fact that the return of the original Zombies cast failed to drum up any real interest in playing the mode in the slightest does not fill me with confidence. Plus, they decided to make a spiritual successor to TranZit, and I do not recall that map being particularly well-loved. And, of course, the campaign. You have undoubtedly heard things about Black Ops 7's campaign. Whatever you think you know, I assure you it is 10 times worse. The plot is incoherent, and the game's villain is all but non-existent. Not for lack of a villain, mind you, as the game immediately reveals its big plot twist 5 minutes in, but because they play almost zero role in the plot and their evil plan is laughably predictable. The boss fights are all terrible, and all the missions have at least one. Half the time it is some sort of Guild hardware, either a turret or a VTOL or a robot, and the other half its some random Multiplayer operator that teleports whenever you shoot them. Both are terrible. Giant Harper is also terrible, but you've seen Giant Harper. Hilariously enough, the best boss fight is the one that I can only assume was made by someone who really likes fighting the Pyro Regisvine from Genshin Impact, but even that is horrendously bad. The game has 11 missions, with every other mission being walking around the presumably upcoming Warzone map for 20 minutes, a mode whose mechanics are also littered throughout the campaign. The other half the missions are all reused assets, mostly multiplayer maps, and including one egregious example where the game reuses a portion of one of Black Ops 6's campaign missions in Vorkuta. The main cast can barely be considered characters. David Mason continues his previous role of "Standard White Man in a CoD game", Harper has been reduced to rage and one-liners, 50/50 has some vaguely tragic backstory about a massacre in Japan which she was present for for some reason, and Samuels is there. Ironically, the best mission in the game is the one where you play as JSOC's multiplayer operators, who actually have personalities. The Endgame mode is not worth playing the campaign to unlock, and this is coming from someone who played a whole lot of MWII's DMZ. Two final things: 1. This game has an odd obsession with Japan, to the point that it was seemingly the focal point of the game's marketing. This means half the multiplayer maps are inexplicably set in Japan. It's especially odd since they said that this would be the "first Black Ops with maps set in Japan", despite BO2's Magma and BO4's Gridlock being set in Japan. 2. The very big issue: Activision has riddled this game with AI-generated assets. Calling Cards, Prestige icons, and I would not be shocked if it's eventual storefront used AI art as well. There is even speculation that AI was used to write the campaign, but these are unfounded and I'm not sure that I believe it, regardless of how bad it was. Either way, Activision has made it abundantly clear that this was a conscious choice and seemingly has no intentions of changing course. In a year in which DICE and EA did everything in its power to revitalize the public perception of the Battlefield franchise, Call of Duty has decided to cement itself as a pillar to corporate greed and a giant middle finger to the concept of video games as creative works. Activision has actively decided that the most profitable video game franchise in history would be reduced to nothing but slop in favor of making as much money as possible as it reuses assets, plot points, and characters from previous games and screw over its artists as it generates its most intricate 2D assets the series has had for over 15 years. My only hope is that someone at Activision realizes the blight they have created in this medium and the company does a massive course correction in the coming years, but I know that this is a monster created by myself and the millions of others that have bought increasingly lazy CoD games over the past few years. The one good thing to come out of this game is that it has finally succeeded in breaking me free of the Stockholm Syndrome this series has locked me in for the past decade. Small edit to clear up a thing that's come up: I have 9 hours in this game. The reason it says I have 0 hours is because Black Ops 7 boots up through the Call of Duty launcher, since buying this game does not give you the game, but rather access to its files on that application. Hence, all my playtime is on the Call of Duty app, since you can't have playtime on Black Ops 7 specifically since its not an application. Also, for the record, I tried refunding this game 4 times and it was rejected every time. And I expected the game to be the normal amount of bad, hence why I bought it. Accept your cautionary tale.
• Not recommended Posted February 13, 2026 on Steam Cant refund this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ because activision is treating it as a DLC instead of a separate game so if you've played older CODs for more then 2 hours your refund will not be processed since you are outside of the 2 hour requirement. Even though BO7 is its own game. Steam should be ashamed to allow such blatant anti consumer practices plague there store. This game is terrible don't buy it.