Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone’s Godzilla x Kong crossover is live, offering fans multiple cosmetics based on the new movie. However, one cosmetic — the Kong BEAST Glove — has sent ripples through the community.
The Kong Glove is a cosmetic-only item that replaces your character's fist with the mechanized glove from the movie. Outside of a unique chest-slamming animation, the cosmetic is a cute addition for fans of the latest MonsterVerse flick.
However, the Modern Warfare 3 Kong BEAST Glove costs a total of $80 to get. To get the glove, players need to buy all four Godzilla x Kong skin packs each priced at $20.
With the glove costing more than full-priced AAA games, which are already planning to move away from a $70 price tag, Call of Duty fans feel shafted by the expensive cosmetic skins. After all, this isn’t a microtransaction, it’s a macrotransaction.
Upon seeing the price for the new glove cosmetic, gamers took to Twitter to complain. Thousands of gamers slammed the BEAST glove with many explain gather could buy AAA games, samurai swords or even real-life replicas of the glove for the same price.
“For 80 dollars you could get TWO copies of Helldivers 2 (at full price!) for you and one of your bros to dive in and help us push back the Automatons,” one gamer said.
“I bought a high-quality real-life carbon steel replica of a fantasy sword for less than this lmao,” said another.
Fans also compared the new glove to the infamous Oblivion horse armor DLC, an early microtransaction that charged $1.99 for horse armor in the aged Elder Scrolls game. While gamers fought hard against the horse armor back in 2007, they’re seemingly fine with CoD, Fortnite and other games’ horrendously overpriced cosmetics.
A viral Reddit thread on the Modern Warfare 3 subreddit also blasted the glove. A fan that bought the new cosmetic revealed their upset at the lack of unique animations, such as a melee uppercut, or the ability to make enemies ragdoll with a single punch.
“OF COURSE it's not worth $80. That's more than the entire game itself,” one fan commented. “Sorry, but it's the people like you that have poured that much money into MTX that has made COD what it is now.”
With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Season 3 launching alongside this new crossover, there has been a slew of new content that’s distracted fans from the egregious and vile pricing of these new cosmetics. With the Call of Duty Kong BEAST glove barely doing anything, it’s disgusting how much Activision is charging for the fist.