Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard took a big bite with some ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s promotional skins, and scalpers are now making use of the skins' relative scarcity by flipping them for hefty prices on online marketplaces. With the in-game store currently still in maintenance mode ahead of the game’s Season 1 launch, one of the few sources of Operator character skins are the promotional codes from Burger King and other such franchises.
With that in mind, there are manyCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2players that are eager to stand out on the virtual battlefields while these promo keys are still available on the market. The Burger King promotion, specifically, is only available in 39 countries, with the list excluding the US and the UK. This makes it even more interesting to players in these markets, and since they can’t just go out to order a Big Whopper to get theirCODOperator, they need to look for alternatives.
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Serving as a sort of alternative to theModern Warfare 2Jack Link’s promo, the Burger King Operator is highly sought-after at this time, and scalpers appear to have identified this new niche as a potential source of income. Namely, there have been several unique listings on eBay that ask between $20 and $35 for the activation code, with the highest listing so far having been sold for $40 total. Since the skin’s not region-locked, US and UK-based players can purchase and use it just fine, no matter where the code initially originated from.
Odds are that this Burger King craze is likely to subside when Season 1 begins inModern Warfare 2, on November 16, as that’s when Activision Blizzard and Infinity Ward will begin releasing a greater selection of Operator skins for players to unlock and/or purchase. Theleaked soccer Operators forModern Warfare 2, for example, are sure to be a hit, and they are highly unlikely to be locked behind a promotion such as this one.
Of course, it’s worth keeping in mind that Infinity Ward does have bigger problems at hand than dealing with Operator skin scalping, as it were. There’s a huge array of bugs and crashes present in the game right now, andcertainModern Warfare 2bugs effectively give players wallhacks, to boot. These problems are apparently being tracked at this time, but it remains to be seen how long it takes for the devs to fix them up.
Setting the launch-day problems aside for a bit, thisCall of Dutyrelease appears to be particularly exciting for veteran players.Modern Warfare 2’s huge list of weaponsat launch day, for one, suggests that this game might have one of the biggest arsenals in the franchise before all is said and done, and once all the crashes and game-breaking bugs are resolved, players are bound to have a field day.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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