{"id":47341,"date":"2012-11-13T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47341"},"modified":"2012-11-13T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:31:54","slug":"black-ops-2-accidentally-shipped-with-mass-effect-2-disc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47341-black-ops-2-accidentally-shipped-with-mass-effect-2-disc","title":{"rendered":"Black Ops 2 accidentally shipped with Mass Effect 2 disc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure that a lot of people who bought Call of Duty: Black Ops II today aren&#8217;t going to get exactly what they wanted for any number of reasons, but apparently a few people got a totally different game altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Confused PC gamers on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Games\/comments\/13446k\/owners_of_the_pc_version_of_black_ops_2_are\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.steampowered.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=33349751\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.callofduty.com\/message\/413513938\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty community forums<\/a> are complaining that the game&#8217;s installation bombs out on the second disc because it&#8217;s not Activision&#8217;s latest man-shooter at all, it&#8217;s EA&#8217;s space opera RPG Mass Effect 2. <em>Aaaaawkward<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s all a big conspiracy &#8211; ex-Infinity Ward men and Activision arch-nemeses Vince Zampella and Jason West are, of course, now employed over at EA and I can&#8217;t imagine a better marketing opportunity than this. Or maybe it was just a packaging mix-up over at the disc production plant, but that requires no suspension of disbelief whatsoever, and we gamers are all about suspension of disbelief. I mean, come on &#8211; look at all those obviously paid-for reviews Black Ops II has been getting.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/callofduty\/black-ops-2-pc-s-second-disc-copy-mass-effect-2-report-gamers\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamesN<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Call of Duty: Black Ops II review round-up\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47293-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii-review-round-up.html\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty: Black Ops II review round-up<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47280-sa-black-ops-2-pc-servers-confirmed.html\">SA Black Ops 2 PC servers confirmed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47218-call-of-duty-black-ops-2-ban-policy-detailed.html\">Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 ban policy detailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46886-black-ops-ii-zombie-videos-shamble-in.html\">Black Ops II Zombie videos shamble in<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46531-black-ops-2-matchmaking-uses-ping-and-latency-only.html\">Black Ops 2 matchmaking uses ping and latency only<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More like Black Oops<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":47342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1904,3954,3010,4754,175,2615,1841],"class_list":["post-47341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-black-ops-2","tag-black-ops-ii","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops-2","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops-ii","tag-ea","tag-mass-effect-2","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47343,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47341\/revisions\/47343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}