User blog comment:Damac1214/Black Ops II Patch Notes + Micro-Transactions on the Way/@comment-3171236-20130312190802/@comment-3171236-20130314001205

No, it wouldn't be Call of Duty's fault, it would be the fault of every single Publisher and Dev that tries to replicate the game.

You see, for the past several years, most of the market has used the Call of Duty games as a business role model. With this Microtransaction stuff, they are opening up a Pandora's Box of Microtransaction flooding every single AAA release available in the near future.