Louder for those in the back — Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is NOT launching early

I feel like I've written this post before, because I sort of have. Rumors have been swirling in recent times about Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launching early, and they're not stopping.

The last rumor wasn't even fully bought into by the person releasing it, and the latest, well that seems to be nothing more than a case of a mistake somewhere in PlayStation's systems.

Activision has confirmed to the CharlieIntel folks over at Dexerto that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 will still launch on November 14. That's 11 days from the time I write this. And that's it.

There's absolutely nothing to this 'story.' Everything we've heard, everything other outlets have heard, always pointed in the same direction. It pointed at November 14.

So where's this latest kerfuffle come from? A post on X by PlayStation Game Size which gets its information from PlayStation data sent folks into a frenzy.

In this instance, it looks like a simple case of a typo. For one, the same post said multiplayer would be dropping on November 17, which is three days further on from the announced November 14 release date.

Things weren't helped by a (now rectified) post from Forbes which claimed an early access period, but also decided to throw in some additional incorrect information whereby standard edition owners will get a season of Blackcell thrown in.

That's not true as it currently stands, with Blackcell only included in the Vault Edition or the Vault Edition upgrade for Xbox Game Pass players.

That's not to say folks don't want it to launch early. Since the beta started, I wanted them to just keep it running until just before launch. Going back to Black Ops 6 after it was pretty tough, so much so I've eventually just given up, and I'm playing Battlefield 6 REDSEC until Black Ops 7.

Considering everyone's apparently deserted Call of Duty for Battlefield 6 anyway, it sure does seem like there's a lot of people who really want it to drop early. In any case, it isn't, so let's just move along, and wait it out. It's less than two weeks away.

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