Nick "Nickmercs" Kolcheff said he isn't playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 partly due to a fallout with Activision over his anti-LGBTQ+ comments. Even so, the popular streamer insisted that's not the only reason why he has little interest in picking up Black Ops 6.
In May 2023, Activision unveiled a Nickmercs-inspired operator skin for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and COD: Warzone. A month later, the streamer chimed in on a story about a clash between pro- and anti-LGBTQ+ protesters outside a California school that was voting whether to recognize June as Pride Month. "They should leave little children alone," the content creator tweeted at the time. This stirred up a lot of controversy and promptly resulted in the Nickmercs Call of Duty operator bundle being removed from both Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 drops to 'Mixed' reviews shortly following its release due to a fairly wide variety of issues and complaints.
Some 16 months later, the content creator has no intention of playing the newly released Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, having said as much during a recent livestream. "This is the first year in a...
