Sales of Call of Duty are disappointing.
Analysts are calling this trend “a cause for concern” for Activision-Blizzard as the Call of Duty franchise is responsible of 45% of Activision's earnings.
Players and reviewers have become increasingly complacent regarding the latest Call of Duty releases, going so far as to call Treyarch and Infinity Ward, lazy. Shorter single player campaigns and the same old game engine being the most common complaints.
David Vondehaar recently had to defend the use of an ancient (in gaming years) gaming engine. “Anybody who comes at the engine needs to remember it's the 60 frames they love in the first place," he asserted. "And we can make it beautiful - that's through years and years of working with the engine, improving upon it and improving the pipeline and improving our approach, our lighting rendering.”
"People like to talk about the engine, but the truth of the matter is that this isn't like something that was invented six years ago. At this point that engine doesn't resemble anything like any engine - we've ripped out the UI system, the rendering and the lighting are all new, the core gameplay systems are all new.”
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Da_BombPosted:
Oh really apparently Activision didn't learn from when they drove Guitar Hero into the ground. We want quality games, releasing the same game with a new title every year is not what consumers want. Take a year off, make something new.
mitchhackerxPosted:
Craig- It doesn't matter if you get 60 fps because battlefield for the Xbox one of my favourite engines and has great fps.
You call sluggish 20-30 fps good?
If cod had the fps that BF3 on consoles had, it would not be near as fun.
TTG_BausManPosted:
I think these devs are trying too hard. What made CoD 4 so good was its simplicity, they screwed up they listened to the community. I haven't bought a CoD game since Black Ops, and i think a lot of people are gonna keep moving away from the game. Just when you think that it cant get any worse, they release a new one that proves you wrong :/
xSTaTiCBLuExPosted:
Who the **** gives a shit about lighting? Just make a game that is fun like cod4 and waw, not a game that is silly and frustrating like BO2, MW3 and BO
OasisPosted:
They always go on about the lighting, like we actually give a crap. Gameplay over visuals every day of the week Activision!
JawaPosted:
It's pointless for them to make a whole new game engine as the 360 won't be around much longer and they don't even know the specs of the new consoles coming out to know their limits.
BoylerBehPosted:
It doesn't matter if you get 60 fps because battlefield for the Xbox one of my favourite engines and has great fps.
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