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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gtapro151Posted:
i myself went back to mw3 thats how bad black ops 2 was for me the first black ops was good
HumanPosted:
this the first CoD i'm not getting at launch since Cod: MW, it looked bad too me from when it was announced.
ObtainPosted:
The reason they haven't changed anything is because people have gotten into this routine of buying this game every year, so Activision isn't losing too much money, but now that it's decreasing at a faster rate they will probably do something about it. Treyarch should take the caampaign and make it more free roam. I think something more sculpted around the players action would attract customers. Also, I think they need to make more Team-Oriented gametypes. The only one that you really need to work as a team on is S&D, other than that none of them have to much teamwork going on. They should make the maps not so predictable, they make it pretty much where you can go down a choice of 4 paths and cross over to each one. Why not open the maps up?
VisionaryMGMTPosted:
"going so far as to call Treyarch and Infinity Ward" I can vouch. Maybe if they weren't, then we wouldn't call them lazy. Just take more time on your game, I mean hell, release a beta. Beta's are for the community to play the game for free, it's so we can tell them to get their shit together in the game.
oohPosted:
It's because people actually expect major changes in the game, yet if they were changed majorly, people would complain about that. I think the game looks pretty good tbh, I don't have it but have been really liking the looks of it. :)
POLYSICSPosted:
Project-x this is because its a good game but a lot of people dont want to spend there own money so you are asking for it for Christmas
My eyes are burning after reading that.
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