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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SimplyGamerPosted:
Glad they're going down with their bad game just to make money... 3arc is bs ,nuff said.
DeactivatedPosted:
Human this the first CoD i'm not getting at launch since Cod: MW, it looked bad too me from when it was announced.
It's okay actually, think of MW3 and BO's (1) Mixed... But it feels like the game is revolved around "Head-Glitching" theirs like 10 spots on each map :(
tportPosted:
DGR21 The problem is they release a new game every single year. If it was 2-3 years between each game it wouldn't feel like their stuffing it down our throats and they might actually have time to improve it instead of a few minor tweaks. I mean com'on, since '09 it literally has been the exact same game with a different skin. If they are smart they would wait tell next gen consoles to release another, but sadley that ain't going to happen.
I agree it is becoming old but the fact of the matter is every studio is given two years, because they go IW then 3arc but in a way it is the same game all together. I feel though there is two studios with a big name backed up behind them that use the same engine in different ways and still look new and different from each other every time ie. the Frostbite engine, the studios being Danger Close and Dice. Now if each call of duty was different like these two games it might be able to catch on to the community but thats the hard part how do you change a call of duty to not be like a call of duty I mean treyarch adds zombies while IW focuses more attention on the mulitplayer.
DGR21Posted:
The problem is they release a new game every single year. If it was 2-3 years between each game it wouldn't feel like their stuffing it down our throats and they might actually have time to improve it instead of a few minor tweaks. I mean com'on, since '09 it literally has been the exact same game with a different skin. If they are smart they would wait tell next gen consoles to release another, but sadley that ain't going to happen.
IsoPosted:
I'm in shock, by the fact that people are starting to wake up and realise that COD is nothing like it use to be and they are just milking the franchise for the sake of it.
Look where Guitar hero ended up, that's where I see this heading as the last COD game I bought was Black Ops 1, played it for less than 20hours online never to be touched again.
Activision basically put all their eggs in one basket on the hopes that the franchise will last forever without any new IPs because its the 'safe bet'
Look where Guitar hero ended up, that's where I see this heading as the last COD game I bought was Black Ops 1, played it for less than 20hours online never to be touched again.
Activision basically put all their eggs in one basket on the hopes that the franchise will last forever without any new IPs because its the 'safe bet'
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