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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IamSypezPosted:
the engine was sexxy in mw2 but its true that people get tired of the same thing over and over again
DeadlyDasherPosted:
basedmike has nothing to do with the engine, people are just tired of call of duty. they woke up
Name a games series that started in 2003 or before 2003 that is still going strong. Did all fans of that game just "wake up" too?
Dumbass.
StarifyPosted:
basedmike has nothing to do with the engine, people are just tired of call of duty. they woke up
I agree, there are a lot of unknown fun games that are better than Cod in my opinion.
xXzombiepoisonzXxPosted:
Obviously the sales will be down if more people buy it on the first day/week etc. The more people that buy the game at the start leaves less people to buy it later.
AnkokuPosted:
Ahh well it could be people are just dissapointed in Call of Duty. I was happy for this game and i play it alot. But other people always complaining, people on the internet just need something to BITCH!! about.
basedmikePosted:
has nothing to do with the engine, people are just tired of call of duty. they woke up
DeadlyDasherPosted:
car_two I bet if activision and treyarch actually looked at all the comments and listened. Their games would be a lot better
Treyarch did listen, in BO1 they basically removed quickscoping because of how stupid it was. But all you 13 year old quickscopers started crying and saying BO1 is bad so in BO2 they put it back in.
DeadlyDasherPosted:
ZooPals no other cod game will ever match to cod4 and mw2, thats wat made it all... fans are soon going to admit that its hands down its the bf series is dominating due to the fact that the developers arent lazy **** heads who design a simple game in a year...
BF series is dominating? Lmao you're a dumb ass. Battlefield has less active players on xbox live than Black Ops 2, Black Ops 1, Modern Warfare 3, and Modern Warfare 2. You call that dominating?
And MW2 was terrible. It made it to easy for bad players to do good(one man army noobtubes) but that's probably why you like it lmao.
ZooPalsPosted:
no other cod game will ever match to cod4 and mw2, thats wat made it all... fans are soon going to admit that its hands down its the bf series is dominating due to the fact that the developers arent lazy shit heads who design a simple game in a year...
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