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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awaugsPosted:
plus they have a huge budget that they get to use to make these games. Anyone else see the behind the scenes suprise trailer that was a really nice studio plus to get robert downey Jr. in the commercial along with FPS Russia.Not only that Avenged sevenfold made a song specifically for call of the dead and black ops 2 i mean the list just goes on and on.
awaugsPosted:
the only reason their sales are down is because of all of the people who decide to get every call of duty game for christmas.Aside from this the graphics are basically the same because the xbox 360 is due for an upgrade.but over all i think that it is the best call of duty yet and absolutely love treyarch compared to infinity ward.
LuckyOtterPosted:
Personally I don't really care about the graphics of a game. I'm buying games for their entertainment and MW3 was the most boring CoD ever. I haven't played this new one mainly because I'm not wasting another sixty dollars. MW2 and WaW (didn't play MW1) were amazing games but these new ones just terrible. They have practically taken out every single thing I have found fun in these games. From quickscoping (I heard BO2 QS wasn't that bad)to the worst maps ever. It's like anything I like in CoD they take out in the next title. Activision can't keep this up or they will go out of business. You may think that is a lot of money but for a large company like activision they need giant amounts to keep running.
MayuriPosted:
I don't understand how it's a ''Concern'', I mean sure you're getting less money but then again they're still making ALOT of profit damn corporate greed. Not saying I'm not greedy aswell but 100$ still makes me happy and they should enjoy the fact that their game still makes a large cheque.
DLTPosted:
TTG-DaBoMb 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.
I agree. I'd rather have 1 good game every 1/2 years with major differences. Rather than 1 game every year which is the same, just with re-skinned guns. They need to be a bit more creative with the next one, or this series will end up like guitar hero.
shadow1Posted:
What developers think
"OH MY GOD!!!! THIS GAME SUCKS!!! Oh look how this room looks, I wont sell it anymore."
But why are they throwing 60fps at us, its just going to get people to bring up that whole 30 fps vs 60 fps which makes no difference at all.
"OH MY GOD!!!! THIS GAME SUCKS!!! Oh look how this room looks, I wont sell it anymore."
But why are they throwing 60fps at us, its just going to get people to bring up that whole 30 fps vs 60 fps which makes no difference at all.
DubleJayJPosted:
mitchhackerxCraig- 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.
BF3 has 20-30 fps? Really? Ya, no it doesn't shit ****.
And people are finally realizing the dominant race. Which is Battlefield, and Halo.
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