Towards the end of 2012, analysts began discussing the fact that Call of Duty sales figures appeared to be trending downward from previous years. This is the first time in the last 4 or 5 years that the words 'trending downward' have come anywhere near this dominant franchise and it gave the industry something to think about.
Yes, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 still made billions of dollars for Activision last year and we're well aware that this year's iteration will do the same. But the fact remains that something is going on. Are people growing tired of the Call of Duty brand? Has the gravy train that is Call of Duty finally come in to station?
All good things have to end sometime and many are beginning to wonder if that day is somewhere in sight for Call of Duty.
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
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Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
Telling them to innovate is like teaching an old dog new tricks, why learn how to roll over when they lie down and sleep.why would COD bother putting an effort into changing something if life has been going great. Activision won't learn until sales have dropped and they lose the thing they love the most, money.
in terms of Call of duty treyarch is the most innovative having drivable vehicles and alternate ending, pick 10 system something out of COD while still being in COD its a slow movement in the next they need to go all out and don't reuse he same animations, engine, sounds, environment they need something very different. like space or something.
It doesn't have to do anything. It continues to break sales records year after year.
Activision could shit in a box, throw the Call of Duty name on it, and it would still fly off the shelves.
You can only milk this cow so hard and long before the teats run dry.
It's call of duty and the formula will remain the same, no matter how many ways they change kill streaks to score streaks and load out options