The Call of Duty franchise has dominated game sales since 2007 with the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a game that dramatically raised the bar for first person shooters and set a precedent for gameplay and multiplayer systems that still exists today. With the recent release of the trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts, we have to wonder if the series is finally ready to stray from its comfort zone, and if this is even the correct decision.
Five years on however and the games have started to stagnate a bit in the eyes of fans, not that sales would be any indicator. The most recent instalment in the franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, sold over 7.5 million copies on its opening day – a staggering figure by all accounts. However many players have started to notice and complain about the formulaic nature of the series now. Infinity Ward and Treyarch capitalized on the success and positive response to Call of Duty 4’s deep multiplayer system with its levelling and perks system, and have continued to follow it almost to a tee with each instalment. The system has now become the standard for multiplayer modes across all action games and its success is a large part of the reason that games that typically wouldn’t have a multiplayer mode, such as Spec Ops: The Line, had one shoe-horned in – A solid multiplayer mode sells copies.
Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.
Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.
Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?
I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.
Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.
The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.
Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.
Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash
Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.
I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.
I got tired of the series after modern warfare 2. I still think call of duty 4 was the best out of all of them. Infinity Ward at their best at the time.
It has, it's now got better looking dogs.
Yes.
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