Kotaku - Whenever a military-themed shooter comes out, the first thing many people say is "oh great, here comes another Call of Duty clone". It's a term used as a slur against a game, saying that it's not just copying another game, it's copying another game that for many has long run out of ideas.
Why, then, is it so hard for people who are copying Call of Duty to actually pull it off and do just as good, if not better, than Call of Duty?
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?
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.
They call that a crack head! Thats what this is really about, its an addiction. People who dont smoke cigarettes look and laugh at the addicts that spend $8-$10 a pack, but they cant help themselves, they are addicted. That same analogy applies perfectly to the whole MT industry. Only an addict that was not thinking clearly would spend this kind of money on something so frivolous. A round of multiplayer provides the same high a person gets from scratching a lotto ticket, or putting money on a sports bet. MT in general need to really be regulated because you have a generation of kids becoming adults who grew up only knowing the MT era of gaming. Its normal to them and they will in turn teach their kids the same by just being a gaming parent and getting their kids involved with them in gaming. Thats why no matter how ridiculous the headlines keep getting out of the MT industry, it never seems to fade or go away.
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.
its called marketing. a company that owns CoD, Diablo, Starcraft, World of Warcraft which are some of the most powerful brands in the world. where do you expect these companies to get the type of revenue that Activsion/Blzzard gets to market their games. i'll give you an example, as we all know that the internet is the most popular form of entertainment these days, everyone is connected to internet. i go to youtube fairly often, every channel that has the ability to display ads was showing nothing but the CoD trailer hell even right they are still showing the ads. i go to watch tv and every channel i watch there is a CoD trailer showing during the commercial breaks. it all has to do with marketing, look at homefront for instance that game sold 3 million. you think that game would have sold that much if THQ did not push a heavy marketing campaign? NO.
Cause to be better then cod you have to innovate and that's something we don't see in the industry much anymore :/ the only games that seem to innovate are genres that are not multiplayer like bioshock games or exclusives like gears of war 3 and killzone 2 both of which had great multiplayer and could have been bigger then cod if they were multiplatform.
One day it will happen. Just not today. However a lot of people now prefer battlefield.
"If Everything’s a Call of Duty Clone, Why Can’t Anyone Outdo Call of Duty?"
Far Cry 3 is coming out in less than a month.
Its already been out done by a lot of franchises/games just not in the sales department.