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Modern Warfare 3 fans blame Warzone for 'worst CoD campaign'

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is out and most fans agree that it has the worst campaign in this franchise thus far.

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z2g172d ago (Edited 172d ago )

I guess after battlefield, it was bound to be CODs turn sooner or later. I hope publishers/devs learn valuable lessons from these moments.

Yi-Long172d ago

It’s the suits in offices who are making these decisions based on current buzzwords, and a focus on monetization. They’re not gamers, they have no clue what mainstream and old-skool gamers want, but they look at the numbers for mobile gaming and GaaS and all that, and they send a memo to the devs and tell them what they need to do with these games.

There must be so many disillusioned devs out there working for some big AAA companies, who once had dreams about making fantastic single-player games, or proper Battlefield/CoD style shooters, and now they’re stuck on soulless projects thought up by a boardroom of money-guys without any creative imagination.

JEECE172d ago

It's really telling about people's memories and supposed commitments to "not buy COD" anymore that they are all saying a bad campaign is going to seriously hurt the franchise. Black Ops 4 in 2018 didn't have a true campaign at all yet here we are.

Amplitude172d ago (Edited 172d ago )

BO4 was upfront about not having a campaign though so I knew not to buy it. MW3 was advertised as having a campaign and then it had basically one mission and Warzone with bots, rendering my preorder useless

Thank christ I bought it on Steam so I could refund once I saw what was happening

I buy CoD for the campaign and usually get sucked into multiplayer for a month or two. Without the campaign (which MW3 really doesn't have) I have no interest. Imo it was dirty and scammy even including it as a selling point especially after how good the MW and MW2 campaigns were.

Einhander1972172d ago

I'm confident Microsoft can make CoD even worse.

Snookies12172d ago (Edited 172d ago )

Guess we'll see, I certainly don't see it getting any better. Same with Blizzard IP's. Need a whole new upper management team to come in to help get things back on track with these companies.

goldwyncq171d ago

Confident, or hoping that they will?

seanpitt23171d ago

I've already bought MW3 last year!
Whoever buys this will show activision that they can literally release the same game and get away with it and still make billions! You guys are literally shooting yourself in the foot!

There mentality going forward will be why work harder when you can work smarter!

ChasterMies171d ago

BlackOps 4 didn’t even have a campaign! How can Modern Warfare 3’s campaign be worse than that? Despite all this uproar, most CoD players don’t play the campaign. This is a nothing burger.

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Players claim Fortnite ruined Call of Duty by letting in more corporate greed

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.

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GoodGuy0910d ago (Edited 10d ago )

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.

Tacoboto9d ago

The "good ole days" are actually what drove me away from COD and Halo 3/Reach. Halo 4 becoming a COD-like drove me away from that only a week or so after it launched and I beat its campaign.

It sucked way back then, going a month or two without playing online-shooter-of-the-moment, and then needing to buy a $15 map pack to play with the majority of the population or your favorite playlist. The "community" rejecting Spartan Points in MCC killed that game's support, too. No revenue = no support, plain and simple.

Cacabunga8d ago

That headline could easily be something Spencer could have said 😅 I had to check if it was really an opinion piece

KyRo8d ago

As times gone on, the COD battle pass has got ALOT worse so they can push people to buy the more premium battle pass which itself is a huge rip off and nearly half the price of the base game.

The cosmetics can be fine but they've taken it to far to the point of no return. Why make a military themed game then have rabbits, dinosaurs, cats, rats & z list rappers as skins? You wouldn't add a Lamborghini to a fantasy RPG to replace a horse and you would never see Mario have limb dismemberment because they know what they are. COD is having identity crisis but kids and streamer but then all

franwex9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

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?

Inverno9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

Exactly! Trends don't all need to be followed. Plus where Fortnite got somewhat better with it's monetization, Acti got worse. Or at least Fortnite has lended itself more to the wacky stuff, and has put more effort and quality into that stuff.

jjb19819d ago

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.

PRIMORDUS9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

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.

StoneTitan8d ago

I mean cant really blame them for supporting the game that made them the most money and the most people player...ever?

Psychonaut859d ago

Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance.

Ra30308d ago

100% correct! The makers of Call of Duty ran out of ideas long, long ago so they take ideas from other games like Ghost Recon, Fortnite and any other FPS game hat had success hell CoD remasters maps that they've remastered several times already then charge you again for it. Call of Duty is simply a cut, copy and paste and then put the $70 price on it every year. Activision and now Microsoft has been essentially remastering Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare every year since it was released in 2007 its to the point it's worse than the sports game like the Madden, NBA and others yearly sports franchises.
@Psychonaut85 is spot on "Call of Duty ruined Call of Duty. They needed no outside assistance"!

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Massive new COD Black Ops Gulf War leak lifts the lid on loadouts

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.

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Call of Duty Players Disappointed by $80 B.E.A.S.T. Glove Bundle Deal

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.

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Kaii17d ago

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

melons16d ago

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.

Gridknac16d ago

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.

X-2315d ago

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.