Modern Warfare 3 Dev: "We Don't Care About Sales Numbers"

IGN: Infinity Ward's Community Manager Robert Bowling on sales numbers, splitscreen and Sledgehammer.

[PaPa-Slam]

LMAO!!!, funniest thing I've heard all day.

[iamnsuperman]

Why. Its like DiCE or any other developers saying it. They are proud of their game. Its the publishers who care developers only care about funding and the quality of the product

[RedDead]

If they were proud they would try to improve it.

[Baka-akaB]

Seriously ? those other guys saying it can pretend they did their best and are at least at the top in a few fields .

Let's get real a sec . For starters not with the same over tweaked engines over and over . And no before you go there , no let's not pretend it was the best possible engine and only one capable of running at 60fps .

[Stevo91]

Thing is, if they don't care about "sales" surely they would take a risk and try and change the game, but year after year they release pretty much the same game with a few tweaks, and the reason they do this is because it sells well year after year, so I find this statement hard to believe.

[Simco876]

@iamnsuperman

Your right dude, don't listen to these fools. If you worked on a game for two years, you would be proud of it also. Regardless if it's using the same old engine from 5 years ago.

[evrfighter]

Article must be read with the trololol song playing in the background in order to understand it.

[Corax]

Really... http://media.tumblr.com/tum...

[gamingdroid]

On another note, I'm stoked for this game. Just got Gears last night to hold me over until MW3 is out.

[LOGICWINS]

"If they were proud they would try to improve it."

How do you know that Activision isn't forcing them to maintain its core gameplay in order to guarantee sales?

[LightofDarkness]

@LOGICWINS:

If that was the case, why would they be proud of their game? I wouldn't be proud of the product of creative stifling or "forced" development.

[Baka-akaB]

@LOGICWINS

Yeah activision forced the guys behind deadspace to leave it and their new ips ideas , so they could churn out cod games .

[nanometric]

They don't care, because they already know that the game is going to sell 5+ mil in the first day, regardless of whether it is actually good or not. Sad, but true.

[cogniveritas]

So it's director of communications and community manager. You can't even really call the guy a developer. He basically said it's not the job of the development teams such as Infinity Ward or Sledgehammer to concern themselves with sales. But basically because that the job of the corporate guys at EA and the marketing team.

[cogniveritas]

I meant to say it's the job of the corporate guys at Activision to worry about sales.

[dark-hollow]

Of course they wont...because kotick wont give them their share.

[saladthieves]

Riiiight...and Apple doesn't care about taking over the world.. k.

[fluffydelusions]

And they also don't care about updating the graphics, sounds, and voices to name a few.

[Angels3785]

You may not, but Activision does..........

[Daver]

that is what I was about to write

[wallis]

Then take some time out and finish your games before you release them.

[Motorola]

They don't have a choice. Activision don't let them.

[koehler83]

With 500 people on the franchise and a trigger happy CEO, you really SHOULD care about sales.

[Baka-akaB]

Come on bro ...

[MidnytRain]

Seriously...

"If there are three people having a great time then we've done our job correctly and we will be happy."

You KNOW that's a lie.

[banana420]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL activison = money whore and game series ruiner wheres tony hawk now ?

[BlueEye]

And I don't care about my family, BULLSHIT!

[SneeringImperialist]

Omg i actually LMAO'd good joke IF :)

[Kee]

The developer doesn't, but the publisher does.

[applepie_svk]

Nice bullshit, but if they don´t care their boss will care, and after all they´ll be fired :D

[LilDeja93]

"Wait, how can you have a team deathmatch with only three players?" LMAO

[MasterD919]

Bobby Kotick sure as hell cares!

[Gamer-Z]

Modern Warfare 3 Dev: "We Don't Care About Sales Numbers"

Lol

[Redempteur]

Thanks for the laugh ...

[2pacalypsenow]

Yeah they don lol its all they care about

[Killman]

Yeah, they don't care now that the sales are pretty much guaranteed.

[chickens]

LOL, oh come on, they didn't make the game for the crack of it, its their job, to earn money, of course they care about sales. + they dont sell dlc every few months because they dont care about sales. they are as greedy as microsoft + Apple.

[CanadianTurtle]

Actually, I believe them.

If they cared about money and sales, they'd be worried about updating the graphics and engine and gameplay. Which they haven't done that well for 3 straight games...

[Hicken]

If they cared about their FANS, they'd do that.

Their fans, however, seem to be mostly idiots.

[HarryKawk]

LIES!

[rattletop]

maybe MW3 dev doesn't care. but the publisher sure does.

[godsinhisheaven]

yeah but your boss does.

[SteveSmith]

It's easy to say you don't care about the sales, when you already know that you'll easily sell over 5 millions.

[MajorgamerQc]

They wouldnt have balance the game for the casual gamer if they didnt care about sale numbers

[sxbrady]

Exactly activisions bottom line is cold hard cash!

[artdafoo]

These guys even have time to talk ? Shouldn't they be hard at work on " COD 10 The Return Of Jesus " ?

[Beastradamus]

The reason that COD doesn't get a graphical update is because they need to the graphics they have now to maintain that smooth 60fps that makes COD easy to pick up.

[trenso1]

If you didn't care about sale you would have a cod every year. Even though that's more activisions fault then the devs but you would certainly change the game and not do minor tweaks