You know why??Cuz they try copying COD and screwing us Hardcore player's out there we want a game that's a challenge not our f*cking babysitter /End rant.
Im sorry do you find this reason not satisfactory???
Here are some games which have copied COD in 1 way or another and failed:
Medal of Honour Crysis 2 Resistance 3 Homefront BF:BC (not a clone but would have been successful if COD werent around)
Look at those games (3 of which were brilliant franchise's before they tried to take COD mechanics and incorporate them into their game in some way) and tell me Cod played no role in their demise. I like COD but it discredits franchise's like assassins creed which is always ballsy enough to release close to COD's release date (this inevitably reduces their sales slightly).
Three million is good enough for accounted figures. And we all know STEAM doesn't tell you what they sell, so just add another 3 or 4 million from them.
@Miami Are you kidding? Crysis 2 was yanked out of STEAM pretty quickly after the induction of the "origin" service. Not to mention the backlash of the lack of "DX11" and graphics settings probably hit the PC sales the most. It would be a miracle if they even manage to sell 500,000 units on PC.
Well, that SHOULD be what really matters, but what apparently matters more is the fact that there are more of those casuals buying the game, and thus more money to be made there.
These ppl talk so much crap. Yeah no fps makes money sure. Whats your next article going to be about? Let me guess " Games need to increase to 70 us dollars so compannies can make a profit. Stfu with that bs.
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Instead of taking your hate out on Call of Duty, why not go complain to the deveopers whoa re making these poor COD clones?
It doesn't tend to work very well.
No care for the artform of game design, or care behind real developers.
Just another quarter for their investors.
DONT BUY COD, DO NOT.
Here are some games which have copied COD in 1 way or another and failed:
Medal of Honour
Crysis 2
Resistance 3
Homefront
BF:BC (not a clone but would have been successful if COD werent around)
Look at those games (3 of which were brilliant franchise's before they tried to take COD mechanics and incorporate them into their game in some way) and tell me Cod played no role in their demise. I like COD but it discredits franchise's like assassins creed which is always ballsy enough to release close to COD's release date (this inevitably reduces their sales slightly).
Are you kidding? Crysis 2 was yanked out of STEAM pretty quickly after the induction of the "origin" service. Not to mention the backlash of the lack of "DX11" and graphics settings probably hit the PC sales the most. It would be a miracle if they even manage to sell 500,000 units on PC.
They should be trying stuff like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
or this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
or this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
or this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
or this!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Every game trying to be like cod is only a problem on console as far as I can tell.
No point in doing it on pc since they are not such huge cod fans.
what really matters is turning into a yearly casual game and losing your original fanbase.
You're trying to tell me the Halo series has never turned a profit for MS? o...........k :/
If FPS's don't turn a profit, then why are so many coming out? It must be profitable for devs to keep making them