Call of Duty is a machine that simply cannot be stopped. Even if the series has been a little hit and miss, it's had a pretty solid run in recent years. With Vanguard finally here, we pit it against 2020's Black Ops Cold War.
The biggest development budgets ever disclosed by a game company, buried in a court filing (but found by Game File), along with updated sales figures.
Insane.
How come that these are even bigger budgets than Hollywood film productions?
I really can't "see" what's so expensive about the development of a Call of Duty Game.
Yeah I don't get it either, they are basically the same exact game each year yet the budgets make it seem like they are making a brand new ip.
I think it's mostly the fact that they have like 20+ different teams working on these games probably in the hundreds of hours per individual per week to meet the yearly deadline. That and I do not know, marketing, besides that, it beats me.
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Black Ops Cold War was the last truly great Call of Duty campaign, and four years later Treyarch have the chance to top it in Black Ops 6.
Call of Duty: Vanguard has sold over 30 million copies, a milestone confirmed by the game's former social media strategist.
That's the thing about Call of Duty: it gets panned online, but still sells gangbusters.
Begs the question: is the online community complaining truly a vocal minority, or are people just unprincipled? Both I'm sure, but to what extent?
It's all about the hive mind, and I'm no exception to it. We buy each installment pretty much every year, regardless of the next installment being an improvement or not. Sad to say, but it is what it is.
People know what they like, it’s really that simple. The people who play CoD love CoD and unlike the minority gamers they will support it regardless.
The vocal people online will make sure a game burns they don’t like without even trying it. But, the CoD crowd will buy the game PLAY it and give feedback that goes towards their games growth.
And as long as they can get online and shoot people they will continue to support it.
Cod is not the same anymore, I didn't buy this one or mw3 and I no longer care about the franchise... People complain about Spider-Man 2 as being a copy paste but cod is the same game every single year and they're ok with that.
@cptn you further validate the point, people who enjoy it keep playing, and people like you who don’t stop. But 30 million is greater than your displeasure of the game.
And if they like it, they’ll keep playing and paying.
"are people just unprincipled?"
I mean... You're on this site. You've seen the discourse over COD, how awful it is, yet how aful Microsoft was for taking COD away from PS gamers, despite not once saying they wanted to do that.
Another similar one - fans of BG3 since day one refusing to buy Alan Wake 2 because it doesn't have a physical edition. Or anyone calling 30fps unacceptable but is enjoying DD2. Or anyone complaining about bloated open world games yet is complaining about shorter, focused narratives.
I've said something like this many times. When something is huge...it could be music, video games etc, it is fashionable to start the hate. I have loved every iteration of COD. Each has it's own merits. I have enjoyed them all and have never had a problem proclaiming it even when people heckled me. Oh well. People gonna hate.
Just like Madden and Fifa (FC), the audience is conditioned to buy every year by EA and ATVI.
Why talk about Vanguard? It was still the best selling game of that year. And at a 70+ metacritic.
Modern Warfare 3 last year was the 2nd best selling game of the year(been awhile since it wasn't 1st) and at a 50+ metacritic.
It would be cool to see the sales for all the call of duties to see if there's a trend and to compare.
I have only bought 2-3 CoD’s ever and the last time I bought one was at least a decade ago. The only reason I bought it back then was to play with my Son who was still in high school. I got some copies for free here and there from friends but I would only play the campaign. I’ve been burned out on PVP since Battlefield Vietnam on PC , Planetside stuff like that. I do enjoy PVE if done well but I doubt I’ll ever play a PVP game again unless they do something totally different than what’s been done before and I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
I have friends that buy every CoD and I ask them why do they still play after 20 years of the same game? Most of them say because of their online friends or real life friends that play it. Not because the game is good or it’s better than the last.
Maybe because people pre ordered it. I have pre ordered every COD since COD MW 2019. I enjoyed mw and cold war. Didn't play beta to vanguard I just pre ordered it like 2 days before release and regretted it a few days after release as it was bad.
Modern Warfare
Spite the negitives I'm really enjoying vanguard and much prefer it over cold war. Like I enjoyed cold war just not the mp. Zombies was good and the single player was decent
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I always liked Modern Warfare and I enjoyed the campaign of World at War with Victor Reznov Gary Oldman is one of my favorite actors. After that I just stopped playing COD I haven't touched a COD game since Black Ops when I rented it.
Vanguard