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Activision Needs To Stop Releasing Call Of Duty Games Every Year

If there’s any series of video games that prove you can have too much of a good thing, it’s Call Of Duty.

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CrimsonWing691541d ago

Annual releases for most series needs to stop.

fiveby91541d ago (Edited 1541d ago )

EA is also releasing the same sports game with minor tweaks every year. The odds of this practice stopping is extremely low. Until people stopping buying the product it will continue. If other's chose to buy these products annually, I guess that's there business. It's just not for me.

MajorLazer1541d ago

Not only that, they make fools buy the same Ultimate Team packs for pretty much the same players every year.

JackBNimble1541d ago

EA has been doing this for the last 30 years .

1Victor1541d ago

It’s simple If you want it to stop then STOP BUYING IT EVERY YEAR. When the money drop they’ll slowdown the release or move to something better

SyntheticForm1541d ago

The people who are in their late thirties who started CoD at CoD 2 - those are the ones who are over it. Mostly anyway.

It's the younger generations who are keeping the coals hot. They saw their parents playing it when they were young and now they're into it. Also, if a few of their classmates are into it - just a few - that's all it takes for interest to grow.

Then we have one of the biggest factors that keeps this thing going, and that's the "influencers" and hype people who get perks from Activision and the developers to attend game "premiers" all expenses paid. Every generation of CoD player needs to be fed up at the same time and abstain from CoD and its promoters for even a slim chance of change.

I don't think we're there yet.

chrisoadamson1541d ago

I stopped after advanced warfare

Michiel19891540d ago

@synthetic u just described my relation with CoD. I bought CoD 1 on release when I was 13-15 and enjoyed it for a good while, when they released Modern Warfare 1 it seemed like CoD was unstoppable. World at war was great as well imo, but when MW2 released I felt so disconnected from the game. Too much killstreaks to customize, nukes/drones/bombships were constantly over the map. Ever since then it went downhill for CoD rapidly, the games became too crazy for me at least. Every now and then there was an entry that was allright, but none that could get me as hooked as CoD1 or MW1 did.

Funny thing was that Titanfall 1 got me hooked again, Vince Zampbella (not sure if i write that correctly) knows how to get me hooked at least!

I do think the younger generation and casual gamers is the cause of series like this, doesnt mean they are to blame for it. I remember being young and wanting the newest game in each series as well regardless of what reviews said. There is probably a lot of casual gamers that don't really care about the state of the industry and just want to have fun with the newest entry in a series. Those people will buy the new releases regardless of how good or bad a game is, because they will have fun with it regardless. Sad to see a lot of series ruined by these yearly releases, but I don't think there is any stopping to it for the forseeable future.

outsider16241540d ago

Or just buy it alternate years. Skip a year and buy the next. But then there's wwe2k20.:-(. I bought 2k18, skipped 19 and waited for 2k20..lol. Thank God for critic/user reviews.

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bluefox7551541d ago

Why? People keep buying them, so why shouldn't they meet the demand? I don't even like CoD, but lots of people do.

Fist4achin1541d ago

That's true. Can't blame them for making money off of the demand. I'll admit I am a sucker for their campaigns.

Army_of_Darkness1541d ago

Want them to stop making it, then stop buying it and eventually, they'll get the point.

badz1491541d ago

Releasing every year and becoming the best selling game that year every year and the one before that, almost always end up as the 2nd best selling game of that year too. So there is clearly a huge demand for CoD and if I'm Activision, I would also never wanting the gravy train to stop because who doesn't like money??

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GreenDragonCVR1541d ago (Edited 1541d ago )

Especially when they use those filthy bucks to publish Sekiro. Everyone benefits. Except the poor bastards who confused CoD for an actual game.

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MrVux0001541d ago (Edited 1541d ago )

So long as soo many people keep buying them annually, they will continue releasing them annually.

ssmilloy361541d ago

they make enough money drop the pc drm

why when my internet went down i wasn't allowed to play campaign

i paid for it dang it

ssmilloy361540d ago

how the disagrees. internet down. can't play. ignant

RazzerRedux1541d ago

lol.....words you will never hear a Activision stockholder say.

Kabaneri1541d ago

Unless Treyarch knocks it out of the park this year I think people will keep playing MW for a while. Hopefully it gets a next gen patch.

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Please, can Call of Duty leave awful Netflix-style menus behind

Call of Duty games used to be streamlined experiences, but COD 2024’s UI could be another nightmarish clutter of streaming tabs.

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BlackCountryBob5d ago

If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.

DefenderOfDoom25d ago (Edited 5d ago )

The UI is confusing to me because I have not purchased a Call of Duty iin like 8 years .Only bought CoD MW3 because 3 of my friends I have known since to 70s are playing zombies . But I am used it now .

smolinsk5d ago

The UI is the least of the franchise many problems these days. But yes the UI is also terrible.

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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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GoodGuy0917d ago (Edited 17d 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.

Tacoboto16d 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.

Cacabunga16d ago

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

KyRo16d 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

franwex16d ago (Edited 16d 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?

Inverno16d ago (Edited 16d 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.

jjb198116d 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.

PRIMORDUS16d ago (Edited 16d 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.

StoneTitan15d ago

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

Psychonaut8516d ago

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

Ra303015d 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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