You might want to reconsider getting toxic over Call of Duty's multiplayer.
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?
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.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II ranked play arrives in 2023. Meanwhile, ranked play gets retired in two older COD games.
Don't laugh but I don't understand as I'm a casual gamer but what's the difference between the MW2 multiplayer that I'm playing online now compared to this ranked play etc? What is ranked play. I thought I was playing with a rank that increases at certain point stages.
Is it going to be crap like all their previous ranked play? Timed events that place you in a ladder and you move up and down in that ladder? Just give us a normal ranked play like every other comp game please, let us move up and down between the ranks based on ELO, for the whole season
Here is a look at what is likely to be the last new map for Vanguard before the new game is released.
' it should never get to the point where the parties start passing derogatory remarks to one another, which was happening quite a lot in the Call of Duty over the last few years.'.
Which has been happening quite a lot since the internet was invented.
Good to hear!
“Activision has an anti-toxicity team responsible for overlooking such activities, and it's even forced over 300,000 players to rename their usernames since the team launched its automated filtering system. Activision has added 14 languages to detect offensive content, such as in-game text-baed chats and usernames.”
“Continuing its efforts to create online gaming a safer place for everyone, Call of Duty issued a new unified Code of Conduct with three main values:”
• Treat Everyone With Respect
• Compete With Integrity
• Stay Vigilant
“The new Code of Conduct will be presented in-game, starting with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and players will need to acknowledge it in-game to continue playing.”
I see very nice
Activision and CoD have been polluting the gaming environment for generations. They built their own space of toxicity with the complete disregard of their community and now they are seeing the representation of themselves. You can't make up this kind of stupidity, it has to play out in real-time.