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Modern Warfare 3 fans blame Warzone for 'worst CoD campaign'

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is out and most fans agree that it has the worst campaign in this franchise thus far.

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z2g189d ago (Edited 189d ago )

I guess after battlefield, it was bound to be CODs turn sooner or later. I hope publishers/devs learn valuable lessons from these moments.

Yi-Long189d ago

It’s the suits in offices who are making these decisions based on current buzzwords, and a focus on monetization. They’re not gamers, they have no clue what mainstream and old-skool gamers want, but they look at the numbers for mobile gaming and GaaS and all that, and they send a memo to the devs and tell them what they need to do with these games.

There must be so many disillusioned devs out there working for some big AAA companies, who once had dreams about making fantastic single-player games, or proper Battlefield/CoD style shooters, and now they’re stuck on soulless projects thought up by a boardroom of money-guys without any creative imagination.

JEECE189d ago

It's really telling about people's memories and supposed commitments to "not buy COD" anymore that they are all saying a bad campaign is going to seriously hurt the franchise. Black Ops 4 in 2018 didn't have a true campaign at all yet here we are.

Amplitude189d ago (Edited 189d ago )

BO4 was upfront about not having a campaign though so I knew not to buy it. MW3 was advertised as having a campaign and then it had basically one mission and Warzone with bots, rendering my preorder useless

Thank christ I bought it on Steam so I could refund once I saw what was happening

I buy CoD for the campaign and usually get sucked into multiplayer for a month or two. Without the campaign (which MW3 really doesn't have) I have no interest. Imo it was dirty and scammy even including it as a selling point especially after how good the MW and MW2 campaigns were.

Einhander1972189d ago

I'm confident Microsoft can make CoD even worse.

Snookies12189d ago (Edited 189d ago )

Guess we'll see, I certainly don't see it getting any better. Same with Blizzard IP's. Need a whole new upper management team to come in to help get things back on track with these companies.

goldwyncq188d ago

Confident, or hoping that they will?

seanpitt23188d ago

I've already bought MW3 last year!
Whoever buys this will show activision that they can literally release the same game and get away with it and still make billions! You guys are literally shooting yourself in the foot!

There mentality going forward will be why work harder when you can work smarter!

ChasterMies188d ago

BlackOps 4 didn’t even have a campaign! How can Modern Warfare 3’s campaign be worse than that? Despite all this uproar, most CoD players don’t play the campaign. This is a nothing burger.

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CoD devs share temporary fix for dev error 5433 plaguing MW3 after Season 3 Reloaded update

The developers have provided a little band-aid while PlayStation players attempt to get back into MW3.

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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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LucasRuinedChildhood16d ago

Let's just leave Call Of Duty behind.

anast15d ago

The isn't for you anymore.

BlackCountryBob15d 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.

DefenderOfDoom215d ago (Edited 15d 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 .

smolinsk15d 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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GoodGuy0927d ago (Edited 27d 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.

Tacoboto26d 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.

Cacabunga25d ago

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

KyRo25d 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

franwex26d ago (Edited 26d 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?

Inverno26d ago (Edited 26d 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.

jjb198126d 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.

PRIMORDUS26d ago (Edited 26d 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.

StoneTitan25d ago

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

Psychonaut8526d ago

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

Ra303025d 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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