What happens when a Video Game Company has one of the hottest intellectual properties in the industry? They use it, and make a lot of money. But no matter how great, anything that’s over used will become repetitive, stale, and people will lose interest. This begs the question: How can Activision prevent what happened with Guitar Hero from happening with Call of Duty?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.
Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash
Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.
I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.
Hopefully that is already starting to happen.
nintendo has been the greatest developer/publisher in the entire world for 25 years. they are the ones people should be copying
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Everybody and their sister starting making music based peripherals and flooded the market. Activision and Harmonix could of done some things differently but they were to busy milking the cow to notice the cow needed attention.
Shutting it down completely is good news for the competition. More market share for everyone else. Rockband, regardless how you feel about it, started the downward spiral for Guitar Hero. I've seen plug in guitars that had similar graphics with NO console system necessary for $19.99...Activision can't compete with that with there overhead. They could of done alot of different things but they have lost interest. The 20+ million units sold and billions in profit they make every time they sell a COD game is making it so.
This will open doors for other devs and pubs...win/win for them.