GameJudgment's Nicholas Mastrodicasa says,
"I’ve been playing Call of Duty since the first one came out. I’m a big fan of WW2 based games, so naturally I loved the first two Call Of Duty games.
It’s time to stand up and do something about this before it gets worse. When Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 comes out, don’t bother picking it up. There’ll be plenty of other games to play. Show the studios that we’ve had enough of these recycled peices of shit hitting shelves every November."
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Discover the impact of Microsoft's decision to include Call Of Duty in Game Pass. Explore the pros and cons and speculate about future changes.
Most folks that have a Gamepass subscription will not spend the $70, they will use Gamepass instead to play COD. MS will most likely make their money from some solely PC players & some solely PS5 owners. Even some PC players may opt to use Gamepass instead of spending $70. I would think MS would want to make every dime they could from retail sales. As long as they put new releases of COD day one on Gamepass, MS will lose out on some sales of COD.
COD makes truck loads of money on microtransactions. That's likely the play. Get more people in the door through Game Pass and sell more microtransactions. Have a steady stream of events to keep people interested so they keep their sub, and then just the sub alone would double the revenue from that player each year.
Buying the game at $70 a pop including the deluxe versions is much better than people subs for a dollar to $15 a month. Die hard fans that usually buy the game also buy into the transactions. Again putting any new COD day one on Gamepass is definitely a sure loss of making some retail money for every copy of COD. With the last iteration of COD being bad most likely people are going to sub to Gamepass to play COD basically saving themselves $70, that is a loss of retail sales.
Most that don't have Gamepass will just buy the game and he done with it. People that do will just result in a retail sale being lost. Some will buy the subscription for the month then be done. This is lose lose. Casuals aren't going to pay almost 300 dollars a year for COD.
The reality is that Microsoft already knows the answer as stated by them in their documents. PlayStation gamers have built up an ecosystem of games and they aren't migrating over and dropping what they have to buy an Xbox to play one game in a service you have to pay monthly for. Cheaper to just buy the game. And, I'd bet many casual COD players don't know or care about the acquisition.
Which is why Jim Ryan pushed to make sure that that one game continues to be sold as usual on Sony's platform to keep the status quo. Every other IP owned by Activision are worthless. And Activision has shown they don't care about other IP like Tony Hawk by cancelling them.
Sales WILL be lost on Xbox. That's for certain. Microsoft can only hope that Xbox gamers continue to buy up those micro transactions to make up for those lost sales. Only positive for Microsoft is that they get to dip into PlayStation game sales that we all know from history and NPD, that Sony's console sells more games. But increase subs from Sony fans for game pass? Not happening in any way that matters.
Sony, on the other hand, can have their cake and eat it too. They get COD and they can continue dropping more content for their fastest selling GaaS game which is Hell Divers 2. As the game passes 12 million sales and doesn't beat you over the head with micro transactions, Sony has a win win situation and can support the game getting more content to keep players engaged.
As a side note, COD is probably going to turn into some version of Sea of Fortnite Duty. Games as a service sitting in game pass being milked dry with micro transactions and constant updates making you feel you're playing an unfinished game that keeps going and going with no soul.
I'm not sure why everyone is acting like COD is a surprise. That was always the plan. They said in court during the FTC case they were doing this. They have said repeatedly and recently all first party games are going to Gamepass.
gamepass like PS Plus are rental services. Games like COD you buy not rent. So in my case unless I plan on keeping gamepass for 2yrs minimum than the benefit of adding cod is pointless.
We've put together 5 reasons why we believe the arrival of the Call of Duty franchise on Xbox Game Pass will be a big deal for Microsoft.
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Cod is played by people with a kd obsession and kids that begged their moms to buy the game for them how sad
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The best part of this sob fest was the fact this guy CLAIMS he won't buy COD MW3...lol...He'll be the first one in line.
You can expect more COD articles like this mess on how COD has ruined gaming for releasing ONE game in November...O_o...the fanboys are in panic mode.
" When Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 comes out, don’t bother picking it up. There’ll be plenty of other games to play."...Hmmmmm...
Jeez, Sherlock, what game would you recommend to buy in November...lol...Anybody want to guess what game he thinks everyone should buy. :/
COD has changed the face of gaming, bringing massive investment. It's the biggest entertainment launch of the year, even topping the top movies that have come out.
Did this green bean ever hear of Halo??? Halo 3 is a juggernaut as well selling 12+ million and if that game was a multi-plat it would easily sell as well as COD and has had regular releases. Gears of war, while not at the COD level in terms of sales is still a big seller with 12+ million for 2 games...it's launching this holiday as well with a 3rd installment as are many games...is it the end of the world...of course not. Many games are at part 3 or 4...lol
This fanboy is clueless and trying to tell everyone to not buy a game is rather pathetic and his motives are very suspect. What games does he want everyone to buy in November instead of COD???...lol...that would be very telling, but guess what, he's NOT TELLING, wonder WHY???
Boycotting and telling people not to buy the game won't do anything to the series, if anything, Call of Duty could be at risk of being taken away from Activision due to the West and Zampella court battle
For all of you asking why someone who doesn't like the game would bother writing an article about it- or why the same sort of person would comment on said article- did you consider that maybe they want more content out of the CoD franchise than is currently being offered.
In other words, they want more than what they consider rehashed gaming on an outdated engine.
The problem? So many people buy it that Activision has no reason to consider changing the game. So even if the "haters" have valid points, it gets lost in the love of the millions who don't seem to understand that there's no reason why the game SHOULD be better.
Take inside_out above, for example. This guy totally believes that the CoD franchise is the best thing that ever happened to the FPS genre(despite not being a big fan, I think that more aptly applies to the Halo franchise). Inside_out and others like him will never see any problems with CoD, and they form the voice of the majority of CoD buyers.
Stagnation.
That is the only result possible when the developer and publisher of a franchise listens to such opinions. And why shouldn't they? Increased profit for minimal effort because millions will blindly buy the same game, rebadged,and dub it the "people's champ," as Inside_out does.
The only way things will change is if people who are not fond of this trend speak with their wallets. The problem there: many of these people don't want to miss out on playing with their friends, or want to give CoD the benefit of doubt.
So MW4 will come out, and if it's on current gen consoles, there will be little innovation or change from this year's iteration. And millions will still flock to it.