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Battlefield Vs. Call of Duty [Infographic]

Comparison between the two biggest franchises for competitive multiplayer in terms of sales and reviews.

SactoGamer4565d ago

It's interesting how EA used the same dev studio the entire time yet Activision continued to bounce between a number of different developers.

Lord_Stark4565d ago (Edited 4565d ago )

How else do they release a game every year? It WAS a great strategy when you think about it. Each game would have essentially a 2 year development cycle even though a game would be released every year. The problem was, Call of Duty 4's multiplayer formula was so successful, Activision is so cowardly, they wont let the developers deviate from what works, what sells. And the developers have just ran out of unique ideas to reinvent the franchise.

PhantomT14124564d ago (Edited 4564d ago )

Yep, Actually Treyarch's Call of Duty 3 was quite different from Call of Duty 2 and other Call of Dutys. Even it was far from best of the series, it still had intersting ideas.

JellyJelly4565d ago

The biggest difference I can spot in the infographic is that Battlefield didn't stop evolving in 2008.

Agent-864565d ago

That and BF never forgot about it's PC roots despite moving over to console. COD on PC has been going downhill since MW1 while DICE continues to put out good games across all platforms. As a PC gamer, I love DICE and hate being treated as a "second class citizen" by COD/Activision. I mean look at their latest insult: dedicated servers are unranked! What's the point of having them then?

Simco8764565d ago

Both are fun, and have their own fanbase. I am glad gaming still trucks on, no matter how many haters there are.

anthem4565d ago

Im happy to see that its not Halo vs COD any more

bub164565d ago

Im sorry EA but you will never win over COD. COD is so popular now and its one of them games you can just pick up and be good at in 20 mins getting screen after screen of rewards,

Im not saying battlefield is badly made or rubbish in any way at all it just takes alot more getting used to then COD

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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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BlackCountryBob8d 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.

DefenderOfDoom27d ago (Edited 7d 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 .

smolinsk7d 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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GoodGuy0920d ago (Edited 20d 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.

Tacoboto18d 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.

Cacabunga18d ago

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

KyRo18d 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

franwex18d ago (Edited 18d 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?

Inverno18d ago (Edited 18d 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.

jjb198118d 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.

PRIMORDUS18d ago (Edited 18d 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.

StoneTitan18d ago

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

Psychonaut8518d ago

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

Ra303018d 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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