Activision Veteran Claims He Will "Dethrone" Call of Duty

Based on his time spent as the senior vice president and head of publishing at Activision for a number of years, Dusty Welch seems justifiably confident in his latest venture. As the head of the newly founded U4iA Games, he has only one goal on his mind: dethrone Call of Duty as the top competitive FPS series.

[Majin-vegeta]

As much as i want this game to get dethroned i don't think anyone can except the creators Vince&Jason they know what made cod successful so they must know how to bring it down.

[Laxman]

Yeah im looking forward to a big reveal sometime soon from those guys. That single teaser image got the hype brewing already. Im thinking E3.

[Jonah_Reese]

... No, you can be a strong competitor against it but at this very moment "Dethroning" CoD is just talk at this moment.

[one2thr]

Yeah especially when the game is so easy, that even a caveman can play it.....

[Laxman]

Do* play it :)

[Grimhammer00]

It's easier than you think....but investors aren't willing to throw down 100 million in advertising.

Media blitz for months before launch and offer everything COD has but better.

Not too difficult from my armchair. Lol

[vortis]

Offer everything CoD has but better? That's not hard...actually, just about every shooter out there that isn't COD has more than COD in terms of content (I don't understand why people still pay $60 for those games) but as you mentioned it's all about the media blitz and advertising.

Activision was lying about the cost of production for COD games, which is basically something a group of modders could churn out within a year or two, but I do believe them about the $100 million for marketing and it shows. That's mainly where the strength lies.

[killa91606]

Won't happen, guaranteed. It's formula is pristine, can somebody please make me a quick list where the games labeled "Cod Killers" failed to beat call of duty?

[one2thr]

I for one believe that all these so called "COD killers" had/has what it take to end call of duty's reign, but its really up to the million upon millions of people that keep eating up activisions $60 DLC. You can call me a hater, but I was once a COD zombie..... But after going 32k and 7d so many times, the game has become more and more less challenging......

[JeffGUNZ]

@ one2thr.

Really? Who are you kidding? You honestly think that other online FPS have dethroned COD and just didn't because of advertising? Name some, heck, name one? There are tons of AMAZING FPS out there, but the online aspect of COD is so addicting and fun, that it's just a monster now. A lot of it is the 60fps on the consoles, which make it feel like the smoothest FPS out there. COD is a monster and it's not by accident, the game focuses on the most important aspect of a game, the fun factor.

[one2thr]

What is "fun" exactly?
I find Killzone 2 and 3 "fun".....
I find Battlefield:Bad Company 2"fun".....
I find Battlefield 3.....
I find Resistance 1-3 "Fun".....
I find Portal 2 (even though its not a military shooter) "fun".....
I find Fallout "Fun".....
But COD, and I'm just speaking for myself, I did once find it "fun", but not any more seeing that it gets less and less challenging to play..... I guess its that, me growing up playing challenging games had made me this way..... Im sorry but I don not find COD challenging and on top of that most of the people I come across that have played it usually never play the objectives and most of the time play as lonewolfs. I know that it doesnt only happen in this game, but its more commonly found within COD games.....

[gamernova]

Lets let him do his thing. At the end of the day, us gamers benefit.

[problemchild84]

Oh good another FPS game...

[ZombieAssassin]

I think next gen CoD won't have the advantage of being one of the few online shooters to run at that silky smooth 60fps which hopefully will get people to notice other shooters.

Not saying that's the only reason people play it but it won't be that hard to top what CoD has...sadly by then the FPS genre will prolly be dead to me as everyone wants to be CoD so they try to make their games like it by adding perks/killstreak rewards/match making (server list ftw).

The one good thing about next gen is Activision might actually have them make a new engine and get off iD Tech 3....then again who knows maybe they'll license a different engine.

As for the article, I don't really care as he plans on making a browser based F2P game and I doubt it'll be better than Battlefield F2P or Quake F2P.

[vortis]

Very well said. Bubbles to you.

Next-gen is anyone's game and even less-so for Activision unless they have a new engine prepped and ready like RIGHT NOW.

The main issue with most shooter games now is bottlenecking and the console hardware just can't handle some of the more high-end features devs have in store. With the hardware bottleneck out of the way for next-gen consoels, I'm thinking CoD will instantly die unless Activision seriously upgrades to a new engine, pronto.

When people see CoD: Modern Warfare 4 and Battlefield 4 on the 720 and PS4 and notice the id Tech 3 compared to Frostbie 2.5 it's not even going to be a comparison.

[Hicken]

I honestly don't care WHO does it as long as it gets done.

[LightofDarkness]

You won't beat COD at being COD. Simple as that.

[BIXOMAU]

" (...) browser based games such as Riot Games' huge hit, League of Legends (...) "

League of Legends is not browser based.

[Entropic]

Good catch bixomau! We've made the correction.