‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ Review Scores Are Below Redfall, Forspoken, Every COD Game

This really has to be a five alarm fire for Microsoft, who needs to get a handle on this IP and get away from this insane Activision crunch schedule for pumping out increasingly terrible yearly installments just for something, anything to sell during the holiday.

[Flawlessmic]

can only hope it means, no more yearly releases and more like a new cod game every 2 -3 years which should coincide with a massive increase in quality, while also allowing other devs a realistic chance to fight for the FPS crown as currently no one can compete with a series that has like 7 dev studios working on it at all times churning out games yearly.

[darthv72]

They could theoretically release a mainline cod every other year and fill in the off years with expansions. They now have a wealth of IP to cover things in the event cod had to switch to semi annual.

[StarkR3ality]

Yeah I remember rumours of the abandonment of the yearly cycle and was actually quite excited about what that would mean for the series. Clearly the chickened out of that and pulled this game forward to fill the void.

Don't see the point in buying a live service game every year when I won't be able to consistently play it due to other releases and by the time I might have time to play it, there is another one on the horizon. Seems like a waste of money and why I would never buy any of the battle pass/addiontional content. You get 3 seasons of content and then that's it really.

[Markdn]

When your trying to sell your company for 69billion you wanna show you can pump. Out games, I guess money doesn't buy quality.

[StarkR3ality]

I've seen a lot of blame on Microsoft on this situation.. please stop.

It's fine to criticize when valid but just throwing around baseless accusations makes you seem stupid. They didn't pump out this game due to the Xbox takeover, if anything Microsoft will defo abandon the yearly cycle in my opinion due to game pass and making the most out of each release.

They released this because they're greedy fucks and always have been, way before the takeover.

[Einhander1972]

Yes, there is no possible way this was rushed out the door so that Microsoft could have a CoD game to pack in with their consoles for the holiday.

Just like even though Zenimax had never put out any game in the last three generations that was as unfinished as Redfall totally wasn't because Microsoft needed a game to release.

[Kratos_Kart2007]

I agree 100%

[Inverno]

Technically they release COD every 2 -3 years cause there's several different studios working on separate games. Development time isn't the issue, nor would more time apart fix what's wrong with the series. This game is viewed and used as a cash cow, and so long as they can release copy paste jobs and heavily monetize them, quality is not a concern.

[Plague-Doctor27]

Anyone who thinks MS spent $67 billion to acquire the highest selling IP every year only to take a step back, look at its quality, and decide to space out the releases to lose revenue is delusional

[Chevalier]

No way in hell they stop the yearly releases. It makes too much money. They would probably just spend some of the money to do some PR to try to smooth things over instead.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Good they deserved it.

[gold_drake]

damn
guess they never expected that to happen after their billion spending.

but i doubt ms cares about scores. at this point.

[Profchaos]

They've been awful quiet I still can't see them not getting an idea if the quality of the game prior or at least a briefing post Acquisition.

Activision shareholders were probably cheering having the MW3 hype prior to the same meant bigger payouts when the merger occurred probably why they forced it

[Popsicle]

Well to your point, Phil did say that an 11 out of 10 game will not move Xbox consoles.

[badz149]

They need a 5/7 game

[Lightning77]

MS themselves had nothing to do with the game development or the scheduling and release of the game.

[Popsicle]

Never said Microsoft had anything to do with the development of the game. Was isolating Gold Drakes reference to MS not caring about scores.

[franwex]

The three studios three years released was good, except for sledgehammer. Sledgehammer simply cannot handle the three year cycle. Infinity ward and treyarch are fine. Maybe treyarch faltering a little bit with black ops 4, but coming to the rescue in 2 years with black ops Cold War war-again, sledgehammer failing.

[jjb1981]

According to a couple of losers in here it's a great cash flow for MS's 1st-party games. I don't see that coming to fruition any time soon. ABK just wants that bundle money from SBMM and EOMM. Suckers.

[Killa78]

EOMM?

[Sephiroushin]

engagement optimized matchmaking

[Killa78]

The only shame about this is that sales will still be through the roof and there's no real competitor.

[Barlos]

There doesn't need to be a competitor. It just needs people to stop blindly buying this crap every single year.

[badz149]

If only it's THAT easy

[Barlos]

Hopefully this will be a nice wake up call for the devs that they can't rest in their laurels.

Of course it will still sell a silly number of copies unfortunately.

[anast]

It doesn't matter. Madden gets bombed every release.

[SoloGamer1]

and deservedly so.

[Armyofdarkness]

It’s so sad it’s still number one.

[PhillyDonJawn]

I mean how is this any different? Lol Cod been like this what made ppl wake up?

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

ABK has obviously been GREAT for the players so far…

[Dandizzle]

Ouchies

[Johnh5223]

Call of duty has been a trash casual game for years Microsoft got burnt as i believe the popularity will decrease even more over the years. Big red one was my fav.

[Crows90]

They said $70 would help maintaining or improving quality...

Did they lie??? 🤔

[isarai]

Good, but sales speak louder

[OWCY]

Why do we base the be all end all on reviews. They have kids abusing them. Bots auto reviewing. Review bombing. I don't trust most reviews now days

[Stanjara]

Lies, all lies man. Best COD ever... go and buy 3 copies brah. /s

But let's get serial... Battlebit.

[Elda]

LOL! I've stated the only thing that was good about MSXB buying Activision was COD & Diablo & so far the latest COD is trash & the latest Diablo is average at best. Good luck at the XB division making back that $70 billion dollars.

[Btf_1991]

Congrats. Well-deserved.

[OneLove]

We see why activision abandoned ship now💀 time for Microsoft to pick up the scraps and try their best to put it together or at least make it presentable.

[CrimsonWing69]

I mean how many generations have we gone through where it’s been an annual damn release? Take your f*cking time with it for f*ckssake. I get it, the game makes you a billion each year so it won’t stop, but man… give it some meat around the bones at least.

[EazyC]

This is the fundamental issue when games development is purely about product rather than art.

I don't think it will work out in the long-run, but holy shit it is already lasting way too long in the interim.

[jznrpg]

Drones don’t care about good games. They want to shoot things and use cheat apps. Joking of course but some truth in there.

[DrDoomer]

So it's good enough for game pass.

[badz149]

But it doesn't launch on GP. That's the problem

[Kratos_Kart2007]

this turd will still sell..I'm still playing survival on my ps3 on MW2

[DigitallyAfflicted]

Sometimes you just have to lower the bar, so the next one will be well received 👍

[P_Bomb]

We got the bug that makes your arms long and your gun tiny. A few times. Just the cherry on top at this point.

[XBManiac]

They could fix it... but with a new game every year, it is already too late for investing resources on it. They need to focus on next CoD.

[kaos89]

I wonder if COD will join Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk graveyard due to the yearly pump and dump? Not if the doltards keep buying it...

[MontyeKristo]

It's just people upset still about the Microsoft acquisition, I bet.

[Games1st]

They can let it rest for a bit.

[Games1st]

Xbox can let it rest for awhile.

[Crows90]

Love how redfall has become a benchmark in how bad a game can be.