The title seems to be poking at fans, but the repeated name was always bound to lead to confusion. Activision is out of ideas.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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It's not just Activision. It's all of AAA gaming. If you want something new go to AA or indie games.
Hollywood too. Everything is a sequel or reboot.
Sad, but true,
I don’t think it’s so much that they’re out of ideas but that they’re too scared to risk new ideas. These games are so expensive to make now so they squeeze out as much as they can with MTX and season passes to stuff their pockets as much as possible. The longer they can keep you playing, the more money they can make off of you with minimal additional effort. Wrapping up that plan with a nice widely-recognized Call of Duty logo makes them a lot of guaranteed upfront cash.
Doing the same thing for a new unknown property won’t have that guaranteed audience, will require a lot more marketing effort, and possibly years of underperforming results before it starts becoming worthwhile. And even then it’ll be impossible to catch up to the behemoth of the biggest shooter franchise in gaming history. So it just makes financial sense to keep remaking and rebooting the tried and true. Their CEOs and shareholders demand it and their audience (for now) is happy enough to keep it that way with their wallet votes.
tl;dr With development costs growing exponentially, publishers looking for the easiest path to the most profit, and gamers already primed to keep buying the next installment no matter what, sticking to old ideas is what makes the most sense. Goes for movies too.
They are confused because they keep naming the game the same stupid ass shit. Just call it COD and the fucking year like sports games.
Is this really not that obvious? Giving already used names like that is just bound to create confusion.
They're out of ideas, sad.
You don't need ideas to count up.
I'd like you to meet Windows. And Office. And XBox. Microsoft doesn't understand counting.
The new MW3 steam reviews are locked until its official release, as is always the case. People are venting where it is both possible and making some sense.
The author likely is aware of this and just likes to poke fun at angry CoD fans.
And yet, it will be the most successful Call of Duty once again until people stop buying this shit every year.
I really wonder about the marketing departments of these things. Why repeat names, if the names already have numbers anyway???
Need for Speed does the same shit. And even Doom (2016) is called the same as Doom (1993)
Because it confuses the customer into thinking its a remake, when really they’re just capitalizing on the nostalgia of the name to sell copies
That tells me all I need to know about the cod fanbase
To be fair, the original Call of Duty 3 wasn't that great. Serious step down from Call of Duty 2, cause Treyarch was garbage back then.
I still chuckle when I recall that the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare credits saying, "This is the third installment, Infinity Ward shit!"
Right, but they're review bombing Modern Warfare 3, not CoD3.
Oh, well then fuck those idiots. Storming through the stock exchange was awesome.
I stop caring about modern warfare about 5 years ago when it became apparent that they had even less artistic integrity than the FIFA games, so I haven't really been keeping track.
So what's this new game actually called is it literally just called Modern Warfare 3, again? Because if that's the case it's 100%, their fault.
I played COD in their latest deployment, I had fun and I was shocked at how the game pushed so much BS on others. One guy I played with said he dropped 1k on skins and weapons. In his defense, they are making it pay to win with some bundles. I never bought shit, just earned some skins and didn't care.
What are the gamers angry about this time? Did they let one of those pesky women into the game? Is one of them women maybe a little plain and not a 10/10 waifu for them to jerk themselves into a coma over? Oh no! Gaming is dead. So is satire.