Dan Amrich, Activision’s Community Manager, posted a strongly worded entry on his blog yesterday regarding the response by some gamers to the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 patches detailed by David Vonderhaar, Studio Design Director for Treyarch. Such responses included death threats, and while any level-headed person would call them unwarranted and disgusting, is this ultimately representative of a culture where this is the norm?
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Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
Windows Central: "The money may keep rolling in, but Microsoft is the custodian of one of the biggest selling video game series in history. If something doesn't change, I fear we'll reach a breaking point and irreparable damage will have been done."
In my view, they should probably merge MP with Warzone and essentially make it free to play like Halo Infinite. The campaign/zombies mode can be $30 yearly DLC. I know this would be insanity as most COD players essentially pay the full price of the game simply for the MP. However-with a shrinking player base they may have to consider it. Making it free would bring in a ton of players.
To late MW3 should have been a lesson but here we are two years later with a steaming pile a shite called blops7
Nothing lasts forever, eventually something will come along to make people forget about COD
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@Oumba:”We’ve heard that story many times before 😂”
You know what we seen many times good franchises been run into the ground by bad management like h___o , f___a and most of the sports game oh I forgot the dynasty warriors
Oh forgot to say
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Halo killer once arrived and technically call of duty killer also arrived, its name is Fortnite
Call of Duty was riding the revenue horse and charts for ~20 years. Whether undeserved or deserved.
But I endorse everyone to remind you that Microsoft could have decided differently when they took it over.
The money was certainly there, and they could have taken their time revamping the franchise:
Current-gen tech, manageable microtransactions, not imitating Fortnite and returning to core values of the franchise's origin.
They didn't.
Let's see next year. Hopefully without the then 13 years old PS4 and One hardware.
I think that this whole think is a little crazy. I mean it's a game update for crying out loud. Hopefully it'll stop some of the quick scoping that has been rampant in the game.
Why so serious guys?
and this is why I don't remember the last time I went into any game in open chat. Shame because when Halo 2 and Gears of War were out I would do it all the time. Then the kids really took control
I think it's pretty sad myself. It's just a game after all.
I bet they wouldn't say those things face to face with the developer. Damn internet cowards.
I'd find out who it was and permanently ban them from the game(s). There is no excuse for death threats.
Is anyone really surprised? I've heard the same comments shouted at me just for killing someone in a match. Tragic, but not surprising.