I've bought every cod since cod 4, and I play it nearly every single day... I mean I love the fast pace action, the small maps, everything about it except lag and when they try to patch guns and unbalance the whole game. I myself think that those who hate the game are simply bad at it, or at least below average, Imean you might argue that the game is simple to pick up and play but no matter what not everyone playing in a match is going to get 10 kills 2 deaths, there has to be players dying and I think those are the people that don't enjoy cod and drop it the next year.. I mean I now always play league play and could hardly ever play a public game because simply I wont get that kind of pump from anything else.. and yes it's been years I've been playingthe same game because iI really do love it, it's like a sport you can't change it too much.. but I do play BF, GTA, the last of us and most other major titles.. there's no harm in loving a series, for us it's like a sport... You can't drastically change it or add new mechanics that will change the game..

Now who would even read all of that ahaha.

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That might be the case for a small amount of people, but that's the same as any game. If you are bad at a game you tend to not like that game.

That, though, is not the reason people hate cod. People tend to hate COD due to the shrinking maps, weapon imbalances, and extremely re-hashed use of mechanics and visuals.

I've personally been trying to get my friends to stop buying it and move to a different franchise with more to offer. This is finally the year where a majority of us will not be buying COD and making the full switch to BF4. None of us are generally bad at COD, hell in MW2 two of us could get a nuke basically any game, most of us even go positive while a few can get a 3/1 KD. But still the effects from playing every single COD has taken its toll on us making us more and more frustrated as the things we used to love about it (Variety of size maps, the then fresh take of modern combat and killstreaks/perks) diminish over time either in quality or variety.

I use to be good at Cod. Not saying I was the best, but I could hold my own in most matches.

I was ranked up to 2000 back on cod4 at it's peak and when blops2 came out I got up to being ranked under the first 10,000 mark and my KD has always averaged 2+ across all the cod games, apart from blops2. My KD in TD was 1.9 while overall I think my KD was at the 1.8 or 1.7 mark.

I can't remember for sure because I don't play it anymore. I have managed buy every cod game since 4 because there was always a hope that they would get better but for me each one has felt worse then the last.

The biggest issue is the lag. I cannot take the game serious with how random it can be due to lag. I have played a lot of FPS games online and I can't think of any that are as inconsistent has cod has become.

To make this matter worse it it's some people do seem to have a clear advantage over it and if you ask them they don't any troubles at all which has left the community devided between people who say there is a problem and people who say there isn't and that people who complain just suck.

anyway, It's not that I think I am burnt out on Cod or I think i am that horrible at it that I don't want to play it, but I have lost any real interest I had in the series.

with next gen starting that has been the final thing to kill my interest in Cod. I don't want to cary that game over to next gen.

If and it's a very big IF... if they ever fix the lagcomp problems then maybe I will give it a try again.

I have plenty of friends that were awesome players, I am talking in the top 100's with KD's over 3.+ and they have all stopped playing cod now and feel the same.

I am just saying not everyone who hates on Cod does so because they suck at the game.

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