Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has had a disappointing European launch. Its opening week sales are 63% below what Battlefield 6 managed during its debut week in October.
VGChartz: "Game of the Year for the strategy genre has traditionally been a fight between the real-time and turn-based sub-genres for the crown. Not so this year, which was more a battle between strategic city/civilisation-building titles and the blooming card battler genre. Representing the former, we have the latest entries in the stalwart Civilization and Anno series, while the latter is fronted by the sequel to Monster Train, with its twist on the Slay the Spire-style deck building campaign, and by Death Howl, which reinterprets similar influences within a Soulslike universe."
Another night of Fortnite with the boys then?
I’ve never played Fortnite GTAV or CoD BO7 but I do own GTAV for PS4/5 because I got them cheap.
What exactly are we not getting?
Did we not just have a 2025 filled with nice games like...
Silksong, Doom TDA, Expedition 33, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Ghost of Yotei, Dispatch, Split Fiction, Hades 2, DK Bananza, and so many more?
Agree that all you just posted are great games. Expedition 33 is one of my favorites. Spent a large chunk of time on BG3 in 2023. Another for my all-time list.
My point though not well articulated in the OG post is that we would get more of the games of the quality you mentioned if so many valuable resources were not allocated to FTP slop and/or heavy monetization schemes. Some of what used to be my favorite franchises have been ruined by them.
To sum it up, I would like to see games like 33 outperform the profits made by games like Fortnite so more resources are allocated to great games. When heavily monetized FTP games are at the top of the list, we end up being stuck with a significant chunk of games that are not good. Or worst case scenario games that spend years in development, but get cancelled due to industry trend chasing.
Popsicle, I actually think we're getting more great games because of the slop. Developers are seeing that people aren't happy and taking advantage of big AAA studios not delivering for people.
Skewed and Reviewed have posted an Opinion Piece that explores options that can be brought to the Call of Duty series in order to address fatigue and fan frustration.
I used to be a big zombies player.Just go to old format no fluff no loadout,gobblegums just the old perks and the zombies.
shagri-LA was a hard zombies map that made it great! monkeys took perks zombies came fast they had the big fire zombies. great times.
Easy
Step 1. Remaster and release MW2 (original) MP with full support for many years to come.
Step 2. Release new COD once every 3-4 years and actually put quality and effort into campaign and MP.
Step 3. Keep OG Classic SBMM for normal non ranked playlists forever.
Step 4: COD Zombies should be it's own thing, it's own release every 3-4 years with 2 years of major content support. The only mode I enjoy playing anymore from cod.
...Not that they even need to anyways as they'll still sell, why they'll keep doing yearly releases with minimal effort.
Go back to being single player focused and make sequels to a few of the on off games.
wdym go back? cod has always had a major focus on mp, I put hundreds of hours into cod1 not because i was replaying the campaign for the 25th time in a row.
Reduce instal size
Support the Switch 2 like you said
Take a break... at least 2 years
Make the game less focused on MTX and Passes
Create something new with new assets
Stop with the stupid stories. Our at least make it interesting.
Everything microsoft touches turn to 💩😂.
Scumbag Bobby Kotick sold everything just right before the ship started sinking 🏃🏻♂️💨 .
they should stop the yearly cycle
I haven't played CoD, so I can't really comment on it. But after spending dozens of hours on BF6, I think I understand why it sold so well this time around.The game handles weapons, damage, and on-foot combat in a way that’s very close to CoD. I even booted up Bad Company 2 to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, and yeah, BF6 plays closer to CoD than to its own “bloodline.”
So I can totally see the usual CoD crowd picking it up because it looked interesting, and then feeling so at home with it that they completely ignored the actual CoD of the year.
Uh splendid early Christmas present. Choke on that one MS. “Oh Cods too big to fail” LMAO. Battlefield finally did it. They listen to the fans and gave us a game we wanted. To an extent but a very fun and addictive boots on the ground classic BF experience.
Finally