I agree with the author on one point - level design for MP has definitely gone downhill, has nothing to do with destructible environments though. CoD's maps have been terrible the past few games, you have to go back to CoD4 to find good, competitive maps.

A sniper is hiding behind that wall,killing every single man alive,some even by way of claymore..sir.
What kind of wall? hopefully not the indestructible kind?
Yes,that kind.
Oh...well in war,especially modern war,one must make sacrifices son.Send men until his claymores are gone and then rush him with everything we have.
Couldn't we just destroy the wall?
No,that detracts from gameplay and besides,this IS modern warfare.
I'm a little worried he may return upon respawn with more claymores but so can we..:/

What I got from this nonsense; "Waaah, I thinks it's a bad idea to have destructible buildings because I'm a camping pansy.. who pretends that other camping pansies can't sit in the same spot the entire game.. waaaaah. I think that team death match is all about me and my attack dogs and my attack chopper. I'm defending a shit game because I'm foolish enough to have bought it day one and there is no way someone is gonna call me dumb for that.... right? I mean geez, why would you want to play BFBC2? Battlefield is stupid because it's realistic and not so over the top it's retarded.. waaaah."

I don't mind campers,in fact I have a tendency to roast the odd marshmallow myself.
The real problem imo,is that in many games no effective way exists to deal with it.
My little plywood bunker of doom wouldn't seem such a clever idea if said bunker could be destroyed,leaving me exposed to the run&gun players previously frustrated by my cardboard Kremlin.
Even semi-destructible or set-event destruction/alteration can add an interesting,tactical dynamic that only adds to the game.
Calling in an Apache to mow down seven men standing in a field is ridiculous.How about directing its firepower towards the virtual Alcatraz that is an old barn claymored to the roof?
Good map design is important also.The two-way firing squad map with 2 shrubs in the corner and an old tractor in the middle are far too common.You can't place a cluster of abandoned train cars in the middle of a field and then wonder why 28/30 guys are hiding there...
Poor map design promotes the narrow minded clusterfu** where only one type of play is accepted because only one type of play really works....and the remaining perks and weapons and ideas are irrelevant.
In my opinion,the FPS game needs to evolve and fast.Instead of adding 30 useless weapons and 20 cool but useless perks maybe devote some time to map design,bullet penetration, environmental effects,support roles(instead of insta-medics with LMG's),weather/day/night cycles.

As a sniper in Bad Company 2 I have my KOA card and I'm proud of it. I don't camp just to be lazy I camp to lay down support for the Assault and engineer teams moving forward.

If i see an engineer repairing a tank I got his back, same goes for assault class capturing a flag or objective. Camping to me is about watching my teams back when no one is watching mine. Sure I hate getting stab in the back of my head but for the most part my team advances and suffers less kills when I'm on my A game. I love recon, yelling over the mic where the enemy is and seeing it all play out is fun.

Map design and the type of game your playing determines the ability to camp. You can't camp all day long in BC2 without your building being blowed up on you, catching a tank round in the face, or taking a knife to the dome. Some games have bad level designs therefore if you don't move no one can really see you and that's the poor design of the level.

Go ahead and camp but do it wisely or your team will loose. Kill streaks are nice but I play to win rounds. I sit tight for a minute or two then move forward as my squad progresses. Camping in COD is lame as the game is meant for Rambo play and the little hiding spots are for health regeneration. Camping in COD will not get you a lot of kills or increase your skills.

People also used to defend games that didn't have physics. Can't satisfy people who want Less.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau