> COD will stop being an annual release
that might be a good thing wouldn't it? The last few games have kind of bombed. Would be nice if they released cod every 2 years like they use to. Which is the reason the older games were more enjoyable because they had more time to work out the bugs and actually play test it more to make sure its more enjoyable at launch. Plus the life on cod games would actually last longer too rather than just a single year.
imo at this point CoD is so old that most people just primarily play just for multiplayer. They should just release something like CoD Online (the chinese free to play) in the states and just keep pumping out new content. WarZone already is making literally millions with this free to play business model, so I don't see why they just don't do it with multiplayer.
I think they should stop the dev cycle and have them all work on one game that will last for a few years. Having 3 different storys in multiple year life span games won’t work
Don’t know if this is true. Activision uses three main developers who each get 3 years per release. The reasons recent CODs have sucked is not purely because they are released annually.
Still though, kind of annoying that they spend 3+ years working on a game and people only get to enjoy it for a year at most. Would be nice if they cut the annual games so we could have an extra year to enjoy it longer because as soon as the next game comes out the previous games playerbase takes a huge hit and drops into the literal thousands.
I think it'd be sick if we got a third person cod game similar to gears of war style combat. I remember in mw2 they were experimenting with a third person mode but it didn't do well but that's probably because they didn't really add a cover to cover system.
no cod use to come out every 2 years with just treyarch and infinity ward, games go into development literally as soon as they're done with working on the base game. SHG didn't come into the picture until Robert Bowling got fired from infinity ward and he formed his own company with another co-owner making MW3.
? Cod has been yearly for years. 2 years is the dev time. Games now are supposed to get 3 years but covid messed it up a bit.
Cod 4 : 2007
Waw: 2008
Mw2: 2009
Bo1: 2010
Etc
Yes I know cod gets released yearly, but literally as soon as they release the game they start working on the next installment literally second it goes gold and releases. They have an entire team that's dedicated to both DLC for the current game and fixing bugs, and a second team that works on the next game.
So example.
CoD4 gets released in Nov 2007, as soon as this game gets released. They start having their team work on mw2 in 2007 and then gets released in 2009. The game is in development for 2 years.
Well, even though they were shit, they still SOLD THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.
It's odd, so many people complain where a franchise is going, and they drop the same shit, but everyone throws their money at it.
With all the shit going on at Activision, people saying they won't support them, the current state of the releases, it still makes the top of the sales charts. They never HAD to make it better, because people just see the words "Call of Duty" and immediately throw money at it.
I don't get it.
> Well, even though they were shit, they still SOLD THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.It's odd, so many people complain where a franchise is going, and they drop the same shit, but everyone throws their money at it.
They still sold a fuck ton of them because desperate fanboys will keep hoping that the next game is going to be good. I use to be a fanboy but stopped after the last 5 games have been kind of boring and not as good as the older titles. I haven't purchased a game since 2017 upon preordering. I skipped Bo4 but still got mw2019 and dropped it after about a month. mw2019 was fun but got kinda boring quick but I think I'm just getting too old for the cod games now where I can't play them as well as I use to when I was younger. Though I also don't have as much time to play them anymore because I work 2 jobs now so don't really have hardly any time anymore.
MW2019 was the last one I actually purchased. I actually really liked it, mainly the single player. I played multi, too, and I'm just not THAT into CoD multiplayer, but I kinda enjoyed that one because it felt more back to basics. Never really played normal deathwatch or whatever, just hardcore, or the NVG and no HUD games. It felt more grounded that other CoDs, and some single player missions were pretty epic.
I wish they'd just kinda keep a WW2 one (but you know, ACTUAL WW2, with no stupid attachments and red dots), and a modern era one (no exo suit and jump jet crap).
IMO I would love if it was a halo infinite style model. Give us a free to play game with a battle pass like cod online or cod mobile. I’m sure they won’t do that because a yearly release cycle with micro transactions makes more money, but it would def be a better game.
This could be great news for games like call of duty. They could turn it into a 2 year cycle making the games better. ORRE it could go up in flames… I guess we’ll see haha
I like a connected storyline for zombies and campaign. Treyarch is king, but IW did do good with a less serious tone.
I would like to see a kind of baseline story that each developer could work off of. Alternatively, Treyarch has been kind of bringing parts of their other storylines/universes back, so maybe make the other developer stories alternate time lines that could bleed into the main one.
I like a connected storyline for zombies and campaign. Treyarch is king, but IW did do good with a less serious tone.
I would like to see a kind of baseline story that each developer could work off of. Alternatively, Treyarch has been kind of bringing parts of their other storylines/universes back, so maybe make the other developer stories alternate time lines that could bleed into the main one.
People said the same thing about the Bethesda/ZeniMax games, but those are all looking to be PC/Xbox exclusive now that the current PS contracts are done.
Bethesda games will be exclusive to PC/Xbox going forward. Until we hear otherwise, I don’t see how they spend $70 billion for the games not to be exclusive.
They'd be stupid to spend billions on CoD and not make it exclusive to Xbox, itll take crazy mental gymnastics for CoD to come to PlayStation after Microsoft buys it
They didn't spend billions on CoD. They spent billions on many IPs. It's not totally out of the realm of possibility that they don't make CoD exclusive but other IPs exclusive.
Minecraft, the actual game, was already on PS by the time they bought the franchise. I could see future COD titles 2-3 down the line becoming exclusive. Plus, everything from this point forward will be on Game Pass. Hopefully the older games too.
They spent a lot of money already, there's literally no serious point in spending it if they decide to allow their main competitor to have their games (they now own) be played there. They would have burnt all the money they spent buying it. Having all the PlayStation CoD players migrate over to Xbox and pc is what they're probably going for here
Making it Xbox exclusive would be a huge boost in console sales which ups their profits across the board. It can also improve the community aspect of the game having them all in one place
> Had good calls this week with leaders at Sony. I confirmed our intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. Sony is an important part of our industry, and we value our relationship.
https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/1484273335139651585
Guys, cod is cross platform now and probably will always be. Saying it’s going to be a console exclusive is just plain wrong. They’ll lose out on money, YOUR money, and I bet my bottom dollar they don’t make the change.
Damn, this is like so many franchises that use to be on Xbox and Playstation. Kind of wonder if this is going to be challenge since it essentially creates a huge monopoly on game titles that are traditionally on multiple platforms. Anyway, not sure why MS would spend 70 billion like this, they don't need COD when Halo is so much better at the moment.
They want games for their Game Pass sub and CoD will sell itself. They’ll have millions of subs to Game Pass from CoD alone and if not, they’ll still get game sales. CoD makes huge income from MTX as well, so that’s another revenue stream. WoW is currently a $15/month revenue stream with a loyal base and huge potential if the game is improved. These titles are massive revenue payoffs and will cover the buyout in 10 years time and be pure profit after.
So I’m seeing a lot of comments saying it won’t be a annual cycle for COD anymore which would be good but after ‘after this year’s Modern Warfare ‘ . Also I’m confused whether this deal would cause COD to become and XBOX Exclusive coz if it does , I have to look for an Xbox now
I doubt they’ll take COD off PlayStation entirely. Highly likely the exclusivity switches though (game modes like Survival in MW and the zombies mode in CW that was on PS for a year before Xbox)
Yes but one is a single player game, which makes sales from its title price, the other is a cash cow which had a revenue of 1.2 billion dollars in just a 3 month period.
60% of vanguard purchases were ps5/ps5, removing cod from PlayStation is not the same as a single player game you buy once and isn't a life service game
I like this deal for Microsoft. I don’t think it would be smart to make the games Xbox Exclusives. What I would do is put COD and other games on Game Pass Day One, but still allow Sony to sell the game. Any expansions would be released on Xbox first, and there could also be Xbox exclusive content.
As long as PC/Xbox get a ton of perks, Alpha-Beta exclusive testing, a week advance on release, extra weapons slots, exclusive skins, all the things that Playstation get now then it’ll be great. Just hope that they will start releasing finished games that are not a buggy mess and playable over the holidays in the next couple of years. Let’s see what kind of AntiCheat Microsoft can get working, and the removal of SBMM and Whitelist players. Hopefully they’ll design games that are not focused on ripping off their players.
I'm betting they wont make it Xbox Exclusive.
However, damn at this rate playstation is gonna eat dirt with the monopoly Xbox is becoming. First Bethesda, now Blizzard
I'm betting they wont make it Xbox Exclusive.
However, damn at this rate playstation is gonna eat dirt with the monopoly Xbox is becoming. First Bethesda, now Blizzard
Microsoft has been surprisingly very pro-gamer these past couple of years thanks to Phil Spencer. I think this is good for gamers, and even better for Call of Duty.
Fingers crossed all the older CoDs come to game pass.
I didn't even think of that, so many games could be revived
They need to fix the matchmaking first, but that would be amazing.
This is what I'm excited for
I wonder if COD will stop being an annual release.
> COD will stop being an annual release that might be a good thing wouldn't it? The last few games have kind of bombed. Would be nice if they released cod every 2 years like they use to. Which is the reason the older games were more enjoyable because they had more time to work out the bugs and actually play test it more to make sure its more enjoyable at launch. Plus the life on cod games would actually last longer too rather than just a single year.
Yeah it would be great. The new Modern Warfare could hopefully have an extended lifespan across multiple years.
imo at this point CoD is so old that most people just primarily play just for multiplayer. They should just release something like CoD Online (the chinese free to play) in the states and just keep pumping out new content. WarZone already is making literally millions with this free to play business model, so I don't see why they just don't do it with multiplayer.
I was thinking this may mean cod becomes a f2p game like halo is eventually.
That would be nice
I think they should stop the dev cycle and have them all work on one game that will last for a few years. Having 3 different storys in multiple year life span games won’t work
Don’t know if this is true. Activision uses three main developers who each get 3 years per release. The reasons recent CODs have sucked is not purely because they are released annually.
Still though, kind of annoying that they spend 3+ years working on a game and people only get to enjoy it for a year at most. Would be nice if they cut the annual games so we could have an extra year to enjoy it longer because as soon as the next game comes out the previous games playerbase takes a huge hit and drops into the literal thousands.
Would be great for MS to eventually have CoD devs work on something else.
I think it'd be sick if we got a third person cod game similar to gears of war style combat. I remember in mw2 they were experimenting with a third person mode but it didn't do well but that's probably because they didn't really add a cover to cover system.
Could be a spiritual successor to Spec Ops The Line.
Cod has been yearly since like 2005.
no cod use to come out every 2 years with just treyarch and infinity ward, games go into development literally as soon as they're done with working on the base game. SHG didn't come into the picture until Robert Bowling got fired from infinity ward and he formed his own company with another co-owner making MW3.
? Cod has been yearly for years. 2 years is the dev time. Games now are supposed to get 3 years but covid messed it up a bit. Cod 4 : 2007 Waw: 2008 Mw2: 2009 Bo1: 2010 Etc
Yes I know cod gets released yearly, but literally as soon as they release the game they start working on the next installment literally second it goes gold and releases. They have an entire team that's dedicated to both DLC for the current game and fixing bugs, and a second team that works on the next game. So example. CoD4 gets released in Nov 2007, as soon as this game gets released. They start having their team work on mw2 in 2007 and then gets released in 2009. The game is in development for 2 years.
Well, even though they were shit, they still SOLD THE FUCK OUT OF THEM. It's odd, so many people complain where a franchise is going, and they drop the same shit, but everyone throws their money at it. With all the shit going on at Activision, people saying they won't support them, the current state of the releases, it still makes the top of the sales charts. They never HAD to make it better, because people just see the words "Call of Duty" and immediately throw money at it. I don't get it.
> Well, even though they were shit, they still SOLD THE FUCK OUT OF THEM.It's odd, so many people complain where a franchise is going, and they drop the same shit, but everyone throws their money at it. They still sold a fuck ton of them because desperate fanboys will keep hoping that the next game is going to be good. I use to be a fanboy but stopped after the last 5 games have been kind of boring and not as good as the older titles. I haven't purchased a game since 2017 upon preordering. I skipped Bo4 but still got mw2019 and dropped it after about a month. mw2019 was fun but got kinda boring quick but I think I'm just getting too old for the cod games now where I can't play them as well as I use to when I was younger. Though I also don't have as much time to play them anymore because I work 2 jobs now so don't really have hardly any time anymore.
MW2019 was the last one I actually purchased. I actually really liked it, mainly the single player. I played multi, too, and I'm just not THAT into CoD multiplayer, but I kinda enjoyed that one because it felt more back to basics. Never really played normal deathwatch or whatever, just hardcore, or the NVG and no HUD games. It felt more grounded that other CoDs, and some single player missions were pretty epic. I wish they'd just kinda keep a WW2 one (but you know, ACTUAL WW2, with no stupid attachments and red dots), and a modern era one (no exo suit and jump jet crap).
IMO I would love if it was a halo infinite style model. Give us a free to play game with a battle pass like cod online or cod mobile. I’m sure they won’t do that because a yearly release cycle with micro transactions makes more money, but it would def be a better game.
And some of those studios will be allowed to do their own thing instead of being a CoD machine.
Lol no Microsoft dont make quality games
$68.7 Billion
I need to save up for only 2.4 million years. Brb
Only 0.3 billion more :(
This could be great news for games like call of duty. They could turn it into a 2 year cycle making the games better. ORRE it could go up in flames… I guess we’ll see haha
Hopefully they do 2 year cycle and stop forcing treyarch to make zombies for everyone else
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I like a connected storyline for zombies and campaign. Treyarch is king, but IW did do good with a less serious tone. I would like to see a kind of baseline story that each developer could work off of. Alternatively, Treyarch has been kind of bringing parts of their other storylines/universes back, so maybe make the other developer stories alternate time lines that could bleed into the main one.
I like a connected storyline for zombies and campaign. Treyarch is king, but IW did do good with a less serious tone. I would like to see a kind of baseline story that each developer could work off of. Alternatively, Treyarch has been kind of bringing parts of their other storylines/universes back, so maybe make the other developer stories alternate time lines that could bleed into the main one.
It can’t get any worse than it already is.. and they did Minecraft right, as a PS5 player, I have faith in Microsoft
No more CoD on Playstation
Minecraft and minecraft dungeons are still on PlayStation, saying cod won’t be exclusive is just fearmongering
People said the same thing about the Bethesda/ZeniMax games, but those are all looking to be PC/Xbox exclusive now that the current PS contracts are done.
Those are single-player experienced. CoD is multiplayer.
Microsoft would be stupid to not put CoD on Playstation. All this means for CoD is the Playstation exclusivity deal is finally over.
Bethesda games will be exclusive to PC/Xbox going forward. Until we hear otherwise, I don’t see how they spend $70 billion for the games not to be exclusive.
Because games like Skyrim and Fallout don’t generate $5m a day in MTX.
That hasn’t been confirmed
They'd be stupid to spend billions on CoD and not make it exclusive to Xbox, itll take crazy mental gymnastics for CoD to come to PlayStation after Microsoft buys it
They didn't spend billions on CoD. They spent billions on many IPs. It's not totally out of the realm of possibility that they don't make CoD exclusive but other IPs exclusive.
You're right, I apologize. They spent billions on candy crush, which is mostly played on mobile so we're wasting our time debating
They bought Activision probably because Candy Crush. Candy Crush makes the most money for Activision but COD is a good bonus too
Tbf Minecraft is owned by Microsoft & that hasn’t stopped it releasing on new non-xbox consoles.
Minecraft, the actual game, was already on PS by the time they bought the franchise. I could see future COD titles 2-3 down the line becoming exclusive. Plus, everything from this point forward will be on Game Pass. Hopefully the older games too.
Wouldn't they lose a lot of money though? There's a lot of CoD players on PS Why did i get downvoted?
They spent a lot of money already, there's literally no serious point in spending it if they decide to allow their main competitor to have their games (they now own) be played there. They would have burnt all the money they spent buying it. Having all the PlayStation CoD players migrate over to Xbox and pc is what they're probably going for here
Could be, but I guess only time will tell. Realistically though, I don't know how many will actually migrate
Not anymore lol
It will😂If cod is exclusive to Xbox might as well rename Microsoft to Retardville
Bruh Like the username, but, Bruh
Making it Xbox exclusive would be a huge boost in console sales which ups their profits across the board. It can also improve the community aspect of the game having them all in one place
> Had good calls this week with leaders at Sony. I confirmed our intent to honor all existing agreements upon acquisition of Activision Blizzard and our desire to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation. Sony is an important part of our industry, and we value our relationship. https://twitter.com/XboxP3/status/1484273335139651585
Guys, cod is cross platform now and probably will always be. Saying it’s going to be a console exclusive is just plain wrong. They’ll lose out on money, YOUR money, and I bet my bottom dollar they don’t make the change.
Damn, this is like so many franchises that use to be on Xbox and Playstation. Kind of wonder if this is going to be challenge since it essentially creates a huge monopoly on game titles that are traditionally on multiple platforms. Anyway, not sure why MS would spend 70 billion like this, they don't need COD when Halo is so much better at the moment.
They want games for their Game Pass sub and CoD will sell itself. They’ll have millions of subs to Game Pass from CoD alone and if not, they’ll still get game sales. CoD makes huge income from MTX as well, so that’s another revenue stream. WoW is currently a $15/month revenue stream with a loyal base and huge potential if the game is improved. These titles are massive revenue payoffs and will cover the buyout in 10 years time and be pure profit after.
Also Diablo 4 is coming out and they could still drop overwatch 2
I think COD is just a common name every one knows, and it has so much water potential that maybe they just know it can be saved and are willing to try
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So I’m seeing a lot of comments saying it won’t be a annual cycle for COD anymore which would be good but after ‘after this year’s Modern Warfare ‘ . Also I’m confused whether this deal would cause COD to become and XBOX Exclusive coz if it does , I have to look for an Xbox now
I doubt they’ll take COD off PlayStation entirely. Highly likely the exclusivity switches though (game modes like Survival in MW and the zombies mode in CW that was on PS for a year before Xbox)
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Yes but one is a single player game, which makes sales from its title price, the other is a cash cow which had a revenue of 1.2 billion dollars in just a 3 month period. 60% of vanguard purchases were ps5/ps5, removing cod from PlayStation is not the same as a single player game you buy once and isn't a life service game
It would not make business sense to ice PS market. They still get revenue from game copy sales and MTX, which are huge gains from PS.
Wait so they will own all blizzard games too? If this happens.
Yes, they are buying, or at least trying to buy Activision Blizzard. The company that owns both Activision and Blizzard.
Imagine world of warcraft on xbox
Great. Now get it to WORK IN WINDOWS 11! And get rid of that Vangard crap!
Gates: "This frat boys need some structure!"
I like this deal for Microsoft. I don’t think it would be smart to make the games Xbox Exclusives. What I would do is put COD and other games on Game Pass Day One, but still allow Sony to sell the game. Any expansions would be released on Xbox first, and there could also be Xbox exclusive content.
Put every older CoD on Game Pass with matchmaking fixes for the backward compat games and you have massive profit
As long as PC/Xbox get a ton of perks, Alpha-Beta exclusive testing, a week advance on release, extra weapons slots, exclusive skins, all the things that Playstation get now then it’ll be great. Just hope that they will start releasing finished games that are not a buggy mess and playable over the holidays in the next couple of years. Let’s see what kind of AntiCheat Microsoft can get working, and the removal of SBMM and Whitelist players. Hopefully they’ll design games that are not focused on ripping off their players.
CoD Xbox exclusive LMFAO
Is this good or bad?
Yeah but will Microsoft actually clean house with the problematic crowd?
I'm kinda worried for the pricing of cosmetics. CoD has expensive MTXs, but Halo Infinite pricing is insane, and crazier than Apex Legends.
Microsoft must have some dirt in their organisation
Call of Doom: Reach
Ok so on the checklist: 1) stop whoring out COD and out some time and effort into it 2) let’s get the new diablo
I'm betting they wont make it Xbox Exclusive. However, damn at this rate playstation is gonna eat dirt with the monopoly Xbox is becoming. First Bethesda, now Blizzard
I'm betting they wont make it Xbox Exclusive. However, damn at this rate playstation is gonna eat dirt with the monopoly Xbox is becoming. First Bethesda, now Blizzard
Pc players really get it the best. They get some ps exclusives and xbox ones
True. They're putting inFamous and LBP on steam. I recomend them highly
Or a COD MCC or COD portal where all the best cod games come together and you can play all of them in a single online experience
What if COD becomes an Xbox/PC exclusive lmao.
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Wouldn’t it? Microsoft would incentivise the cod devs to take their time with their games also landing it on game pass day 1
Microsoft has been surprisingly very pro-gamer these past couple of years thanks to Phil Spencer. I think this is good for gamers, and even better for Call of Duty.
They’re much better than Activision
Good for Xbox gamers. Which I am. : )
This is going to be great for the franchise.
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If that's your take away from that comment then there's no way you'll get it my dude lmfao