"Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer]

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• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Bricky shredded the single player campaign.

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• albsen@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m so tired of games that have the weapons you’d like to use behind a paywall I hope they all crash and burn. COD just as much as Battlefield. I might simply go back to playing CS 1.6.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or weapons you have to grind for all season long because they are overpowered and the meta, only to have the game publisher and developer nerf it back to normal and fair balanced specs AFTER the season comes out and they get their money from people playing for tier skips to get it faster in the season…

    … Only for next season for the exact same meta chasing bullshit treadmill again

    Call of Duty MW II (new) did that shit with the incendiary shotgun but only after the season ended

    I quit the entire series cold turkey and only after that played the Cold War campaign (since I never played it)

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s usually just cosmetics though, right?

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• missingno@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sounds like the problem is just trying to chase infinite growth, expecting every game to sell more than the last.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Maybe people are finally getting bored of the ssme old shit repackaged year after year 🤷‍♂️

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• Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s the funny skins and convoluted menu. I don’t want to play Fortnite with my Call of Duty and I don’t know how to get to the campaign or multiplayer options.

  Also, why do I need a 1-billion GB app to launch the game I’m playing?

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• redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not worth $70. For an annual rehash like madden, FIFA or 2K nope. You can only sell Nazi zombies so many times.

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• rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  why can’t it just go back to like it was way back in the day with like 8 on 8 or whatever and a solid single player? why do I need to be able to look like a Gundam to shoot people?

  If I want to play a shooter with silly characters i’ll play Fortnite.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They seem to not understand what made the good games good, and then when a game does do well, they try to milk it. The yearly releases are likely too much as well.

  Black ops 3 was cool -> ruined with predatory micro transactions. anyone remember how they would pair you with people who had the items you were viewing in the loot box menu in an attempt to get you to purchase? And then the odds were stupidly low to actually get the items.

  The modern warfare reboot was cool. But again they slowly ruined it entry after entry.

  Black ops was kinda neat last year. Then they tried to milk it again.

  Idk I’m kinda rambling here but if you’ve played most of the titles I think it makes sense as to why people aren’t always getting every one at this point

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