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Community sentiments towards Call of Duty are at an all-time low. With Modern Warfare 3’s launch being fairly disastrous following the even heavier monetisation of the franchise, user reviews for the game have never been worse. With the title now sitting at a pretty horrific 69% of reviews hammering the game, things aren’t looking good.
Black Ops 6 is on the way, and will likely receive fairly warm reviews from critics and players. This is usually the case out of the gate, before the realisation of the live-service monetisation structure kicks in. At least, that was the case for Modern Warfare III, which followed on from the incredibly successful launch of MW2.
“CoD is dead on PC,” writes on user reviewer. “Way too many hackers online, devs do nothing to combat it. They would rather sell you a Teletubby skin for £15.” Another claims that it “makes actual trash look good.”
The problem with Call of Duty now is heavily focused on its rampant money-making schemes. It’s taken the Fortnite route with brand collaborations, and it’s learned from EA’s advertising policy too. Despite paying for the base game, you will still be “bombarded” with in-game advertisements that bury what could be a working user experience in distracting sales mumbo-jumbo.
With Modern Warfare 3 landing on Xbox Game Pass just a week before Black Ops 6 launches, it’s unlikely that adding a slew of new players to the game will do anything to heal Activision’s reputation now.
It’s likely that the moment that Black Ops 6 hits the market, Modern Warfare 3 will be dead in the water. If anything, it should never have even released. It came less than a year after Modern Warfare 2, which fared a much more successful launch than its sequel. In terms of gameplay changes, there were very few. The only real changes included maps, weapons, and game modes, and there were plenty of demands from consumers that it should have just been a DLC for the first one.
At this point, I don’t even see the live-service Call of Duty titles as anything more than a combat themed e-commerce platform for worthless skins and collaborations.
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