the way call of duty fumbled war zone should be studied

[WMG the 2nd]

went from 50 million downloads and 100 million player base in 2020 height of covid to dropping aggressively like flies, buggier now than it was when it first dropped five years ago, aggressively bad experience for casual players, hackers abundant, and grossly bloated stores full of meta guns while bragging about 100 plus guns yet only 4 are ever good every 4 months

 

[DPresidential]

Facts

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I feel like all my friends that played it went back to regular COD multiplayer

 

[Easy-E]

I stop playing regularly years ago.

They use it to trick ppl into playing the newest game's engine and it got tired after they made you play with Vanguard guns. Hell nah.

I stick to multiplayer.

 

[KnickstapeCity]

I feel like all my friends that played it went back to regular COD multiplayer

Fukking fakkit

 

[Regular_P]

Fukking fakkit

They even ruined death comms like this.

 

[Deezay]

World at War was the best one to me

 

[Regular_P]

It's a fact that the game has gotten even worse since Microsoft took over. The servers and lack of stability have never been worse. Hit reg, audio, input, everything is absolutely abysmal.

Warzone should be its own thing. Activision themselves said that was their reasoning for scrapping Warzone 1 and forcing everyone onto Warzone 2. But the game has gone through dramatic changes for now the third straight iteration of Warzone 2. Everything about the game has fundamentally changed for three straight years.

Counter-Strike has been the same game for over 20 years. Apex, PUBG and Fortnite have been the same core games for longer than Warzone. If someone last played one of those games a couple years ago, they're going back to the same fundamental experiences. With Warzone, it's not even the same as six months ago.

MS agreed to buy Activision in January of 2022, which was near the height of Warzone's popularity. COD is an institution like Madden and 2K, so the games are always going to sell heavy but they have definitely lost millions of players since the acquisition. That's why they're using PR bullshyt like "highest retention rate" and "most hours played per person" instead of actual sales.

What's happened is kinda like Philly signing Paul George. But while Philly can't lead PG to the Fountain of Youth, Microsoft COULD upgrade their servers and bring back Warzone 1, which everyone loved. They COULD create a functioning anti-cheat. They COULD create meaningful content and additions to Warzone. There's so many bugs it's not even funny.

We used to get consistent updates to the map with new points of interest, changing POIs and cool events like Nakatomi Tower in Verdsansk with Die Hard. With the Black Ops 6 integration, they REMOVED the POIs they added over the year to Urzikstan and reset it back to how it was day one, when it was already a trash map. Completely unacceptable and inexcusable; just reeks of incompetence.

Since Warzone released in 2020, we've had the following maps: Verdansk, Rebirth Island, Caldera, Fortune's Keep, Al Mazrah, Ashika Island, Urzikstan and Area 99. The only fukking things available today are Urzikstan, Rebirth and Area 99.

Apex has 11 or 12 maps; PUBG has five or six; Warzone has three.

It's clear they despise their player base and have no respect for their audience.

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

They got way too comfortable at the top and just allowed all the bullshyt and bad design choices to accumulate.

Same shyt going on with Apex Legends, where people play these two games because theyre the best online shooter experiences right now, but a large portion of players are tired of the developer's decisions.

This is why Marvel Rivals was able to peel away so many players from the top shooters. People were waiting on something good to replace these tired sweaty and broken online experiences.

 

[Slow Moving]

Battle Royale was garbage fad that needs to die off.

 

[Marks]

It's a fact that the game has gotten even worse since Microsoft took over. The servers and lack of stability have never been worse. Hit reg, audio, input, everything is absolutely abysmal.

Warzone should be its own thing. Activision themselves said that was their reasoning for scrapping Warzone 1 and forcing everyone onto Warzone 2. But the game has gone through dramatic changes for now the third straight iteration of Warzone 2. Everything about the game has fundamentally changed for three straight years.

Counter-Strike has been the same game for over 20 years. Apex, PUBG and Fortnite have been the same core games for longer than Warzone. If someone last played one of those games a couple years ago, they're going back to the same fundamental experiences. With Warzone, it's not even the same as six months ago.

MS agreed to buy Activision in January of 2022, which was near the height of Warzone's popularity. COD is an institution like Madden and 2K, so the games are always going to sell heavy but they have definitely lost millions of players since the acquisition. That's why they're using PR bullshyt like "highest retention rate" and "most hours played per person" instead of actual sales.

What's happened is kinda like Philly signing Paul George. But while Philly can't lead PG to the Fountain of Youth, Microsoft COULD upgrade their servers and bring back Warzone 1, which everyone loved. They COULD create a functioning anti-cheat. They COULD create meaningful content and additions to Warzone. There's so many bugs it's not even funny.

We used to get consistent updates to the map with new points of interest, changing POIs and cool events like Nakatomi Tower in Verdsansk with Die Hard. With the Black Ops 6 integration, they REMOVED the POIs they added over the year to Urzikstan and reset it back to how it was day one, when it was already a trash map. Completely unacceptable and inexcusable; just reeks of incompetence.

Since Warzone released in 2020, we've had the following maps: Verdansk, Rebirth Island, Caldera, Fortune's Keep, Al Mazrah, Ashika Island, Urzikstan and Area 99. The only fukking things available today are Urzikstan, Rebirth and Area 99.

Apex has 11 or 12 maps; PUBG has five or six; Warzone has three.

It's clear they despise their player base and have no respect for their audience.

1000% I absolutely get why they did this shyt the way they did (it's just a giant cash funnel) but if they coulda have stopped for a second and thought about long term logistics of maintaining this bullshyt...

 

[BlaccSunrise]

Voice chat moderation killed COD for me.

Can't even talk shyt to the opps without risking suspensions and bans

 

[Rice N Beans]

1000% I absolutely get why they did this shyt the way they did (it's just a giant cash funnel) but if they coulda have stopped for a second and thought about long term logistics of maintaining this bullshyt...

Those doofies at MS own the Azure cloud system and if they were willing to let Halo suffer with poor networking and lackluster server power, I'm not surprised they'd let CoD go through stingy homicide as well.

They just want the IP because they think of everything like Windows or Office. I expected CoD to eventually languish but man whatever hand they have taints everything. Rare being cornered to Kinect games should have been the big sign on their acquisition foresight.

 

[Bathing Ape]

It's a fact that the game has gotten even worse since Microsoft took over. The servers and lack of stability have never been worse. Hit reg, audio, input, everything is absolutely abysmal.

Warzone should be its own thing. Activision themselves said that was their reasoning for scrapping Warzone 1 and forcing everyone onto Warzone 2. But the game has gone through dramatic changes for now the third straight iteration of Warzone 2. Everything about the game has fundamentally changed for three straight years.

Counter-Strike has been the same game for over 20 years. Apex, PUBG and Fortnite have been the same core games for longer than Warzone. If someone last played one of those games a couple years ago, they're going back to the same fundamental experiences. With Warzone, it's not even the same as six months ago.

MS agreed to buy Activision in January of 2022, which was near the height of Warzone's popularity. COD is an institution like Madden and 2K, so the games are always going to sell heavy but they have definitely lost millions of players since the acquisition. That's why they're using PR bullshyt like "highest retention rate" and "most hours played per person" instead of actual sales.

What's happened is kinda like Philly signing Paul George. But while Philly can't lead PG to the Fountain of Youth, Microsoft COULD upgrade their servers and bring back Warzone 1, which everyone loved. They COULD create a functioning anti-cheat. They COULD create meaningful content and additions to Warzone. There's so many bugs it's not even funny.

We used to get consistent updates to the map with new points of interest, changing POIs and cool events like Nakatomi Tower in Verdsansk with Die Hard. With the Black Ops 6 integration, they REMOVED the POIs they added over the year to Urzikstan and reset it back to how it was day one, when it was already a trash map. Completely unacceptable and inexcusable; just reeks of incompetence.

Since Warzone released in 2020, we've had the following maps: Verdansk, Rebirth Island, Caldera, Fortune's Keep, Al Mazrah, Ashika Island, Urzikstan and Area 99. The only fukking things available today are Urzikstan, Rebirth and Area 99.

Apex has 11 or 12 maps; PUBG has five or six; Warzone has three.

It's clear they despise their player base and have no respect for their audience.

Please explain how this is Microsoft fault lol

 

[WMG the 2nd]

Please explain how this is Microsoft fault lol