After a less-than-stellar 12 months within the trenches of World Conflict 2, Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare II was speculated to be totally different. It was meant to sign the fantastic return to a modern-day setting spearheaded by Infinity Ward, the identical workforce that introduced 2019’s smash hit, Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare.
Fashionable Warfare II launched in November and ran up big numbers, raking in big opening weekend numbers, regardless of missing a noticeable quantity of content material and options which can be collection staples. That final bit doesn’t matter as a result of this 12 months’s CoD can be supported for 2 years, which means Infinity Ward could have time to repair every thing and hold the participant base joyful for 24 months whereas Treyarch works on the subsequent entry, proper?
Nicely, that pipe dream got here crashing down final week when Insider Gaming leaked that the rumored “premium DLC” coming to Fashionable Warfare II can be a full-price title, with the beta and early entry marketing campaign dates to again it up. The timing couldn’t have been any worse, as at some point earlier than the rumor, the roadmap for the delayed season two was revealed, and followers had been fuming on the absolute barebones quantity of content material current. For sure, the rumor was met with big backlash, as Name of Obligation continues to shatter the remaining group it has.
There are numerous explanation why this rumor being true can be the last word insult to damage from the juggernaut FPS. Primarily, many gamers, myself included, have been taking part in CoD yearly since 2007, bringing an unholy stage of army fatigue with us each step of the way in which. Conversely, as Name of Obligation has developed, it’s develop into obvious that the builders are stretched extraordinarily skinny, with Warzone including one more layer to supply content material for, together with a minimal of a working marketing campaign, multiplayer, and no matter horde mode is within the subsequent iteration.
What makes the final a part of the earlier assertion worse is the value level. For the reason that introduction of next-generation consoles, Name of Obligation has managed to weasel its means into charging gamers $70 for a recreation that severely lacks content material. Annually since 2019’s Fashionable Warfare, the introduction of Warzone and the seasonal mannequin has constricted what gamers obtain at launch as content material is drip-fed over the course of a 12 months, in what has been an especially lazy try at trying like top-tier content material suppliers. Now image spending $70 for Name of Obligation for the previous three years with minimal content material at launch and the company promise of “immense post-launch content material” solely to obtain two remade maps from earlier CoD titles.
Fashionable Warfare II promised the above, and it’s develop into laughingly conscious that’s not the case. Activision by no means promised a two-year cycle, however why ought to we purchase a brand new recreation, when the final one received’t be wherever close to full when the subsequent one launches? On high of that, Sledgehammer Video games made final 12 months’s iteration, and if this rumor proves true with this exact same workforce connected to the subsequent, how good might this undertaking be with just one 12 months to ship a recreation with all of the bells and whistles? Wouldn’t it even work out the $70 field?
If this rumored undertaking seems to be actual, count on to be deep in Name of Obligation for seventeen years with out respite. It’d be one factor if the standard continued to enhance, nevertheless it hasn’t, changing into a online game punchline. Whereas I don’t notably like Fashionable Warfare II, I don’t like watching the collection that I grew up with falling so removed from grace, and I don’t suppose any fan ought to both.
Preserve this one within the archives, Activision. We don’t need it.
