Just Cause Dev Doesn't See a Future For Call of Duty

[Kahani]

I don't think Call of Duty will die. While people do end up getting sick of it, younger kiddies will get the game. As time moves on, so will they (most of them atleast), and another wave of kids will move in to nag their mums for CoD.

I wouldn't bet on it. In the past, you could have said exactly the same thing about Quake or Half-life. Shooters are certainly not about to go anywhere, but there's no guarantee the same franchises will be the prominent ones. If anything, the current domination of CoD is an anomaly, not the norm.

 

[Guffe]

I wish they would drop the 'single-player' campaigns they do, because they are turning themselves into a joke. A 4 hour single-player campaign time isn't a game, it's just a long tutorial. And with Ghosts throwing a dartboard at a globe to pick the 'bad guy' is getting old fast.

I wish they hit Finland soon!

USA invade Finland would look like this

You start as Obama (or the current president) at you workdesk
You pick up the phone
You dial our (Finlands) president
You get to pick what to talk about (like 4 options)
From the start you have the choice to pick "surrender and become a part of us or we invade you" (or something similar)
But no matter what course you take, start by chitchatting or whatever, you always end up with the comment above in the end
Finlands president can't argue against you
END of CAMPAIGN

Most likely that's all the persuasion we'd need to surrender.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Battlefield already has a Free2Play version, and it sucks:

http://battlefield.play4free.com/en/

Call of Duty and Battlefield will remain successful as long as the companies can convince the audience that they are constantly improving with each version. The problem is convincing the next generation that COD and Battlefield are the franchises to get into, as newer series will pop up that bleed potential customers (Titanfall is a perfect example here) a young teenager without any previous gaming experience getting an Xbox One or PS4 for Christmas will be looking for a shiny new FPS to play, and which will they more likely begin with, the 6th sequel to a game, or the first instalment in a whole new promising franchise?

That's how the playerbase for COD and Battlefield will fall: by the next generation passing over their sequels for new franchises, leaving the COD/BF playerbase with an aging, dwindling population that changes it's formula to try and fit the new gimmicks of the new franchises, and ends up failing to gain a new audience and shunning the old audience.

That's what happened to Medal of Honor.

 

[KOMega]

By all accounts it should fail, but now I think it is too big to fail.

Especially as gaming becomes more and more widespread. I mean it is pretty widespread now, but it still there is some room to spread a bit more.

I recently found people who apparently play sports games a lot and only sports games. Doesn't even want to look at any game unless it's a sports game. I didn't think those people exist but they do.

People find their respective niches and they will buy what. If they have fallen into that COD only niche, then that is pretty much what they will buy.

That plus I think COD for intents and purposes is the first thing to come to anyones mind outside of the gaming community when they think of gaming as a whole. The public image and icon of gaming.

That and Mario. Everybody knows Mario.

 

[BoredAussieGamer]

He probably can't see CoD's future because it's buried under all the money it's making.

If he thinks something as successful as CoD and its ilk will just vanish, he's deluded.

Nothing is forever. Even the mightiest titans eventually fall.

Back to the OT, I have to agree with the guy to an extent. This is a trend that will eventually end. It may die next year, it may live for another 5 years. But it will eventually end. Some other trend is gonna take it's place and we stop talking about the once mighty titan that was spunk gargle wee-wee.