Poll: I've got a Bad Feeling about CoD: Ghosts...

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I voted I don't care, because I really don't. I haven't been interested in the series since CoD4, so the series falling off the earth would pretty much go by unnoticed by me.

As for the industry, Activision would lose a major cash cow and eventually some other franchise (not necessarily an Activision one] will replace it as the new big dog. Life will go on.

 

[Longstreet]

It'll still sell very good probably.

I won't be buying it since some retard thought it was a good idea to implement that lobby bullshit console players are stuck with on the pc.

Seriously, fuck that system.

 

[TomWiley]

Ghosts is certainly gonna sell well, but I think a lot of their core audience is looking at it and going "is this really call of duty?". Whenever the CoD-frenchise does something different, like they did with Blops 2, they are losing sells.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I will never understand consumers.People want a new CoD game and then complain that its similar to other games in the franchise, you know, almost like a sequel!
Mario is possibly one of the most loved games ever and in all its 'sequels' as far as I know it has added new maps (if you are lucky) and a few more powerups. Yet somehow people like to jump on the bandwagon and insult CoD for 'rehashing' the same old game. You know, conveniently leaving out the new plot, weapons, maps, game types, basically everything short or making it part of a separate franchise.

Because Nintendo are masters at taking a franchise and making it feel fresh. For all their similarities, I've never thought that I was playing the same game with a simple coat of new paint when I was played a Legend of Zelda. Whoever makes CoD isn't that masterful.

I never played much Zelda so I can't comment on that either way. But I certainly felt I was playing the same game over and over again with Mario.
If Nintendo is as you say I hope Mario is just a bad egg, I know it turned me off most Nintendo franchises considering a lot of people say its the best Nintendo has to offer.
Also with the exception of MW3, CoD never made me feel like I was playing a rehashed game. Similar sure, but the reason I buy CoD is to play a CoD game, not something completely different with a CoD sticker slapped on.

Well the reverse is true for me, I was never into Mario, so I can't comment on that, but I heard Nintendo does get some flak for it (not that they care, obviously). And I know what you mean about wanting to play a CoD game, it's just they never felt different enough to me to warrant a purchase of the newest game, but then again I was never into "realistic" shooters.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Even if it's past it's peak it may have decades of gradual decline and stagnation left with it still being one of the biggest titles in the industry. But that is probably if they take it off annual release schedule and try to do things to make it interesting.

 

[bjj hero]

Alright, so, trying to see how well the Call of Duty franchise sells, I looked it up on VGChartz, and saw This. [http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=Call+of+Duty] Looking at it, I noticed something disturbing: That CoD Modern Warfare III looks to be the peak of the CoD Franchise. CoD: MWIII sold about 27 Million games, but the game after it, CoD: BLOPS II sold 22 Million. That's a 5 Million drop in sales. That's a huge drop, and a very worrying one...

I bet theyve earned more than they did for the proceding titles as theyve introduced the online pass, pretty much doubling the price of the game if you opt in.

Personally MW3 is the last title I bought, I dislike the Treyarch entries and IW is now IW in name only. Ive started playing battlefield instead. And oddly Gotham Imposters has now grabbed me for a while for "twich" shooting.

 

[shadowuser10141]

If you're not interested in CoD they why on earth do you guys keep bringing it up?

I have a theory. It's because the jocks play it. You know, the jocks who gave you a swirly in high school.
You don't like the idea that they are involved in your hobby.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

The fact it's "a new generation" will probably appeal to all the cod fans it's worth buying.

And how can you not buy it? It has fish that move!

 

[SecondPrize]

It'll still sell very good probably.

I won't be buying it since some retard thought it was a good idea to implement that lobby bullshit console players are stuck with on the pc.

Seriously, fuck that system.

It's here to stay. I've seen a lot of complaints from console players about dedicated servers on BF3, I think. Seriously, complaining about dedicated servers.

 

[Poetic Nova]

The fact it's "a new generation" will probably appeal to all the cod fans it's worth buying.

And how can you not buy it? It has fish that move!

And dogs dude, freaking dogs! It's a must buy!

But seriously, CoD hasn't done something new for ages now, it was getting stale when MW2 was released. It's like watching a movie full of quick time events.

 

[Grach]

With E3 2013 being a thing of the past and all the shiny new toys coming down the pipe, it would thrill me to see something like Titanfall or Division take a place at the top and let CoD fandom shrink a bit. I love sci-fi and as much as a bummer as it was to see all the Halo clones, I do miss Halo being the top dog. At least there was a bunch of sci-fi being made, even if most of it was lame.

I would take issue with you on the possible enjoyment of the Halo series, but I agree. It would be nice that Titanfall would replace COD as the leading FPS franchise. At least it has goddamn mechs in it.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I highly doubt it'll fail, in the traditional sense anyway. The game's probably still going to sell 20+ million copies. But yeah, I do think we'll be seeing a downward trend. Modern Warfare 3 alienated a lot of players with its tiny, poorly-designed maps and hilariously imbalanced weaponry, and Black Ops 2 just frankly wasn't very good. I played Black Ops 2 during one of the free-to-play weekends on Steam, and yeah... it's the first Call of Duty game to date that I've had zero interest in spending money on.

Between the disappointing MW3 and the trainwreck BO2, yeah... I just don't see myself buying Ghosts on launch day. I think I'll wait for another free-to-play weekend or massive price cut to decide.

Edit:
Oh, and I voted that I don't care. I like CoD games, sure... but there are plenty of other games out there that I like more. So it's not going to really matter much to me one way or the other.

 

[xefaros]

CoD is the league of legends of consoles of course it will have lower sales when better games appear(BF3/Dota 2).But it will never stoop too low to become unprofiting for the developers.
The only hope is that it will provide something better on the next gen hardware to draw people back away from the rest of the games that they plague in the absence of a good CoD


CoD/LoL comparison:Same repeated gameplay,blaming others,talking incoherently,sense of accomplishment(pentakill/360 no-scope),level progression and above all unlocks

 

[Maximum Bert]

It will sell well but I think COD is on a downward spiral now, personally I know very few people who play it now whereas it seemed almost everyone did at one time.

I tried COD4 and MW2 and clocked up about 16 hours between them and that was me done I tried the single player and hated it but I have a friend who plays purely for the single player he never goes online with it even though he is pretty damn good.

COD and Assassins Creed have had their day but there is still life left in them atm its just that its getting to the time they need a new franchise to milk to death.

 

[floppylobster]

I think there may be something to be said about the fact the Black Ops are developed by a different company.

True, but CoD: BLOPS 1 sold close to 26 Million, so I don't think it's the fact that BLOPS II was made by a different company.

But the average consumer had no idea about who developed what and continues to buy Call of Duty on the name 'Call of Duty', not because of the developer (who have internally changed anyway). The average guy might have bought Black Ops not knowing it was not by the people who did Modern Warfare. They then backed off buying Black Ops 2 because they did not enjoy Black Ops 1 as much.

Not everyone is like this, but at least 5 million players of CoD could be.

This is likely why Activision support the new variants of the name of the game. Because they know with their milking of the franchise they're slowly tainting its name. But by releasing new variants on the formula they can keep the franchise going until Guitar Hero saturation sets in. i.e. any day now.

 

[ugxwolf]

I think CoD is becoming a niche. It won't lose all of its followers, and hell, we may see it become a system exclusive, when it reaches something like 10 million in sales at best. Well, that's what I would say, if a sensible company were developing it, but this is Activision. If sales go as low as 10 mil, they won't go single-plat, they're gonna kill the franchise. It's what they did the GH, it's what they did with Tony Hawk. I hate to see this happen again, but honestly? I've lost the capacity to care. I'm giving CoD Ghosts a chance on the Wii U, but if that doesn't cut it, they've lost my interest and any future sales.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Tastes and trends change. Before CoD, Halo was the big go-to shooter that EVERYONE wanted. Then Modern Warfare took it's crown. There's certainly room for change since CoD has been the defacto big shooter since 2007.

I don't think CoD is going to die anytime soon though. It does what it does extremely well. It's not really my kind of game and I know that sentiment is going to be echoed by most people on these message boards, but it makes a lot of people happy in a strange almost cultist kind of way.

With E3 2013 being a thing of the past and all the shiny new toys coming down the pipe, it would thrill me to see something like Titanfall or Division take a place at the top and let CoD fandom shrink a bit. I love sci-fi and as much as a bummer as it was to see all the Halo clones, I do miss Halo being the top dog. At least there was a bunch of sci-fi being made, even if most of it was lame.

Nailing it on the head as always, ZZoMBiE. And I, too, miss the time when Halo was top dog. It was awesome to get a bunch of pals together for random spontaneous custom games. Always having someone who wanted to do a little Kart racing, or equipment wars. Now it's a wasteland. You have to plan to have a custom game, leaving out all of the spontaneity that the previous games had. I hope something like TitanFall, Division, or Destiny takes up the crown of the shooter market's top dog. We need something sci-fi to take over, because one gets bored when they're just seeing sand, strykers, humvees, and other familiar present-day tech.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Is it possible that CoD: Ghosts will loose another 5 Million in sales? Has CoD begun it's descent downward? What would that mean for the industry?

Only good things, it was the down turn of WW2 shooters that gave us Call of Duty 4, Activision were very resistant to a shooter that was set in the modern era, the relative failure of CoD 3 and whatever the 2 Medal of Honors around that time were called (I forget) persuaded them to allow something different.

Maybe a truly sci-fi CoD? Back to World War 2? Korea? Or the end of not-quite-Infinity Ward, as the combined weight of Planetside 2, BF4, Destiny and Titanfall crush Call of Duty out of the console player's collective mind? Who knows.

I honestly think Planetsde 2 is going to blow a lot of gamer's minds when they get a hold of it free come launch day. There's been nothing of such a massive scale in console games history, MAG was vaguely close but other than that 24 players has been the limit. Suddenly finding that the map is actually three gigantic continents and that the team size is everybody is going to be a shock. Plus it's completely free, not even needing PS+.

If Sony have any sense they'll send out PS4s with the game pre-installed on the hard drive so it only needs a small update to become usable. There's a huge opportunity there for the taking.

 

[Tom_green_day]

OP: I think the reason Black Ops 2 sold less is because it has not been out as long. CoD games sell well on release, but also continue to sell well, apparently sales are still within the top #10. I think overall CoD:Blops 2 will do pretty well.

 

[Jesse Billingsley]

I'm just hoping it has a good story (I know that is a lot to ask for from Infinity Ward). I wouldn't mind picking Ghosts up for that.