400k to play a game? I work a blue collar job busting my butt barely getting by and then there’s literal kids making 40x what I make. Low key pisses me off
it's the top .000001% of people in the industry getting that, you'd have better odds buying a lottery ticket everyday. Nobody really get's mad at a lottery winner but I understand the frustration, just go easy on yourself bro, honest living man
Remember, everyone was so excited and happy that Microsoft bought Activision, and they are going to "Change Call of Durty forever?" Well, look at the current state now??
30 million copies sold = $2.1 billion at $70 a game sold, without the micro transactions. Even with the higher cost and less sales they never needed the microtransactions to recoup anything.
@@BRASHAWMartinez don't know how you got that from what I wrote. It's some math to put things in perspective. I hear reading at a slower pace helps with understanding more...
@Ghost-gf4yd Yeah, and then those same devs from 10 years ago went on to make games that straight up failed (e.g., XDefiant). Sometimes even OG devs can make games that just end up either not being good or financially prosperous.
@@themajesticspider-man6116 Yeah, XDefiant was really fun and actually genuinely replaced CoD as my main FPS game but those days are sadly over and I shall be returning to the dank CS2 basement on Office
@SentientDab he is being paid based on value. Also, that kid didn't hurt or exploited anyone as long as he disclosed he is sponsored. There is nothing crimal here
haven’t played due to running into a hacker in a pub lobby, then i get an email saying my account was banned recently due to cheating lmao game is such a joke
remember when cod was a fun arcade shooter where everybody had fun using any weapon they want and enjoying the maps they were given 😔 its just not the same anymore and it will never be again
Only fix to redeem Call of Duty is to do what did with the MCC. COD should just make a “COD: Soap Collection” type of thing where they remaster COD:4-MW3 all redone campaign. Sectioned multiplayer. Would be awesome
i feel like we're not getting old cod on gamepass because they know how unhappy the community is with bo6 rn and it'll take the already dwindling player base away from the new game
AAA gaming as a whole is on its death bed. Thats why I encourage everyone to CONTINUE TO SUPPORT INDIE DEVS. Some of the greatest video games in recent years were made my smaller independent studios. And while they may not have the budgeting of a AAA studio they def have the heart and soul a lot of those same AAA studios now lack.
These numbers must include marketing budgets. RDR2 was like 240 million dollars of development and then marketing on top of that. There is absolutely no chance only development was 700 million dollars to make this slop lol. And if it did cost that much to develop, there’s some serious mismanagement with the allocation of funds during development.
I 100% agree with the “call of fortnite” I thought bo6 was the best cod in recent member until about a month ago and I haven’t had any urge to play it when all I see is this wacky stuff and ik it’s only going to get worse
Yeah cause it's a better game, i have far more fun with fortnite then this dumpster pile. This is by far the most garbage corporate greed I've seen and rigged matches for the worse skill brackets to have fun
No they literally are the same game year after year. Proof being what neroscinema showed in one of his video where characters from mw3 or mw2 showed up in bo6.
As someone who used Fortnite as their cod replacement, i genuinely have a better time on there than my time with MWII, Cold War and MW3 (I did like bo6 when the beta was out but im not sure if itll keep me entertained like in the beta)
Yeah other cods were probably the worst when it came to gameplay but being in 2025 BO6 is probably the worst game in cod history when it comes to everything from gameplay to sales. Still glad I did not get it, just having fun watching it fall apart from the sideline lol
Love the video and 1: I absolutely agree with the theory that people dont want to play COD because its just slowly turning into Fortnite and not a COD game. We want originality. 2: With the Vermin double hit.. THEY ANNOUNCED THEY FIXED THAT LIKE A MONTH OR TWO AGO! SO WHYS IT STILL HAPPENING? THEN FOR THEM TO DELAY IT TILL NEXT SEASON!!! But yes fix the unicorn bundle finisher screen in the shop. And just a question. Is that bugged animation actually in the game? If not. Why and or how is it showing as the finisher if its not even a move in the game?!
Yeah but they reported that sold sold over 500 million copies and let's split the differences in price and say $80 a game that's $40 billion how are they cooked and that not accounting for in game purchases
I just heard the entire Animation division hitting the ground after jumping from the Mappa Headquarters building… 400K to play a video game!?! And he says “ArE tHeY BrOkE” as if 10k an hour it isn’t enough!?!
Rumors of Fortnites death were greatly exaggerated. Dude there are so many fun and addicting community modes at this point it's celebrating all kinds of different games.
I wish we lived in a world where they can just understand that no cod past bo2 has ever done better for both them and for players so we can just have bo2 back in todays era of tech and imagination. 😔
Here is funny part - CoD despite trying to became a lifeservice is STILL viewed by most casuals as "a game I can buy every year, play for like 3 months and forget until next will show". They grabbed some attention with Warzone ONLY to buried it completely by botching integrations with cold War and Vanguard, then failing with WZ 2.0. So even tho CoD has still place in gamers mind, at the same time every installment by themself does not have opinion of worthy long-term game, unlike Fortnite, Overwatch, CS or League.
12:32 they want you to buy shop bundles unless they made an update for old cods and our shop bundles in there where are never getting them on games pass
Only picked the game up the other week. Came back to your channel for the first time since bo3, saw your gameplay and review and thought why not give it a try. Mp is decent but sick of the stupid comestics, wish you could turn it off. Not a fan of the zombies one bit. Campaign was fire but too short. See myself dropping it quickly though, sick of the sbmm, the goofy looney tunes kill animations, the cheaters since I play on pc too. Plus you got all the bugs, reused assets and AI stuff. Only playing because of gamepass. Back to plutonium soon I imagine
Buying skins in any cod game has become very expensive and they kind of have a timer on them unlike fortnite which is just one game getting updated but cod is like this subscription that if you dont pay up for the years update youre stuck with the last one that almost instantly becomes a weird graveyard esp if the new one is a good game
More than half of Epic Games' current staff and hiring positions are Fortnite-related. Epic are no longer the "Unreal Engine people". They're the "Fortnite people".
its not the fact that its literally the exact same, but its the lack of creativity compared to their performance in the past, and overall innovation from game to game like they used to.
but imo id rather have less innovation from game to game, than be stuck in a half life situation where they refuse to drop a new game do to lack of innovated software/hardware to incentivize them into it.
I’d argue ever since MW2019 that most of the games have felt or looked pretty similar. Treyarch to Infinity Ward to Sledgehammer games before this I felt had distinct identities, and while I still like and appreciate what MW2019 did for the series, it kind of kicked off that samey feel
Merk did you know that Fortnite sells item's separately and if you buy a bundle it's cheaper than buying everything in a set separately. Activision is so greedy they can't even copy the monetization correctly
Honestly, I have no words for the downfall of COD. I haven’t paid a dime towards BO6. I just downloaded it for free on the game pass and just play. I get tempted to, but don’t buy bundles
Even if they have all 3 (4 if include raven) studio work together. Every 3 years. Costs them 2billion to make. Remove the EOMM, better servers. Sell more copies cause.. cause it’s actually good, Make more of micro-transactions, as good game and more players. 2-3B each quarter. Like come on if they just did this. Like it’s not rocket-science. But for them it might be
*DROP A LIKE + SUB* to get paid $10,000 AN HOUR TO PLAY COD!!!
What do YOU think about the latest COD news? Is Call of Duty COOKED?
its beyond cooked its burnt
bro hearted his own comment
yeah Fortnite Gamers make it big
Ricochet is the Ai it’s not an anti cheat. Obs studio at the moment
57 percent down on steam that is hilarious 😂deserved
400k to play a game? I work a blue collar job busting my butt barely getting by and then there’s literal kids making 40x what I make. Low key pisses me off
Yes I know especially pissed me when the kid in the Fortnite vid say “what they’re broke so like 10k in an hour?”…..
Why people watch them
it's the top .000001% of people in the industry getting that, you'd have better odds buying a lottery ticket everyday. Nobody really get's mad at a lottery winner but I understand the frustration, just go easy on yourself bro, honest living man
remember you deserve to be paid more for the work you do
I work 50 hours a week back breaking labor for $1800 bruh it’s so fked up man
Complaining about only getting 20k an hour when most people work 6 straight months to earn that. These people are genuinely evil.
they didn't even complain cuh
@@SillyCrillybruh said call of duty broke since they paid him 10k an hour not 20k an hour cuh
Seriously. What even is this world we're living in?
@@SillyCrilly you're just asking to be insulted.
@@g0g0duck20 fr fr
No wonder vonderhaar left 😢
finderhaar
@@ordaschmordafinderhair
Still miss Vondy
not finderharr 😢
🗣️ CALL OF DUTY
Lets be honest. Half of the budget is going into bundles rather than improving the game 😭
Crazy.. to me the minimum wage is 7.25 an hour yet these children get paid my annual salary with one sponsor legit criminal...
I miss how gaming used to be 10-15 years ago😢
Me too, kid...
I miss the ps2,xbox,GC era and ps3,xbox360,wii era that was peak to me
it's gotten way outta hand, no buts about it.
@@sinocboycan’t forget the psp it was the golden era truly
There are other good games out there tho.
Remember, everyone was so excited and happy that Microsoft bought Activision, and they are going to "Change Call of Durty forever?" Well, look at the current state now??
Microsoft have a 69 billion dollar hole to fill one way or another
Tbh, the new era of COD started with MW2019 but it's definitely continuing to get wackier lol
I think the changes will start from 2027 or 2028
@@xeon39688yeah, when nobody is playing their game is when we will see changes
yep, i remember this cope
the same people are silent now lmao
30 million copies sold = $2.1 billion at $70 a game sold, without the micro transactions. Even with the higher cost and less sales they never needed the microtransactions to recoup anything.
You can't tell a business how they should operate
there's nothing to recoup, it was always profit.
They should drop the price so more people get it or make it free to play. Hey Microsoft, Fortnite is free! Go copy that.
@swagboi420 get gamepass smartboi!!!
@@BRASHAWMartinez don't know how you got that from what I wrote. It's some math to put things in perspective. I hear reading at a slower pace helps with understanding more...
How much they pay u merk
Probably a lot if he buys things and says stuff
6:30 watch the video before asking bro
@@thehippo2211 bro didnt see the video
@@ceufrscio707 1 dollar every video
@@michaelquan5966 stuff and things
Why the hell cant there be smaller titles? Is it really necessary to always have a yearly release
COD mobile lol
CoD lost its soul and its charm after warzone became big, they became lazy
It’s not that they became lazy, all the talent just left. The people currently working on cod are not the same devs as 10 years ago.
@Ghost-gf4yd Yeah, and then those same devs from 10 years ago went on to make games that straight up failed (e.g., XDefiant). Sometimes even OG devs can make games that just end up either not being good or financially prosperous.
@@themajesticspider-man6116 Yeah, XDefiant was really fun and actually genuinely replaced CoD as my main FPS game but
those days are sadly over and I shall be returning to the dank CS2 basement on Office
Crazy to me the minimum wage is 7.25 an hour yet these children get paid my annual salary with one sponsor legit criminal
Life is so unfair !
@SentientDab he is being paid based on value. Also, that kid didn't hurt or exploited anyone as long as he disclosed he is sponsored. There is nothing crimal here
To play video games too! If only they paid their employees instead of paying streamers we’d have a much better game
haven’t played due to running into a hacker in a pub lobby, then i get an email saying my account was banned recently due to cheating lmao game is such a joke
Not me ill be playing when i get home
@@BRASHAWMartinez you're still in stage 1.
remember when cod was a fun arcade shooter where everybody had fun using any weapon they want and enjoying the maps they were given 😔 its just not the same anymore and it will never be again
“There very different games year by year” bro actvision has a gun behind his head 😭
Only fix to redeem Call of Duty is to do what did with the MCC. COD should just make a “COD: Soap Collection” type of thing where they remaster COD:4-MW3 all redone campaign. Sectioned multiplayer. Would be awesome
@dantizzle5245 nah I think they should do a waw through bo2 remaster
@@mlgamer-ie2tw i was thinking they could do that as well. Personally I said MW is because those were my favorites over the BO games
This video was very well made and informative, but also goofy as hell and funny. Nice video merk
i feel like we're not getting old cod on gamepass because they know how unhappy the community is with bo6 rn and it'll take the already dwindling player base away from the new game
I don’t think I’d ever buy a new cod if they released BO1 and BO2 on next gen consoles. So it’ll probably never happen.
AAA gaming as a whole is on its death bed.
Thats why I encourage everyone to CONTINUE TO SUPPORT INDIE DEVS. Some of the greatest video games in recent years were made my smaller independent studios. And while they may not have the budgeting of a AAA studio they def have the heart and soul a lot of those same AAA studios now lack.
I agree. I've played quite a bit of good indie games. It actually brings me back to a time before triple A actually started turning junk.
Wow I haven’t watch a MerkMusic video in years and the outro took me back to those meme full days lmao I’m hooked
I love buying ai generated images in my 70 dollar product
There’s NO WAY they took 4 years to develop this pile of shit.
the game is fine lol
@@superiorduck9416it’s really not that good
@@superiorduck9416 what? you must be the targeted demographic lol
@@superiorduck9416 clearly not if people are quitting
No hope for cod
These numbers must include marketing budgets. RDR2 was like 240 million dollars of development and then marketing on top of that. There is absolutely no chance only development was 700 million dollars to make this slop lol. And if it did cost that much to develop, there’s some serious mismanagement with the allocation of funds during development.
100%
And paid them with all the money they saved using AI to shit out "art" instead of paying artists and animators
I 100% agree with the “call of fortnite” I thought bo6 was the best cod in recent member until about a month ago and I haven’t had any urge to play it when all I see is this wacky stuff and ik it’s only going to get worse
If fortnight season 2 never happened I genuinely think cod wouldn’t of gone downhill like this
Yeah cause it's a better game, i have far more fun with fortnite then this dumpster pile. This is by far the most garbage corporate greed I've seen and rigged matches for the worse skill brackets to have fun
No they literally are the same game year after year. Proof being what neroscinema showed in one of his video where characters from mw3 or mw2 showed up in bo6.
As someone who used Fortnite as their cod replacement, i genuinely have a better time on there than my time with MWII, Cold War and MW3
(I did like bo6 when the beta was out but im not sure if itll keep me entertained like in the beta)
6:03" are they broke? "
These kids man😂
10:14 Casually Going 70-5
After seeing this years steam award winners, I am not surprised people keep buying COD every year
I haven’t bought a cod game since bo3, I just decided to try bo6 out lol. But i probably won’t be buying another one
I love how merk is just now changing sides
Yo love the videos keep up the good work
Yeah other cods were probably the worst when it came to gameplay but being in 2025 BO6 is probably the worst game in cod history when it comes to everything from gameplay to sales. Still glad I did not get it, just having fun watching it fall apart from the sideline lol
BO6 is garbage for sure but MWIII was worse in my opinion
We don’t even talk about Vanguard
Love the video and
1: I absolutely agree with the theory that people dont want to play COD because its just slowly turning into Fortnite and not a COD game. We want originality.
2: With the Vermin double hit.. THEY ANNOUNCED THEY FIXED THAT LIKE A MONTH OR TWO AGO! SO WHYS IT STILL HAPPENING? THEN FOR THEM TO DELAY IT TILL NEXT SEASON!!! But yes fix the unicorn bundle finisher screen in the shop. And just a question. Is that bugged animation actually in the game? If not. Why and or how is it showing as the finisher if its not even a move in the game?!
Even when they sell 30 mill copies they still make almost 2 billion dollars
Yeah but they reported that sold sold over 500 million copies and let's split the differences in price and say $80 a game that's $40 billion how are they cooked and that not accounting for in game purchases
Bro the thumbnail I can't 😂
I just heard the entire Animation division hitting the ground after jumping from the Mappa Headquarters building… 400K to play a video game!?! And he says “ArE tHeY BrOkE” as if 10k an hour it isn’t enough!?!
They make Billions off of each game. 700 million is nothing when you making triple that back.
Rumors of Fortnites death were greatly exaggerated. Dude there are so many fun and addicting community modes at this point it's celebrating all kinds of different games.
Those sales numbers from the lawsuit are US sales only btw.
Did you also hear about The Replacer voice audio being copy and pasted to the Front Man’s in Zombies?
"A lot of these games are different year over year" stfu. 😂
I wish we lived in a world where they can just understand that no cod past bo2 has ever done better for both them and for players so we can just have bo2 back in todays era of tech and imagination. 😔
They pay TH-camrs not to play the game, but not talk bad about the game.
Well if the stream is sponsored you can't say bad things about the game every game / dev does it
@Taco117. Like for a long time. I would think until the end of the game's life cycle so it would not affect game, and microtransactions sales
I mean its losing 2% of the playerbase everyday and its deserved
Buddy’s says games aren’t different almost 90 percent is the same . Even the zombies boss battle is from Cold War….. everything’s a reskin
the casual players are just gonna keep buying the same old call of duty forever and its just gonna be an endless cycle like how it is now..
Here is funny part - CoD despite trying to became a lifeservice is STILL viewed by most casuals as "a game I can buy every year, play for like 3 months and forget until next will show". They grabbed some attention with Warzone ONLY to buried it completely by botching integrations with cold War and Vanguard, then failing with WZ 2.0. So even tho CoD has still place in gamers mind, at the same time every installment by themself does not have opinion of worthy long-term game, unlike Fortnite, Overwatch, CS or League.
2:28 this game was not worth 700 million.....
U got proof to back up ur claim?
Gave is way more than what we asked for just servers and maps are bad
yeah the vermin patch I saw it, on my first game I looked at my armor, I lost 2/3 of my first plate on one hit. vermin aren't patch at all
the real problem is how long that chopper gunner lasted
If any creators should be getting paid to play bit should be the jevs and the merkmusics of the world .
The zombies is the o oh thing saving this game for me
If Activision wants me to play CoD then they need to fix the servers in older games.
B-B-But how can they sell you 30 dollar anime bundles and tracer packs then?
12:32 they want you to buy shop bundles unless they made an update for old cods and our shop bundles in there where are never getting them on games pass
That beginning gameplay is really sus
Only picked the game up the other week. Came back to your channel for the first time since bo3, saw your gameplay and review and thought why not give it a try.
Mp is decent but sick of the stupid comestics, wish you could turn it off.
Not a fan of the zombies one bit.
Campaign was fire but too short.
See myself dropping it quickly though, sick of the sbmm, the goofy looney tunes kill animations, the cheaters since I play on pc too.
Plus you got all the bugs, reused assets and AI stuff. Only playing because of gamepass.
Back to plutonium soon I imagine
@@AFlexibleGamer plutonium is cooked lol, there’s too many hackers on there now
Love you merk ❤
Meek should be the most paid call of duty streamer tbh
Merc
You are the goat
I love your vids
Unfortunately i have intel iris xe graphics only
I miss when COD wasn't a fuckin cartoon.
the shadowbanning is what made me stop playing cod
Just keep in mind that Warzone and CoD being on Game Pass will affect sales
1:19 One thing to note here: Genshin Impact is a game you can play right now. star Citizen is not.
@Ashurman666 you mean campain mode.. online is available for star citizen right now. Just watched live streams recently. (It's not for me)
Buying skins in any cod game has become very expensive and they kind of have a timer on them unlike fortnite which is just one game getting updated but cod is like this subscription that if you dont pay up for the years update youre stuck with the last one that almost instantly becomes a weird graveyard esp if the new one is a good game
When I said Cod should be paying us to play, I didn't mean Gen Alpha streamers
Fortnite in the beginning had 100 to 200 million $ for development costs so around 2017 2018 they actually released it 😭
save the world yea, but the Fortnite BR mode was just a test and was never meant to be taken seriously, until it blew up.
More than half of Epic Games' current staff and hiring positions are Fortnite-related.
Epic are no longer the "Unreal Engine people". They're the "Fortnite people".
This thumbnail😂😂❤❤
Black ops 6 is beyond trash
its not the fact that its literally the exact same, but its the lack of creativity compared to their performance in the past, and overall innovation from game to game like they used to.
but imo id rather have less innovation from game to game, than be stuck in a half life situation where they refuse to drop a new game do to lack of innovated software/hardware to incentivize them into it.
95/10kd is crazy 💀
where is the link to this article?
What do you think about the AI art cod uses?
I’d argue ever since MW2019 that most of the games have felt or looked pretty similar. Treyarch to Infinity Ward to Sledgehammer games before this I felt had distinct identities, and while I still like and appreciate what MW2019 did for the series, it kind of kicked off that samey feel
But WZ is definitely reasonable to have those bundles... but not make sense for the MP😂
The CEO’s of Activision, Treyarch, Sledgehammer, and Infinity Ward all deserve the same treatment the healthcare ceo got over a month ago
My god that thumbnail!
Merk did you know that Fortnite sells item's separately and if you buy a bundle it's cheaper than buying everything in a set separately. Activision is so greedy they can't even copy the monetization correctly
Yo Revival day part 2? I'd be down
Eric...what was that gameplay?
Its actually illegal to not tell your audience if a stream / video is sponsored
Current CoD is so bad, it cured my CoD addiction 😭
putting cod on gamepass is just the dumbest decision to do
Nah bro don't under sell it we've had the same game for 5 years over and over 😂
When are you streaming again?!!!!!!
Considering it’s free to play on Xbox game pass I would expect it not not sell as many copies.
i bought it cause im on ps5 💔
If Activision wants the community back… drop SBMM and keep voice chat open. Until than I’m never playing again.
i dont know a single soul that has purchased a COD in years.. if it werent on the gamepass. there would be nobody playing it
Cod working on upstanding UBiSoft😂😂😂😂
oh boy i love the patch notes always being wrong for zombies.
Imagine Vonderharr Coming back
Cost to develop is a deceptive number isn't it? Like how much of that is marketing/advertising?
Honestly, I have no words for the downfall of COD. I haven’t paid a dime towards BO6. I just downloaded it for free on the game pass and just play. I get tempted to, but don’t buy bundles
Even if they have all 3 (4 if include raven) studio work together. Every 3 years.
Costs them 2billion to make.
Remove the EOMM, better servers.
Sell more copies cause.. cause it’s actually good, Make more of micro-transactions, as good game and more players. 2-3B each quarter.
Like come on if they just did this. Like it’s not rocket-science. But for them it might be
We need vonderhar back but makes sense on why he dropped out
I can tell you that fork knife doesn't have sbmm like cod does
7:30 so basically become a huge streamer and say hey I will only play cod if actvsion pays me got it
90% of the budget is marketing