Join the Kingerd Crew by becoming a channel member!: th-cam.com/channels/GjZlxsCYIkbpg4m3P3nhGg.htmljoin Keep denying the slope is slippery, don't be shocked when we've reached rock bottom Thank you for watching! What do YOU think is a realistic balance for CoD players and the shareholders to both be happy? Or, let's predict what great feature will be removed in the next one because it's too much work for a 74 billion dollar company! (PS I know several studios work on CoD Games. Mother Goose is responsible for her gander so I say "Activision Blizzard" throughout, because pretending the studio-of-the-week that's working on the newest game has more power over the IP than Activision Blizzard is wild)
The best cod zombies for the consumer easily BO3 on steam. The workshop allows you to have basically an endless wave of new content made by the community, keeping the game alive, and on sale. The one that's best for the consumer and shareholders is a cod that respect players, and doesn't take away so much, for the same price, and has a good story. Bo1 feels like the best balance, as it did have map packs, and the zombies expansion, but it also had a great story, with an overall simple premise on the surface. Most people I've talked to speak highty of this golden era of cod. Cod4, b01, mw2, bo2. The games could sell really well, and they were huge in their media presence. We'll never see this side of cod, ever again.
ty for the video, it was honest and showed the problems of modern gaming but i don't have any sympathy for the COD,Battlefield,sports games and Destiny players they are mainly the reasons what we are getting today from the gaming companies, half assed,unfinished,buggy, lootbox filled trash games. all of those games can be dead and i wouldn't care tbh, i didn't buy a single cod,battlefield,fifa since decades ago and i stopped buying Destiny 2 expansions after the first one because wtf they turned the game into the Eververse simulator... btw there is no realistic balance for players and these companies, their greed is sooooo high you can give them this entire planet and they will still ask for universe. this shit will never end unless gamers grows a pair of braincells and stop buying these kind of games.
@@NURDVEVO For Console, BO1-BO3 are great games all respectively for their zombies maps, for Multiplayer, it's BO1 and BO2, for zombies, it's interchangeable, and Campaign, again, most people just stick to BO1-BO2. On PC, however, BO3 is easily some of the best zombies, simply because of the workshop. If people wanted to, we could've already had a fully-fleshed out and functional Zombie Chronicles 2 (Tranzit, MoTD, Buried). I've heard works of Tranzit being remade, entirely, but nothing much for Buried, MoTD, Die Rise
I do love how gamers are gaslit and insulted by other games for having "too high expectations" for literally wanting the quality of gaming we had nearly 20 year's ago XD
I stopped buying COD since BO2. I still think it's funny how people want COD to change for the better but still buy the yearly releases, Activision, Treyarch, Sledgehammer games and infinity ward are laughing their way to the bank. The little piggies complain but still eat up the slop.. People that still buy COD get what they deserve.
@@patchesgaming9139 pirate it if you'd like, i just don't think 60 is that much to get really pissed about. money's just the thing you use for shit you want. money isn't an issue for me, but i can understand if it is for you. i just like the games a ton, battlefield's gotten pretty bad but i like the multiplayer call of duty games a lot
It's really funny, and a bit scary, that your timeline of the downfall of Call of Duty exactly follows my personal timeline of completely giving up on the series entirely. The removal of campaign, and the subsequent forced online crap just to shove a bunch of ads into the menu tanked any possibility of me ever buying a COD game ever again, unless they massively overhaul and change everything, which we know they won't.
You just made me realize how this game caters to the most common denominator out there. Is it any surprise that those who play dozens of hours of COD don't play other games besides shooters and more COD?
@@jerseylife8701 a good campaign can be well worth the price though. And campaigns used to be, and still are to a lot of people, a huge reason why they even are interested in the next cod that gets spewed out; if anything regardless of number of playthroughs the declining campaign quality still illustrates the decreased effort being put into these games over time to anything that isn’t a new skin
I feel like gaming will become full circle and eventually we will go all the way back to pay per play like at the old arcade stores. You want to play a round in multiplayer? No worries, just 1 dollar for 3 lives. You're new to the game? Have a bonus 10 lives. Getting kills will get you more lives which incentivises you to play more. Run out of lives before the games over? No worries for just 50cents, you can get get another 3 lives to help your team win.
"When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time." - John Riccitiello Former CEO of Electronic Arts
I know a lot of these “playing it anyway” types are sad dudes. Shit life with a shit job that pays no money. Comes home and gets bitched at by a woman that doesn’t love him but won’t leave. He can’t make her leave cause they’re financially dependent on eachother. Like for some dudes it’s all they have. I know a couple guys like that. It’s sad
Let's not forget the people who claim that no one ever played Call of Duty for the campaign, completely ignoring the fact that the franchise thrived on its memorable campaigns, providing multiplayer as an added bonus.
Yeah. The campaign is what made the first 2 games especially popular, it was WW2 story in a time when the only other WW2 FPS games were Battlefield 1942 and Medal of Honour. And then the Multiplayer took everything great about campaign and let you fight your friends or strangers.
@@EmuQuestyeah I mean a ton of triple A games especially are terrible now but we arguably are in the best period for gaming ever currently, we have so many options
I mean, probably the darkest age for the franchises we all grew up with and love, but actually for other games, other studios and even indie games it is just the beginning, just wake up from the CoD dream and dare to explore new horizons, yes, we used to love this games and at some point the memories we made there were our everything, but now, all we can do is to remember those golden years and move on, new memories and experiences await for us to discover them, they're just somewhere else.
Couldn't agree more. When the last 5 games are having to almost exclusively pander/market off nostalgia for old games and their plotpoints/ideas just to sell, you can truly see just how dead this franchise is in terms of creativity and iteration.
Nah bruh. When I think about answering the Call of Duty I think of playing as Nicki Minaj and weird realistic cat headed soldiers. Totally. Yeah... But for real, my last CoD was the first Black Ops. I'm just here for the lols now.
I don't know how many macro transactions are being sold compared to the cost of the game to produce but mwiii did terribly. They used some bullshit player metric to make it look like it was doing well. I know one person that owns it. Compared to the 30+ I played 2019 with.
Finally, a medical expert we can trust. Also, oh man. I forgot a time when skins cost 0 to 1$ to loot box to 20-25$..... Where did we go so wrong. Also i am old enough to remember that we bought COD for the excellent campaign and the multiplayer was a true casual fun.
They want us to believe single player is dead so we only want to focus on multiplayer, because they can milk the multiplayer. But, the truth is, COD needs a great single player with great multiplayer and a third mode like zombies or BR in order to have value.
I lust for a good CoD campaign. Agreed, they’d love nothing more than for the masses to buy into “who needs a campaign”, it’d be one less thing for them to have to do to justify a fully priced game
I like your channel. Even if this video doesn't change anything, it's nice that someone's keeping score so well with the gaming industry's shenanigans and the poor arguments people use to defend those practices.
Thank you! I think they’re just hoping their player base is too young to remember what gaming was like only a decade ago and the people that played in the late 2000s-early 2010s will just go away (you know, the players that are the reason they blew up when they did)
@TheKingerd I think so too. There's enough fresh gamers coming in to the market every year to perpetuate this cycle. They get in on the hype and/or pulled in by friends, and by the time they realize what their money is actually getting them it's already in the hands of the company. Any backlash from burnt customers is then replaced by next year's graduating class, and we repeat. It's a playbook that's worked for over a decade with no real end in sight. Especially now with how normalized battle passes are now.
The older games were fun. The first Modern Warfare campaign was something to behold at the time due to how new and exciting it was for video games. It's basically been the exact same thing ever since then with a lot of weird superfluous content.
The last CoD I bought was the original modern warfare 2 that came out a decade ago, and I am happy with my stopping point. I grew up with CoD, they used to be so good. It's a shame that people keep vomiting money at this greedy company. What a waste of IP and dev talent.
I’d argue that the last slice has already been taken away and that you truly get NOTHING buying these new cods. Fun and fair gameplay are not a guarantee, you experience is thoroughly manipulated and tailored to keep you raging and guide you to their microtransaction mall. I can’t wait to see the next episode of the COD shitshow unfold, cause if this isn’t rock bottom, then holy shit what kind of dirty stunt can they pull off next?
SBMM and pay to win trash are already nibbling at that last slice to be sure. Shame so many can complain about it but still throw money at it regardless And microtransaction mall, that’s a good one imma keep that in my back pocket
Ive witnessed the downfall of gaming myself, from a golden age to a dark ages run by big corporations and greed. To me gaming has been dead for years, all the focus is on creating online games where you just keep paying in one way or another. I only play single player offline games that are complete on release, I rarely do any update and whats the point of dlc. I have no reason to start playing a game again months after Ive finished it. I just dont understand modern gaming. When i got the Ps5 it wanted to me to download like 100 gb of updates for a game, so i just never played it. Now days i just stick with playing ps2 games, n64, gamecube. thats it, the golden age games
Plenty of amazing games on the scene now. Not saying that gaming is good now, but there are amazing games that come out every single year. You just need to be smart and not buy trash. I finished metro exodus the other day and it's one of the best games I have ever played. I am just saying that you don't need to go back to ps2
@@BleedForTheWorld no it wast,your success depends on whether or not he consumer would your product and services and you see this in lower sales and lower player count
This is why I like Nintendo games (besides the recent Mario Sports/Switch Sports entries). I'm getting a full game that I can play offline! And NO microtransactions! Woo! Thank God! (A lot of indies, too!)
Honestly I feel like the quote “The only winning move is not to play” can be applied to many AAA game company nowadays. The only slight chance we going to see our favorite game series became good again is to simply stop defending them.
I tapped out when I borrowed Battlefield 3 (I think) from a friend. Stuck it in the Xbox and it told me that the disc wasn't registered to the Xbox and I had to purchase it to play. That's the exact moment I quit playing new games. Have been replaying old titles ever since.
The Call of Duty franchise has lost me, and an army of customers. We just want good solid Single Player Campaigns. Multiplayer is crap, especially when you don't live in a large city where the signal is weak. And now even when you buy the console disc, you have to go online for a gigantuan data download just to play the Single player campaign . It's a bad joke now. I've practically given up on looking for new games now. It's a desert for decent first person games with a decent Single Player Campaign nowadays.
I have only owned 2 COD games in my whole life, BO2 and Advanced Warfare. And I've never spent a single cent on any micro transactions or loot-boxes (Mainly because I'm poor lmao). You have no idea how happy it makes me to see those sales charts and know that i have contributed nothing towards the greed and gluttony that Activision has been showing in recent years.
It's crazy how they just fall for it throwing money at activision while they serve them shit. But i mean ea has been doing the same shit with madden for years those brainwashed fans spend thousands every year on a roster update.
I played CoD 1-3 (2003-2006) back when it was set in WW2 ,the game was story oriented and was very engaging. I didn't play CoD 4:Modern Warfare because my PC at that time was too outdated and couldn't handle the game. I tried getting back into CoD during Blops2 but weirdly I find that I have motion sickness from playing the game. Ever since then I stopped playing any CoD games because I'm scared it'll give me motion sickness.
It's probably due to the low fov you're playing at. I had motion sickness and severe headaches going into Borderlands which I really wanted to play but couldn't. I noticed I wasn't getting ill while playing Left 4 Dead and that's when I found out about fov and my deal with motion sickness.
I left after the first modem warfare 2 it was a good solid game. Only played black ops 2 zombies and 1v1 matchs at buddy's havnt really touched em since
I used to get a feeling of anger whenever I'd talk to someone 10 years ago and they'd say "I only buy Cod for the multiplayer." And completely ignore the campaign. Now look, they prioritize the multiplayer and completely ignore other aspects of the game. Hope yall enjoy them micro transactions tho.
I remember when Black Ops 4 came out they PROMISED, SWORE TO GOD, that there are going to be no lootboxes, because of the backlash they gained since recent previous entries had certain weapons locked behind a lootbox gacha system. They did the scummiest move ever - they released the game without any lootboxes, waited for the reviews to kick in, got their praise and good reviews, THEN ADDED THE LOOTBOX SYSTEM. And now we're at the point where they're selling unfinished games for $70, not localizing the prices to poor countries and abandoning all of their titles a year after release, when they put out a new game. You honestly have to be the definition of naive to buy COD games.
Call of duty world at war and black ops 1 had multiple zombies maps In black ops 2 you only had one map with the base game, if you bought the separate zombies mode for pc, and for just all the maps it cost more than the base game which is campaign+zombies+multiplayer. So to just play more than one map your paying over 70$
The last cod I truly liked in recent memory was mw2019 which I assume most would agree but I can’t buy cods yearly they’re just all the same copy paste crap every year hate the operator skin stuff warzone is… warzone. I like many others miss the old days it felt like they really tried and cared back then and I hope Microsoft owning activision now can possibly give the series a real return in a positive way
Mw2019 is entirely inferior to the original Modern Warfare, and while most would agree with you, it's hot garbage, but not as hot garbage as Vanguard or WW2. The latest MW2 is also hot garbage, even more so compared to the original MW2. I might add that the recent advertisement for MW3 attempted to use eminem just like the original MW2's advertisement did.
For me, COD ended on the original Modern Warefare 3. I tried the warzone and i felt overwhelmed on the menu with in game ads and in game currencies. Finding my way out of that menu was COD in itself to get out of it and start the actual game
I actually gave up on CoD during the original MW2. I knew that the game was at its peak in terms of how good it felt all around, and when I realized that Treyarch and Infinityward had no intention of actually supporting a game long term and If I wanted to play with my friends, I had to spend another $60 every year for practically the same experience, that was when I decided I was all set. In that time frame since, I would have had to spend $850+ on base games just to stay concurrent with the franchise. Its absurd.
Anybody who defends the latest COD is so unbelievably delusional it makes me sad for humanity. You like the multiplayer from the last game that you just payed another $70 for.
What pisses me off the most is that for the base price you can’t even play as the main characters. You have to pay and additional $30 to play as price, ghost, or soap. That’s incredibly annoying. Which is one of the reasons I haven’t bought a COD game in years.
1:17 i am of the opinion that if the game is not an mmo. then it has no business being over 200 gigabytes or even 100 gigabytes. the games files must've not been compressed, causing the bloat in file size. the kinds of files that tend to be the culprit are texture and sound files. compression exists for these use jpg for textures that dont have an alpha channel! use ogg for all sound files! and watch the games size dive down to more reasonable levels! as long as the textures resolution is at least 1024/1024 or 2048/2048. no one will notice the compression unless they zoom in really really close. i hate how just because terabyte drives exist game companies just did away with compression with the excuse of. wElL wE gOt DrIvEs ThAt HoLd MoRe DaTa. but that means you'd have to uninstall a game just to play another one! and you'd have to do that again and again an again over and over because they are too damn lazy to compress their files! this rant is brought to by someone that hates bloated games!
That’s a club I’ll happily join. Games that frankly don’t deserve their file size is a quick ticket to uninstalling the moment I’m even like “eh maybe I’ll play that one again idk”, then there’s no shot I re install when it requires I remove five games to install it back
My issue with COD is on Xbox it tells you the games are free (on gamepass) so you download the entire COD package, then trying to run one of the game gives a purchase now screen. It's annoying and for a casual gamer like myself; very confusing
The best one for me was the game that you had to pay extra to unlock hard mode. Then someone from COD went to work from BMW and you have to pay extra to unlock the seat warmers.
Something else to note is the value of the special editions of the games went down significantly aswell. Back in the day when you bought the hardened edition you got a lot of physical things and digital content but they've scrapped that too. Modern warfare 2019 was the last cod game to give you more than just the steelbook. Now you're lucky to even get the steelbook. Cold war and vanguard didn't even have a steelbook. The old games put so much effort into the special editions of the games like how world at war gave you a flask or MW3 had all this classified documentation and photos of Price and his squad. Hell even advanced warfare gave you a god damn atlas themed hard cover manual. It's sad to see how far they've fallen.
You have made a good video. You have explained in an excellent way about why I left this franchise since 11 years ago (Black Ops 2 was the last COD I got to buy) You have a huge potential for videos about the reality of the modern video game industry. May your projects be fulfilled in 2024. If you need ideas for more content on your channel I can think of one: A video about the mentality of excusing abusive consumer policies just because it's "Free" To Play.
I can remember when activision blizzard actually cared about entertaining their audience, instead of wanting to squeeze every bit of money out of everybody and turning both new and old players away from the franchise while doing it.
@TheKingerd I love you dude… but TH-camrs and influencers including your good mate Act Man have been trying to inform normies about this for well over a decade and yet they still buy the game… I think COD sells on its name alone, it’s a status thing… there’s clearly better games around but that’s not what matters here.
Eh, it’s true the nature of “new” ideas is always moving forward, but I think if people stop talking about it that’s how we see it accelerate way faster than we ever thought possible. Loot boxes I think are a decent example of what can happen if enough people get sick enough of the greed
The truth is that gamers have let this happen. Year after year, gamers preorder shitty games that anyone with half a brain could tell you will be terrible. Those games end up being bad, and the cycle continues
i still cannot believe people buy these games every year. play for a week and then complain about them not being good. if they just stopped buying for one year the whole system gets changed immediately. but they wont
to be fair with black ops 4, it was supposed to have a campaign but apparently it was so bad that it got scrapped and they had to make blackout in the last few months
I think when we talk about kills I think this is partially the reason people tend to use cheap things like lock ons, ucavs, lis missiles, explosive weapons, etc. to harass people and ruin their days to win. But at the main goal is as you said whatever it takes to make the other team ineffective and not being able to counteract what they died to. This is why still to this day you still got people still bitching on lock ons, vehicles, cheap gadgets, etc.
I was done with CoD a long time ago. I think it’s the refresh every year. I think they should have 2 games; maybe 3. Past, present, future. And just update them. The “need” for separate games every year has long disappeared.
I lost interest around the first Black Ops. I did get CoD WW2 when that came out a few years ago and enjoyed it, but really I don't care too much about the series at all anymore. If you ask me, the whole series peaked with the original Modern Warfare trilogy. Edit: I'm largely speaking for campaigns. Og MW1 and 2 are the only ones I played online. That hyped died out pretty quick as I usually go for single player experiences.
AAA is no longer more like CCC+ the smart money is moving to games that still provide loads of value. It's unfortunate that the big publishers have realised they have left boat loads of value on the table, it surprises me they didn't extract it quicker. However the future is bright whilst our beloved franchises are decaying AI will go some way to help smaller developers with less budget make expansive and engaging games but even then solid narratives and experiences in single player will become rarer overall. Buy the gems from smaller studios, torrent big budget shovelware and avoid live service like the cancer it is.
2007-2012 is when COD was at its best. black ops 2 is still the best 1 to me. after MW3 2023 showed that there is worse campaign's than ghosts. and ghosts is where the series started going downhill. over the last few years i've wanted to get the early call of duty games like OG's before COD 4 came out. i have COD 1 and 2 on steam and i can see why this series became a big deal.
Thank the average COD gamer tor buying into these microtransactions. Jim Sterling predicted this would be the norm years back and I personally hated this trend moving into the mainstream. Good video, Kingerd.
Huh. Weird. This video hasn't exploding onto the trending page. It's almost as if COD players don't want to hear truths laid out for them to contend with. They'll never change and they'll be equally to blame for the continued decay of the gaming industry, alongside FIFA players and other such copy-and-paste sports games. I saw your survey asking who still buys COD games. The vast majority said they don't. Made me wonder how many actually still buy COD shit. It's in trend to hate on COD but I'm certain half the people shitting on COD still buy into it every year. Or at least every other year.
I was very shocked by those results to say the least, not because I assume everyone’s a cod shill but because I know cod is a juggernaut and has likely infected its way into most people’s households at least once; end of the day it all comes down to what its players tolerate. And by making this video I was reminded that… they’ll tolerate quite a bit
I just literally unplugged my Xbox one day, stopped paying for game pass and live, and haven't plugged it back in for years now. I had a full kit with turtle beaches elite 2 controller, 5TB of expanded storage, the works. Now it's all in storage until one day when games are complete again. So probably forever.....
We treated paid DLCs far too harshly 😂 10 years from now people will probably say the same about loot boxes or $20 skins, who knows what egregious schemes they’ll cook up next
I gave up with this series after WW2, anyone still playing after that must either be kids who have never played a call of duty game or people with the video game version of Stockholm syndrome. Surely anyone with rational thought knew it was over after the WW2 headquarters watching people open crates to get dabbing emotes for your character and the fact that they had to change the way the divisions system worked during the lifespan to try and keep people playing.
CoD had something good going with the reboot of Modern Warfare in 2019. If they’d just abandoned the annual release model from then on, I think CoD would be back up there with the best of them today
Y’know kingerd might not feel superior to those who buy these cod games every year… but I do, a very good and critical video nonetheless that should have been made a lot sooner by, idk somebody
Man am I happy that the last CoD I buyed was MW 2019, since that was/is the last time it feels like they actually tried something new. Now it's just reselling and reskining. I get that some ppl say that almost every CoD is a reskin, but MW 2019 feels new since it was on a new engine and felt like the campain wasn't half-assed. Yeah the mtx and the progression tied to it was BS and some design were... Intresting let's put it that way, but to me that's more on the excutives, not on the devs. I understand that some peapole don't like MW 2019 and I fully accept that. But for me it is the best Morden CoD. Great vid Kingerd. Keep the insightful content coming.
Thank you! And I actually agree, even though ironically modern warfare 2019 is a reboot. It was the last new cod I played where I actually felt like i was playing a new game
As someone who A: thinks painting a gun with tiger stripes is stupid and fugly, and B: Hasn't played CoD since United Offensive, I find the new games multiplayer to be the video game equivalent of "the most annoying sound in the world"
I honestly do not remember the microtransactions for Black Ops 2. I knew there was the map packs, but fuck me, the gun skins and shit just went in one ear and out the other.
I'd play MW3 for like 40 bucks maybe, but even then the store feels really overwhelming to look at. I know, "just ignore it!" but it's *right there*, and I'm recovering from a gambling addiction, so easier said than done.
I saw their downward trend for the original MW2. I got mad b/c they had broken elements of their game but were then demanding i pay money for a map pack. Then i was basically locked out of multiplayer b/c i didn't buy the new maps and matchmaking had them every where...so when i tried to join, i was kicked out b/c i didn't have new maps. I never bought another CoD game after that. BF4 was the last game i preordered b/c it launched in such a terrible state, that i refuse to give companies money if they couldn't do better than that. I refuse to buy a game if it doesn't have campaign and/or coop as an option...so basically i haven't bought very many new games. My steam library is filled with games like FarmSim, Green Hell, Eve Online and Elden ring. I hoped more gamers would do the same, and some are starting to do that now, but games are marketed to kids now who don't know they are getting robbed blind b/c these types of games are all they know. For older gamers like myself, we grew up with games that were sold as complete games but someone who is 10 years old now grew up with pay walls, incomplete games, paid cosmetics, loot crates, etc. So I don't think we'll see games like we used to, b/c kids today will keep buying new trash simply out of ignorance.
The pizza analogy is god thinking. In my case it’s a pizza with olives and anchovies, which means I was never interested in the full pie to begin with. But I can see why this would be infuriating to those who like this kind of pizza.
The original MW2 is my favourite online game of all time. I’ve spent thousands of hours on that game and I miss getting hate mail everyday. The funny thing about that is that I never bought the map packs and even until today I’ve never played them.
The actual gb size for most cod games are just stupid particularly on consoles limited by free space i dread to imagine how many games are deleted to make space. Mw3 2023 is 240GB on ps5 elite dangerous the game with a scale replica of the Milky Way is only 75gb
For me, Black Ops 2 was where I gave up on CoD. I played the first half of it and it wasn't until about 6 years later that I actually bothered to finish it. Even when the 360 was coming to the end of its run I was finding a lot of the games just didn't interest me much.
If they could somehow enforce the age restriction of Call of duty so that no one under the age of 18 can play the game, the sales of this franchise would plummet. Otherwise who the hell still buys this franchise? it must be kids?
Yeah, I used to be a big COD fan but noped out around MW3 days (the original). It's hard to overstate to the young folks how insane/amazing the first Modern Warfare was at the time. I won't explain because there are plenty of great videos about it... Ever since then, every game (even the relatively good ones) has essentially been a carbon copy of the first modern warfare. Except now they're so stuffed with bad monetization, lazy and short development cycles etc. Madden and COD players who shell out every year for the same game, pay tons in microtransactions, then eagerly await next product have essentially ruined gaming... I'm not blaming you necessarily, you may not have known better... But please, stop buying these games. Or if you can't do that, at LEAST stop preordering and buying stupid microtransactions. I beg you. For all of us.
how do I tell that to my friends who are 2 years younger than me (they are 18)? We played for 6 years together and our old games got boring so we moved on to other games. Now the second person in our group chat tells me he is about to buy cod points for the new cod. I tried everything to prevent this but it's pointless. The younger generations will constantly ruin gaming, there is no hope for cod anymore
So when cod does nothing new and just recycles old content you get mad, but when cod trys something new like the new mwz mode you get mad and just want the old round based content, recycled. Cod players when new stuff: 😡 Cod players when old stuff: 😡 Cod players when Cod: 😡
The map packs weren't good either in my opinion. They fractured the playerbase to those who had just the base game, those who had the season pass, and those who only had 1 or 2 DLCs. Once a new COD came out the DLC maps were basically dead in matchmaking. The zombie maps were worth it though since it could all be experienced solo or with friends.
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Keep denying the slope is slippery, don't be shocked when we've reached rock bottom Thank you for watching! What do YOU think is a realistic balance for CoD players and the shareholders to both be happy? Or, let's predict what great feature will be removed in the next one because it's too much work for a 74 billion dollar company!
(PS I know several studios work on CoD Games. Mother Goose is responsible for her gander so I say "Activision Blizzard" throughout, because pretending the studio-of-the-week that's working on the newest game has more power over the IP than Activision Blizzard is wild)
The best cod zombies for the consumer easily BO3 on steam. The workshop allows you to have basically an endless wave of new content made by the community, keeping the game alive, and on sale.
The one that's best for the consumer and shareholders is a cod that respect players, and doesn't take away so much, for the same price, and has a good story. Bo1 feels like the best balance, as it did have map packs, and the zombies expansion, but it also had a great story, with an overall simple premise on the surface.
Most people I've talked to speak highty of this golden era of cod. Cod4, b01, mw2, bo2.
The games could sell really well, and they were huge in their media presence.
We'll never see this side of cod, ever again.
ty for the video, it was honest and showed the problems of modern gaming but i don't have any sympathy for the COD,Battlefield,sports games and Destiny players they are mainly the reasons what we are getting today from the gaming companies, half assed,unfinished,buggy, lootbox filled trash games. all of those games can be dead and i wouldn't care tbh, i didn't buy a single cod,battlefield,fifa since decades ago and i stopped buying Destiny 2 expansions after the first one because wtf they turned the game into the Eververse simulator...
btw there is no realistic balance for players and these companies, their greed is sooooo high you can give them this entire planet and they will still ask for universe. this shit will never end unless gamers grows a pair of braincells and stop buying these kind of games.
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@@NURDVEVO For Console, BO1-BO3 are great games all respectively for their zombies maps, for Multiplayer, it's BO1 and BO2, for zombies, it's interchangeable, and Campaign, again, most people just stick to BO1-BO2. On PC, however, BO3 is easily some of the best zombies, simply because of the workshop. If people wanted to, we could've already had a fully-fleshed out and functional Zombie Chronicles 2 (Tranzit, MoTD, Buried).
I've heard works of Tranzit being remade, entirely, but nothing much for Buried, MoTD, Die Rise
You forgot to mention the Pay to Win Lootboxes from advanced warfare to ww2
I do love how gamers are gaslit and insulted by other games for having "too high expectations" for literally wanting the quality of gaming we had nearly 20 year's ago XD
your expectations are too high asking for a game that isnt bug ridden infested with microtransactions that has next to no content is way too demanding
A working, complete game out of the box is a “high expectation” in modern gaming.
@@Sas-freegrace yes thats being way to demanding
My expectations are ZERO cod is done for i stopped playing it years ago.
@@The-Red-Menace stop being demanding and asking for decent games
I stopped buying COD since BO2. I still think it's funny how people want COD to change for the better but still buy the yearly releases, Activision, Treyarch, Sledgehammer games and infinity ward are laughing their way to the bank. The little piggies complain but still eat up the slop.. People that still buy COD get what they deserve.
Nailed it 🙌🏻
?? there were some bangers after bo2 tho mw3 was good, the new modern warfares save for 3, etc
@@adamelghalmi9771 Nah it's all low tier garbage that's not worth £60
@@patchesgaming9139 pirate it if you'd like, i just don't think 60 is that much to get really pissed about. money's just the thing you use for shit you want. money isn't an issue for me, but i can understand if it is for you. i just like the games a ton, battlefield's gotten pretty bad but i like the multiplayer call of duty games a lot
@@patchesgaming9139 btw for context i just play on my ps5 or my kid's computer whenever i have time is all
It's really funny, and a bit scary, that your timeline of the downfall of Call of Duty exactly follows my personal timeline of completely giving up on the series entirely. The removal of campaign, and the subsequent forced online crap just to shove a bunch of ads into the menu tanked any possibility of me ever buying a COD game ever again, unless they massively overhaul and change everything, which we know they won't.
You just made me realize how this game caters to the most common denominator out there. Is it any surprise that those who play dozens of hours of COD don't play other games besides shooters and more COD?
I quit at MW3
People that talk about the campaign being their favorite part are the people who played it once and never played it again imo
@@jerseylife8701 a good campaign can be well worth the price though. And campaigns used to be, and still are to a lot of people, a huge reason why they even are interested in the next cod that gets spewed out; if anything regardless of number of playthroughs the declining campaign quality still illustrates the decreased effort being put into these games over time to anything that isn’t a new skin
@@jerseylife8701 Nah I've replayed blops campain 3 times now
I feel like gaming will become full circle and eventually we will go all the way back to pay per play like at the old arcade stores. You want to play a round in multiplayer? No worries, just 1 dollar for 3 lives. You're new to the game? Have a bonus 10 lives. Getting kills will get you more lives which incentivises you to play more. Run out of lives before the games over? No worries for just 50cents, you can get get another 3 lives to help your team win.
I wonder what will get tried first, paying for ammo or paying for respawns💀
"When you are six hours into playing Battlefield and you run out of ammo in your clip, and we ask you for a dollar to reload, you're really not very price sensitive at that point in time." - John Riccitiello Former CEO of Electronic Arts
@@TheKingerd the respawn thing was already tried, Warframe and Candy Crush has it xD
Ngl that sounds really cool as an arcade machine, maybe 50 cents a life? But for a home console or pc game it's absolutely horrible
@@TheKingerdpaying for an extra life in Warzone wouldn’t surprise me
Sadly loyal CoD fans will always shill even when there's no pizza left, they'll be nibbling crust bits.
I know a lot of these “playing it anyway” types are sad dudes. Shit life with a shit job that pays no money. Comes home and gets bitched at by a woman that doesn’t love him but won’t leave. He can’t make her leave cause they’re financially dependent on eachother. Like for some dudes it’s all they have. I know a couple guys like that. It’s sad
Makes no sense ig they like being used and manipulated by daddy ea.
Let's not forget the people who claim that no one ever played Call of Duty for the campaign, completely ignoring the fact that the franchise thrived on its memorable campaigns, providing multiplayer as an added bonus.
Yeah. The campaign is what made the first 2 games especially popular, it was WW2 story in a time when the only other WW2 FPS games were Battlefield 1942 and Medal of Honour. And then the Multiplayer took everything great about campaign and let you fight your friends or strangers.
I used to buy cod games FOR the campaign. The campaign is what sold them for a lot of people
@@TheGoblinFury same.
That’s real
Captain Price wouldn’t matter as a sought after cosmetic if people didn’t care about the campaign
Truly this is the darkest age of gaming.
2012.. it really was the end of the world 😅
chill we just got Baldur's Gate 3, ToTK, Alan Wake 2 and GTA 6 announcement
@@EmuQuestyeah I mean a ton of triple A games especially are terrible now but we arguably are in the best period for gaming ever currently, we have so many options
I mean, probably the darkest age for the franchises we all grew up with and love, but actually for other games, other studios and even indie games it is just the beginning, just wake up from the CoD dream and dare to explore new horizons, yes, we used to love this games and at some point the memories we made there were our everything, but now, all we can do is to remember those golden years and move on, new memories and experiences await for us to discover them, they're just somewhere else.
@@EmuQuest Rockstar is just as bad if not worse.
I feel like cod is kinda just “dying” not financially, but identity wise, same as battlefield.
Couldn't agree more. When the last 5 games are having to almost exclusively pander/market off nostalgia for old games and their plotpoints/ideas just to sell, you can truly see just how dead this franchise is in terms of creativity and iteration.
Nah bruh. When I think about answering the Call of Duty I think of playing as Nicki Minaj and weird realistic cat headed soldiers. Totally. Yeah...
But for real, my last CoD was the first Black Ops. I'm just here for the lols now.
I don't know how many macro transactions are being sold compared to the cost of the game to produce but mwiii did terribly.
They used some bullshit player metric to make it look like it was doing well.
I know one person that owns it. Compared to the 30+ I played 2019 with.
Finally, a medical expert we can trust. Also, oh man. I forgot a time when skins cost 0 to 1$ to loot box to 20-25$..... Where did we go so wrong. Also i am old enough to remember that we bought COD for the excellent campaign and the multiplayer was a true casual fun.
lol yes to Dr Sins 😂 and same, cods been trying so hard to do away with campaigns for years now without even trying to hide it
As soon as microtransactions became a thing it was only a matter of time. They were never going to stop at 1$.
They want us to believe single player is dead so we only want to focus on multiplayer, because they can milk the multiplayer. But, the truth is, COD needs a great single player with great multiplayer and a third mode like zombies or BR in order to have value.
I lust for a good CoD campaign. Agreed, they’d love nothing more than for the masses to buy into “who needs a campaign”, it’d be one less thing for them to have to do to justify a fully priced game
I like your channel. Even if this video doesn't change anything, it's nice that someone's keeping score so well with the gaming industry's shenanigans and the poor arguments people use to defend those practices.
Thank you! I think they’re just hoping their player base is too young to remember what gaming was like only a decade ago and the people that played in the late 2000s-early 2010s will just go away (you know, the players that are the reason they blew up when they did)
@TheKingerd I think so too. There's enough fresh gamers coming in to the market every year to perpetuate this cycle. They get in on the hype and/or pulled in by friends, and by the time they realize what their money is actually getting them it's already in the hands of the company. Any backlash from burnt customers is then replaced by next year's graduating class, and we repeat. It's a playbook that's worked for over a decade with no real end in sight. Especially now with how normalized battle passes are now.
Vote. With. Your. Wallet. - It's as simple as that... if people keep throwing millions of dollars at them, they will keep doing it.
as someone who has never played a single CoD game, i see this as an absolute win
The older games were fun. The first Modern Warfare campaign was something to behold at the time due to how new and exciting it was for video games. It's basically been the exact same thing ever since then with a lot of weird superfluous content.
I mean there are better shooters nowadays
The first modern warfare and world at war are the only ones I played, and all I needed to play. I only played the campaign in both anyway.
Just play single player, almost all of them have good campaigns. The multiplayer has gone downhill since Black ops 1/MW2
I felt so scammed that mw2 had like 4 maps at release I didn’t even pay for the game and still felt scammed
The whole new modern warfare trilogy is a spit in the face to the og games. Just straight up disrespectful.
@@Souleater_4242 modern warfare 1 wasnt bad bro
The last CoD I bought was the original modern warfare 2 that came out a decade ago, and I am happy with my stopping point. I grew up with CoD, they used to be so good. It's a shame that people keep vomiting money at this greedy company. What a waste of IP and dev talent.
I’d argue that the last slice has already been taken away and that you truly get NOTHING buying these new cods. Fun and fair gameplay are not a guarantee, you experience is thoroughly manipulated and tailored to keep you raging and guide you to their microtransaction mall. I can’t wait to see the next episode of the COD shitshow unfold, cause if this isn’t rock bottom, then holy shit what kind of dirty stunt can they pull off next?
SBMM and pay to win trash are already nibbling at that last slice to be sure. Shame so many can complain about it but still throw money at it regardless
And microtransaction mall, that’s a good one imma keep that in my back pocket
Correct me if I am wrong but the excuse back then was it not that "they're only charging money to pay the devs" but now it's the corp overlords lol
yep, you're basically paying for workplace harassment culture and the layoffs at this point
Record revenues, meet record layoffs.
“But micro transactions to support the devs guys!!!”
The devs work 9 to 5 and get paid by the hour. It goes to the suits
Ive witnessed the downfall of gaming myself, from a golden age to a dark ages run by big corporations and greed. To me gaming has been dead for years, all the focus is on creating online games where you just keep paying in one way or another. I only play single player offline games that are complete on release, I rarely do any update and whats the point of dlc. I have no reason to start playing a game again months after Ive finished it. I just dont understand modern gaming. When i got the Ps5 it wanted to me to download like 100 gb of updates for a game, so i just never played it. Now days i just stick with playing ps2 games, n64, gamecube. thats it, the golden age games
Start looking in the indie scene, I guess?
Greed is rewarded under capitalism. This was always going to happen.
Plenty of amazing games on the scene now. Not saying that gaming is good now, but there are amazing games that come out every single year.
You just need to be smart and not buy trash. I finished metro exodus the other day and it's one of the best games I have ever played.
I am just saying that you don't need to go back to ps2
@@BleedForTheWorld no it wast,your success depends on whether or not he consumer would your product and services and you see this in lower sales and lower player count
This is why I like Nintendo games (besides the recent Mario Sports/Switch Sports entries). I'm getting a full game that I can play offline! And NO microtransactions! Woo! Thank God! (A lot of indies, too!)
Your uploads never disappoint. Very surprised at the size of your channel. Keep at it mate you'll hit the algorithm soon enough
Thanks brethren 🤝
@@TheKingerdyou hit the algorithm
algorithm being colloquialism for jackpot will never not be funny
MW3 was supposed to be an Advanced Warfare sequel but late into the development, Activision told the developers that they wanted a MW3 reboot instead.
Honestly I feel like the quote “The only winning move is not to play” can be applied to many AAA game company nowadays. The only slight chance we going to see our favorite game series became good again is to simply stop defending them.
I tapped out when I borrowed Battlefield 3 (I think) from a friend. Stuck it in the Xbox and it told me that the disc wasn't registered to the Xbox and I had to purchase it to play.
That's the exact moment I quit playing new games. Have been replaying old titles ever since.
The Call of Duty franchise has lost me, and an army of customers. We just want good solid Single Player Campaigns. Multiplayer is crap, especially when you don't live in a large city where the signal is weak. And now even when you buy the console disc, you have to go online for a gigantuan data download just to play the Single player campaign . It's a bad joke now. I've practically given up on looking for new games now. It's a desert for decent first person games with a decent Single Player Campaign nowadays.
if you're playing cod in 2024 you lowkey deserv it. up there with sports games for the laziest video games ever
I hope the lawsuits against EA still using lootboxes actually result in something this time
I have only owned 2 COD games in my whole life, BO2 and Advanced Warfare. And I've never spent a single cent on any micro transactions or loot-boxes (Mainly because I'm poor lmao).
You have no idea how happy it makes me to see those sales charts and know that i have contributed nothing towards the greed and gluttony that Activision has been showing in recent years.
It's crazy how they just fall for it throwing money at activision while they serve them shit. But i mean ea has been doing the same shit with madden for years those brainwashed fans spend thousands every year on a roster update.
I played CoD 1-3 (2003-2006) back when it was set in WW2 ,the game was story oriented and was very engaging. I didn't play CoD 4:Modern Warfare because my PC at that time was too outdated and couldn't handle the game.
I tried getting back into CoD during Blops2 but weirdly I find that I have motion sickness from playing the game. Ever since then I stopped playing any CoD games because I'm scared it'll give me motion sickness.
It's probably due to the low fov you're playing at. I had motion sickness and severe headaches going into Borderlands which I really wanted to play but couldn't. I noticed I wasn't getting ill while playing Left 4 Dead and that's when I found out about fov and my deal with motion sickness.
I left after the first modem warfare 2 it was a good solid game. Only played black ops 2 zombies and 1v1 matchs at buddy's havnt really touched em since
Skill issue
I used to get a feeling of anger whenever I'd talk to someone 10 years ago and they'd say "I only buy Cod for the multiplayer." And completely ignore the campaign. Now look, they prioritize the multiplayer and completely ignore other aspects of the game. Hope yall enjoy them micro transactions tho.
I remember when Black Ops 4 came out they PROMISED, SWORE TO GOD, that there are going to be no lootboxes, because of the backlash they gained since recent previous entries had certain weapons locked behind a lootbox gacha system. They did the scummiest move ever - they released the game without any lootboxes, waited for the reviews to kick in, got their praise and good reviews, THEN ADDED THE LOOTBOX SYSTEM. And now we're at the point where they're selling unfinished games for $70, not localizing the prices to poor countries and abandoning all of their titles a year after release, when they put out a new game. You honestly have to be the definition of naive to buy COD games.
Single Player gamer to Multiplayer Gamer:
“Wow, sucks to be you.”
Call of duty world at war and black ops 1 had multiple zombies maps
In black ops 2 you only had one map with the base game, if you bought the separate zombies mode for pc, and for just all the maps it cost more than the base game which is campaign+zombies+multiplayer. So to just play more than one map your paying over 70$
The last cod I truly liked in recent memory was mw2019 which I assume most would agree but I can’t buy cods yearly they’re just all the same copy paste crap every year hate the operator skin stuff warzone is… warzone. I like many others miss the old days it felt like they really tried and cared back then and I hope Microsoft owning activision now can possibly give the series a real return in a positive way
I do too. Not holding my breath, but seeing a series that used to be so peak getting shafted by tHe BuSsInEsS mOdEl is always a bummer to see.
Mw2019 is entirely inferior to the original Modern Warfare, and while most would agree with you, it's hot garbage, but not as hot garbage as Vanguard or WW2. The latest MW2 is also hot garbage, even more so compared to the original MW2. I might add that the recent advertisement for MW3 attempted to use eminem just like the original MW2's advertisement did.
@@CanadianTehGamercod4 had no host migration which meant hosts could rage quit and end public matches.
Agree with everything else tho
@@CanadianTehGamerat least WW2 took us away from the futuristic bull crap that BO2 introduced. BO1 was PEAK COD
@davidornelas3326 Eh. I'd say World at War was Peak CoD. Granted I'm slightly biased, I'd say MW2 (OG) was peak CoD.
For me, COD ended on the original Modern Warefare 3. I tried the warzone and i felt overwhelmed on the menu with in game ads and in game currencies. Finding my way out of that menu was COD in itself to get out of it and start the actual game
I actually gave up on CoD during the original MW2. I knew that the game was at its peak in terms of how good it felt all around, and when I realized that Treyarch and Infinityward had no intention of actually supporting a game long term and If I wanted to play with my friends, I had to spend another $60 every year for practically the same experience, that was when I decided I was all set. In that time frame since, I would have had to spend $850+ on base games just to stay concurrent with the franchise. Its absurd.
Anybody who defends the latest COD is so unbelievably delusional it makes me sad for humanity. You like the multiplayer from the last game that you just payed another $70 for.
What pisses me off the most is that for the base price you can’t even play as the main characters. You have to pay and additional $30 to play as price, ghost, or soap. That’s incredibly annoying. Which is one of the reasons I haven’t bought a COD game in years.
As much as I like cold war and ghost. This guy is pretty much right about the cod series as a whole
This video just makes me feel depressed on how far call of duty has fallen...greed killed cod
Pov: the cod franchise after Black Ops 2: 5:41
1:17 i am of the opinion that if the game is not an mmo. then it has no business being over 200 gigabytes or even 100 gigabytes.
the games files must've not been compressed, causing the bloat in file size.
the kinds of files that tend to be the culprit are texture and sound files.
compression exists for these
use jpg for textures that dont have an alpha channel!
use ogg for all sound files!
and watch the games size dive down to more reasonable levels!
as long as the textures resolution is at least 1024/1024 or 2048/2048.
no one will notice the compression unless they zoom in really really close.
i hate how just because terabyte drives exist game companies just did away with compression
with the excuse of. wElL wE gOt DrIvEs ThAt HoLd MoRe DaTa.
but that means you'd have to uninstall a game just to play another one!
and you'd have to do that again and again an again over and over
because they are too damn lazy to compress their files!
this rant is brought to by someone that hates bloated games!
That’s a club I’ll happily join. Games that frankly don’t deserve their file size is a quick ticket to uninstalling the moment I’m even like “eh maybe I’ll play that one again idk”, then there’s no shot I re install when it requires I remove five games to install it back
We make memes about CoD and make fun of them, but as long as people buy the games, Activision are the ones laughing.
My issue with COD is on Xbox it tells you the games are free (on gamepass) so you download the entire COD package, then trying to run one of the game gives a purchase now screen. It's annoying and for a casual gamer like myself; very confusing
The best one for me was the game that you had to pay extra to unlock hard mode. Then someone from COD went to work from BMW and you have to pay extra to unlock the seat warmers.
Something else to note is the value of the special editions of the games went down significantly aswell. Back in the day when you bought the hardened edition you got a lot of physical things and digital content but they've scrapped that too. Modern warfare 2019 was the last cod game to give you more than just the steelbook. Now you're lucky to even get the steelbook. Cold war and vanguard didn't even have a steelbook. The old games put so much effort into the special editions of the games like how world at war gave you a flask or MW3 had all this classified documentation and photos of Price and his squad. Hell even advanced warfare gave you a god damn atlas themed hard cover manual. It's sad to see how far they've fallen.
You have made a good video. You have explained in an excellent way about why I left this franchise since 11 years ago (Black Ops 2 was the last COD I got to buy) You have a huge potential for videos about the reality of the modern video game industry. May your projects be fulfilled in 2024.
If you need ideas for more content on your channel I can think of one: A video about the mentality of excusing abusive consumer policies just because it's "Free" To Play.
Thank you, and thanks for the idea! Free to play being used as a scapegoat is definitely a interesting topic I can use
I can remember when activision blizzard actually cared about entertaining their audience, instead of wanting to squeeze every bit of money out of everybody and turning both new and old players away from the franchise while doing it.
@TheKingerd I love you dude… but TH-camrs and influencers including your good mate Act Man have been trying to inform normies about this for well over a decade and yet they still buy the game…
I think COD sells on its name alone, it’s a status thing… there’s clearly better games around but that’s not what matters here.
Eh, it’s true the nature of “new” ideas is always moving forward, but I think if people stop talking about it that’s how we see it accelerate way faster than we ever thought possible. Loot boxes I think are a decent example of what can happen if enough people get sick enough of the greed
The truth is that gamers have let this happen. Year after year, gamers preorder shitty games that anyone with half a brain could tell you will be terrible. Those games end up being bad, and the cycle continues
i still cannot believe people buy these games every year. play for a week and then complain about them not being good. if they just stopped buying for one year the whole system gets changed immediately. but they wont
The Xbox 360 days were peak gaming
to be fair with black ops 4, it was supposed to have a campaign but apparently it was so bad that it got scrapped and they had to make blackout in the last few months
5:41 That sound effect is embedded in my brain from so many years of watching Hell's Kitchen lmao 😂
Why do people buy this crap???
I think when we talk about kills I think this is partially the reason people tend to use cheap things like lock ons, ucavs, lis missiles, explosive weapons, etc. to harass people and ruin their days to win. But at the main goal is as you said whatever it takes to make the other team ineffective and not being able to counteract what they died to. This is why still to this day you still got people still bitching on lock ons, vehicles, cheap gadgets, etc.
I was done with CoD a long time ago. I think it’s the refresh every year. I think they should have 2 games; maybe 3. Past, present, future. And just update them. The “need” for separate games every year has long disappeared.
I lost interest around the first Black Ops. I did get CoD WW2 when that came out a few years ago and enjoyed it, but really I don't care too much about the series at all anymore. If you ask me, the whole series peaked with the original Modern Warfare trilogy.
Edit: I'm largely speaking for campaigns. Og MW1 and 2 are the only ones I played online. That hyped died out pretty quick as I usually go for single player experiences.
weapon skins are garbage in every game they appear in... its just bloatware slowly and surely boosting your filesize
To an extent. realistic weapon camos or simple two to three tone weapon skins are cool
10:28 NAHH SHE LOOKS LIKE THE “My name is Skyler White Yo” GUY LMFAOOO.
AAA is no longer more like CCC+ the smart money is moving to games that still provide loads of value. It's unfortunate that the big publishers have realised they have left boat loads of value on the table, it surprises me they didn't extract it quicker. However the future is bright whilst our beloved franchises are decaying AI will go some way to help smaller developers with less budget make expansive and engaging games but even then solid narratives and experiences in single player will become rarer overall. Buy the gems from smaller studios, torrent big budget shovelware and avoid live service like the cancer it is.
The only thing worst that corporates doing this kind of disgrace for gaming are the consumers defending all this crap
21:35 we allready had exclusive weapons, lol. Remember the peacekeeper mp from BO2?
2007-2012 is when COD was at its best. black ops 2 is still the best 1 to me. after MW3 2023 showed that there is worse campaign's than ghosts. and ghosts is where the series started going downhill. over the last few years i've wanted to get the early call of duty games like OG's before COD 4 came out. i have COD 1 and 2 on steam and i can see why this series became a big deal.
Thank the average COD gamer tor buying into these microtransactions. Jim Sterling predicted this would be the norm years back and I personally hated this trend moving into the mainstream. Good video, Kingerd.
Players are both the problem and the solution 🤷🏻♂️ And thank you!
Hey you didn’t mention the complete loss of thematic integrity through the inclusion of non authentic Fortnite skins and anime tracers etc
Huh. Weird. This video hasn't exploding onto the trending page. It's almost as if COD players don't want to hear truths laid out for them to contend with. They'll never change and they'll be equally to blame for the continued decay of the gaming industry, alongside FIFA players and other such copy-and-paste sports games.
I saw your survey asking who still buys COD games. The vast majority said they don't. Made me wonder how many actually still buy COD shit. It's in trend to hate on COD but I'm certain half the people shitting on COD still buy into it every year. Or at least every other year.
I was very shocked by those results to say the least, not because I assume everyone’s a cod shill but because I know cod is a juggernaut and has likely infected its way into most people’s households at least once; end of the day it all comes down to what its players tolerate. And by making this video I was reminded that… they’ll tolerate quite a bit
Jeez the editing. Is just too damn good! lol
You had me in the first half 😂 thank you!
I just literally unplugged my Xbox one day, stopped paying for game pass and live, and haven't plugged it back in for years now. I had a full kit with turtle beaches elite 2 controller, 5TB of expanded storage, the works. Now it's all in storage until one day when games are complete again. So probably forever.....
The file size is from Game Modes we dont play😂
I’d take paid map packs over live service any day. Same with battlefield premium. We didn’t know how good we had it
We treated paid DLCs far too harshly 😂 10 years from now people will probably say the same about loot boxes or $20 skins, who knows what egregious schemes they’ll cook up next
I gave up with this series after WW2, anyone still playing after that must either be kids who have never played a call of duty game or people with the video game version of Stockholm syndrome. Surely anyone with rational thought knew it was over after the WW2 headquarters watching people open crates to get dabbing emotes for your character and the fact that they had to change the way the divisions system worked during the lifespan to try and keep people playing.
I like that dog that showed up for a nanosecond, went 'oh, dad's workin'' and left.
Not a 70 dollar roster swap like sports games.. yet. Wasted laziness on paid skins. Otherwise, every year, the teams could just look different
10:02 wasn’t Black Ops the most story focused of all the sub-series? Weird game to cut it from.
CoD had something good going with the reboot of Modern Warfare in 2019. If they’d just abandoned the annual release model from then on, I think CoD would be back up there with the best of them today
Shout out to all the kings who kept their wallets shut
Y’know kingerd might not feel superior to those who buy these cod games every year… but I do, a very good and critical video nonetheless that should have been made a lot sooner by, idk somebody
Tapped out when they took away the physical item whilst insisting you stay online, spore. That’s how long ago this started.
You guys have play Declassified on Vita?
Gamers: I hate CoD now!
Same gamers: [places pre-prder for the next game] MaYbE iT'lL cHaNgE!
CoD peaked with CoD 2, CoD 4, CoD WaW, and BO1. Everything after has been gargabe except BO3 for having so many classic zombie maps.
Man am I happy that the last CoD I buyed was MW 2019, since that was/is the last time it feels like they actually tried something new. Now it's just reselling and reskining. I get that some ppl say that almost every CoD is a reskin, but MW 2019 feels new since it was on a new engine and felt like the campain wasn't half-assed. Yeah the mtx and the progression tied to it was BS and some design were... Intresting let's put it that way, but to me that's more on the excutives, not on the devs. I understand that some peapole don't like MW 2019 and I fully accept that. But for me it is the best Morden CoD.
Great vid Kingerd. Keep the insightful content coming.
Thank you! And I actually agree, even though ironically modern warfare 2019 is a reboot. It was the last new cod I played where I actually felt like i was playing a new game
As someone who A: thinks painting a gun with tiger stripes is stupid and fugly, and B: Hasn't played CoD since United Offensive, I find the new games multiplayer to be the video game equivalent of "the most annoying sound in the world"
Finally a youtuber with common sense that recognizes the reasons cod is dying
I honestly do not remember the microtransactions for Black Ops 2. I knew there was the map packs, but fuck me, the gun skins and shit just went in one ear and out the other.
I'd play MW3 for like 40 bucks maybe, but even then the store feels really overwhelming to look at. I know, "just ignore it!" but it's *right there*, and I'm recovering from a gambling addiction, so easier said than done.
I saw their downward trend for the original MW2. I got mad b/c they had broken elements of their game but were then demanding i pay money for a map pack. Then i was basically locked out of multiplayer b/c i didn't buy the new maps and matchmaking had them every where...so when i tried to join, i was kicked out b/c i didn't have new maps. I never bought another CoD game after that. BF4 was the last game i preordered b/c it launched in such a terrible state, that i refuse to give companies money if they couldn't do better than that. I refuse to buy a game if it doesn't have campaign and/or coop as an option...so basically i haven't bought very many new games. My steam library is filled with games like FarmSim, Green Hell, Eve Online and Elden ring. I hoped more gamers would do the same, and some are starting to do that now, but games are marketed to kids now who don't know they are getting robbed blind b/c these types of games are all they know. For older gamers like myself, we grew up with games that were sold as complete games but someone who is 10 years old now grew up with pay walls, incomplete games, paid cosmetics, loot crates, etc. So I don't think we'll see games like we used to, b/c kids today will keep buying new trash simply out of ignorance.
The pizza analogy is god thinking.
In my case it’s a pizza with olives and anchovies, which means I was never interested in the full pie to begin with. But I can see why this would be infuriating to those who like this kind of pizza.
The original MW2 is my favourite online game of all time. I’ve spent thousands of hours on that game and I miss getting hate mail everyday. The funny thing about that is that I never bought the map packs and even until today I’ve never played them.
The actual gb size for most cod games are just stupid particularly on consoles limited by free space i dread to imagine how many games are deleted to make space. Mw3 2023 is 240GB on ps5 elite dangerous the game with a scale replica of the Milky Way is only 75gb
For me, Black Ops 2 was where I gave up on CoD. I played the first half of it and it wasn't until about 6 years later that I actually bothered to finish it.
Even when the 360 was coming to the end of its run I was finding a lot of the games just didn't interest me much.
Awesome vid! Loved all the old movie/cartoon references
If they could somehow enforce the age restriction of Call of duty so that no one under the age of 18 can play the game, the sales of this franchise would plummet. Otherwise who the hell still buys this franchise? it must be kids?
Yeah, I used to be a big COD fan but noped out around MW3 days (the original). It's hard to overstate to the young folks how insane/amazing the first Modern Warfare was at the time. I won't explain because there are plenty of great videos about it... Ever since then, every game (even the relatively good ones) has essentially been a carbon copy of the first modern warfare. Except now they're so stuffed with bad monetization, lazy and short development cycles etc. Madden and COD players who shell out every year for the same game, pay tons in microtransactions, then eagerly await next product have essentially ruined gaming... I'm not blaming you necessarily, you may not have known better... But please, stop buying these games. Or if you can't do that, at LEAST stop preordering and buying stupid microtransactions. I beg you. For all of us.
how do I tell that to my friends who are 2 years younger than me (they are 18)? We played for 6 years together and our old games got boring so we moved on to other games. Now the second person in our group chat tells me he is about to buy cod points for the new cod. I tried everything to prevent this but it's pointless. The younger generations will constantly ruin gaming, there is no hope for cod anymore
Can confirm. I play Warhammer, go fishing, killed my first deer, and sometimes dabble in early 2,000’s games when I want to play. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So when cod does nothing new and just recycles old content you get mad, but when cod trys something new like the new mwz mode you get mad and just want the old round based content, recycled.
Cod players when new stuff: 😡
Cod players when old stuff: 😡
Cod players when Cod: 😡
Stopped playing CoD 12 years ago, havent looked back since.
Looking back at it I was too harsh on the $15 map packs. I had no idea how good we had it
Same
The map packs weren't good either in my opinion. They fractured the playerbase to those who had just the base game, those who had the season pass, and those who only had 1 or 2 DLCs. Once a new COD came out the DLC maps were basically dead in matchmaking. The zombie maps were worth it though since it could all be experienced solo or with friends.
The last COD I owned around release was Infinite Warfare and before that it was Ghost. So I guess I got out at a five or six.
Commenting for engagement. Great video mate. I give up on cod years ago for these reasons.
Clever intro. Earned a subscriber. Have a great day.
Hahaha thanks 😂 glad to have you!