Negotiator101
Member
Absolutely unacceptable for Phil Spencer to release this garbage game to the market, thanks Microsoft for nothing! 
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‘Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’ Review Scores Are Below Redfall, Forspoken, Every COD Game
willothedog
Member
That does not make sense to what I asked?
ChorizoPicozo
Member
your question doesn't make sense to what I wrote.
willothedog
Member
And ignore.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
please, please, please don't ignore i beg you.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Pretty much this. Same thing is said every year about CoD.
omg it’s the worst ever!
This is finally going to be the year CoD dies!!
Fast forward, game makes billions.
Harping on the meta score is pointless as well because most of those scores are heavily impacted by the cash grab mentality ABK took with the content and also because most people who buy the game buy it for MP and zombies and apparently both of those are quite good in many respects.
I don’t want to buy the game because I don’t want to show ABK support for such nonsense, but it is a weird situation because I know MS just bought them and while they had no control over MW3, if you look at Redfall and Halo and Forza and Starfield, had MS completed the sale earlier than MW3 would have been delayed or kept to its original plan of being DLC. Maybe I’ll buy cheap on some sale down the line. Then again I thought the same thing about MW2 and it never dipped cheap enough for me to bite
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
Call of duty is slowing putting themselves in the irreverent conversation.
AngelMuffin
Member
I honestly don’t get the outrage. BLOPS 4 had NO campaign and sold over 14M copies. I DO buy CoD mainly for the campaign and didn’t buy BLOOS 4 and likely won’t buy MWIII, but I’m sure the game will still do huge numbers.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Reviews won't hurt this game at all. Word of mouth will.
GymWolf
Member
He still has his old job at gringott i guess.
Kerotan
Member
Well more money at launch but if legs are trash over the 12 months it could backfire. But Bobby doesn't care because he wasn't going to be around for the fallout anyway.
It's a fucking disgrace. If this was marketed as a €50 MW2 expansion it would be a 9/10 update. Instead it's a full game robbery and deserves 5/10. They have smeared the biggest brand in COD
Represent.
Banned
Microsoft won’t fix this, they will in fact make it worse. They’re gonna keep it cross gen, and release it on switch, lowering the quality even more. With more platforms to develop for
The franchise will have a quarter of the power it once held under MS management.
Gamepass, releasing on switch, cross gen the entire gen, you name it. Milked trash
Rip cod
The franchise will have a quarter of the power it once held under MS management.
Gamepass, releasing on switch, cross gen the entire gen, you name it. Milked trash
Rip cod
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Dream-Knife
Banned
It'll likely be cloud on switch, unless they mean switch 2.
Represent.
Banned
Knowing them, both.
Dream-Knife
Banned
What's wrong with native on switch 2?
COD is the casualist of casual shooters. They'll throw that great aim assist on there for the joycons and smbb it up.
Skifi28
Member
Yes, but also no. One game with a low score alone doesn't mean much, but if the trend continues this is how you ruin franchises. The people that you "tricked" into buying this release might not come back again.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Microsoft just cares that it generated the monies regardless of how it's recycled yearly. I bought MW2 last year and the last day 1 CoD before that was MW2 for PS3.
MonkeyClaw36
Banned
HOLY SHIT!!!! Trolling never has been this crystal clear. Either that, or you're thick as pigshit....
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Activision is already making around $2 billion profit per year. The same as Sony's entire gaming division. So despite Sony selling tons of first party games, 30% cuts on everything third party digital, sub plan fees etc.... Activision is a better business model.
Grildon Tundy
Member
Same reason Capcom "rebooted" Resident Evil after 6, even though 6 was the highest-selling RE to date.
They understood the impact of a release in a successful franchise with less-than-great reception impacts the NEXT entry's sales.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Redfall…..
MiguelItUp
Member
I hope they learn from this, will they? I can't say, honestly. Regardless of what happens, it's still going to sell well because it's Call of Duty. I just wish I could see the IP do better and better rather than same and same or worse.
twilo99
Member
Good for them!
MAX PAYMENT
Member
The first sentence acknowledges that it would have obviously been worked on before the acquisition. Wtf.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
Will still sell millions and nobody gives a fuck. Prime example the GTA Shitinitive Edition. Buggy piece of shit games that was a huge success even with low score shitty reviews all over the place.
Shakka43
Member
Yup, Modern Warfare, World at War, MW2, Black Ops and BO2 campaigns were all bangers, then BO3 poop the bed and it's been downhill ever since.
Represent.
Banned
Switch 2 is rumored to be PS4 levels of power. May as well be considered cross gen development
Trolling? You're just soft. Everything I said is pretty much a given. Get real. Not every disagreement = "trolling" God you people love to abuse that word.
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
No excuses for Activision management, but I do feel somewhat bad for the individual studio devs who've really been handed a no-win situation coming through and post-Covid.
All that disruption to the pipeline and they've been basically expected to carry on as if nothing has happened. Things were going off the rails a bit before the pandemic with Sledgehammer's project getting delayed/rebooted and Treyarch being forced to pull double-duty on pretty much everything since then.
Myself and a few friends were thinking about getting this year's game for Zombies, but its a ridiculous price to pay for what amounts to mishmash of rehashed content from Warzone and Cold War. Worse, knowing that Treyarch are also tasked with doing a full "proper" new iteration for next year's game makes it seem like the current version getting proper support over the next year seem like a massive stretch.
Its a mess.
All that disruption to the pipeline and they've been basically expected to carry on as if nothing has happened. Things were going off the rails a bit before the pandemic with Sledgehammer's project getting delayed/rebooted and Treyarch being forced to pull double-duty on pretty much everything since then.
Myself and a few friends were thinking about getting this year's game for Zombies, but its a ridiculous price to pay for what amounts to mishmash of rehashed content from Warzone and Cold War. Worse, knowing that Treyarch are also tasked with doing a full "proper" new iteration for next year's game makes it seem like the current version getting proper support over the next year seem like a massive stretch.
Its a mess.
Elder Legend
Banned
Not sure why people keep blaming Microsoft for a bad release when the deal was closed only roughly a month before the release of MW3.
Yes the game is terrible, and we've been given a free copy by the publisher and it won't be receiving a good score from us.
BUT
You think they can just magically turn then game around with a month left after all the bad decisions by the original executives (Bobby Kotick) and demands of the higher ups? Ya'll really either fucking stupid (most likely the case) or just mad that MS finally sealed the ABK deal or both? Anyone who blames MS for a shitty CoD release when they absolutely had no control over the game's development is going on ignore. You have no real genuine opinions, just plain hate and plastic toy fanboyism and a bunch of brand loyalists. Fuck you.
Yes the game is terrible, and we've been given a free copy by the publisher and it won't be receiving a good score from us.
BUT
You think they can just magically turn then game around with a month left after all the bad decisions by the original executives (Bobby Kotick) and demands of the higher ups? Ya'll really either fucking stupid (most likely the case) or just mad that MS finally sealed the ABK deal or both? Anyone who blames MS for a shitty CoD release when they absolutely had no control over the game's development is going on ignore. You have no real genuine opinions, just plain hate and plastic toy fanboyism and a bunch of brand loyalists. Fuck you.
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HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Once again NONE of my daily challenges are tracking
Anyone on the fence do not buy this game until some bugs are squashed at best
Anyone on the fence do not buy this game until some bugs are squashed at best
CherryFalls
Banned
Can we start calling it the microsoft curse at this point?
STARSBarry
Gold Member
Fixed it for you.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Because it has in fact had multiple good entries since the xbox 360 days from both Treyarch and Infinity Ward.
MirageMew2
Member
The game fucking sucks and everything good about it (MWZ and MW2 maps) should should just be sold separately
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This is my biggest problem with all of this. Activision isn't shocked and Microsoft won't care. Because either way, it'll make big buck! Maybe if COD scores this low 2 or 3 times in a row will it finally matter.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The power of the cloud son
King Dazzar
Member
Laugh it up for now. But that ship of excuse sails pretty damn soon!! Then it'll be Bond's Booty ready for spanking!Absolutely unacceptable for Phil Spencer to release this garbage game to the market, thanks Microsoft for nothing!
Cert.in.Death
Member
Meanwhile, GTA VI will have a budget of 2 billion. They could have made 25 of those games for the same as it cost them to own a studio where all the power players will hightail it out of there at the first opportunity.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
My friend bought it. I said I heard it wasn't great and was borderline DLC, before it unlocked and (I assume) he could get a refund on the preorder. He said "yeah but what are you going to do?" Like buying COD was unavoidable and just had to be done.
How similar that is for other COD buyers, no idea. But I guess once they have you, they have you.
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S0ULZB0URNE
Member
So your telling me I shouldn't redeem this code that came with my Slim?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
No, you should PM it to me just to be safe.
//DEVIL//
Member
you know whats sad ? its the only COD that I really enjoyed since black ops cold war.
nothing against MW1 and 2. I own them like I own every cod game. but man, the maps sucked. this one even though most are old maps. they are really fun. the gun play it self is fun.
Since when these stupid reviewers do a single player review for a game that is considered a GaaS game in the first place ? there were few COD games that didn't even have a single player in the first place.
This is just a sad excuse by some bitter fans to put it down now that its owned by MS to be honest.
nothing against MW1 and 2. I own them like I own every cod game. but man, the maps sucked. this one even though most are old maps. they are really fun. the gun play it self is fun.
Since when these stupid reviewers do a single player review for a game that is considered a GaaS game in the first place ? there were few COD games that didn't even have a single player in the first place.
This is just a sad excuse by some bitter fans to put it down now that its owned by MS to be honest.
GreatnessRD
Member
Oh look... another Sledgehammer Games failure.
coffinbirth
Member
Who buys CoD @ full price just to play the campaign? I mean...seriously, what are you even doing?
This is the best the MP has been in YEARS.
This is the best the MP has been in YEARS.