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[Embearded]

If what he said is true then suck it up.
It was a joke, move on. I hope he doesn't apologize on X.

They make a mindless time waster shooter for people to have fun, it's not the fucking cancer cure, drama queens.

 

[cireza]

Yeah I saw some of the tweets, extremely pathetic reactions.

How big of a retard are you anyway when you bring in player retention as a metric for a single player game, lol.

Isn't this exactly what people here have been doing against Starfield ? That's a lot of retards.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

2 steps on how to deal with jokes that hurt your feelings:

1 - shrug

2 - move on with life

 

[Panajev2001a]

Isn't this exactly what people here have been doing against Starfield ? That's a lot of retards.

Still butthurt? Seriously though, I thought it was living rent free… ah it is not rent free in yours, but pays MS Rewards Points maybe ?

 

[cireza]

Still butthurt? Seriously though, I thought it was living rent free… ah it is not rent free in yours, but pays MS Rewards Points maybe ?

I am simply stating what I saw happening here, nothing more. No emotional investment as you suggest, sorry to disappoint.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Hahaha the metrics? Fuck off, God of War has been received better critically across almost all of its games than all Call of Duty games and they release a new fucking game ever year, you would think they'd be the best games ever at this point but here we are with the worst one yet.

 

[mckmas8808]

It was strange to poke fun at a major 'industry'player during a show that's basically just a big fat PR piece for that industry.

Somehow this year's CoD campaign took me about 8-9 hours, so I don't really get those jibes about how short it is. Seems much the same as all the previous ones.

Strange? More like awesome. We need more of that.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Fuck me! Take the burn and come back with a hunger in your belly to deliver a mind blowing campaign in a couple of years.

I thought it was a great joke. We need some real zingers at these controlled events.

GG Kratos!

 

[Codeblew]

The CoD director should have walked up on stage and Will Smith'd him.

"Keep my game's name out of your fucking mouth!"

Umm, you watched the video in OP with that joke too?

 

[Panajev2001a]

I am simply stating what I saw happening here, nothing more. No emotional investment as you suggest, sorry to disappoint.

Sure buddy, you can evangelise without emotional investment true. See you in the next thread where you bring Starfield out of nowhere . I also found engagement being the metric used to defend it more than attack it but .

 

[Reaseru]

So classy from the COD devs, that in order to attack the voice actor who thrown a shade on them, they choose to attack the work and games of their colleagues from a studio that has no contractual affiliation with said voice actor, to a point they even mention games that Judge didn't even worked. The dude doesn't work at SMS...only has a independent contract with them.

 

[sigrad]

I'm genuinely curious, other than CoD (on which I'd agree).

Spider-man 2s story is not 18 hours though, game play wise. It has over 5 hours of cinematics.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

So classy from the COD devs, that in order to attack the voice actor who thrown a shade on them, they choose to attack the work and games of their colleagues from a studio that has no contractual affiliation with said voice actor, to a point they even mention games that Judge didn't even worked. The dude doesn't work at SMS...only has a independent contract with them.

Yup
Absolutely pathetic behavior

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Its a joke. People in the US are so easily triggered.

 

[Panajev2001a]

It’s a joke. People in the US are so easily triggered.

… and totally not on a religious like intolerant crusade:

South Africa's Tyla sparks culture war over racial identity

The term "coloured" is a slur in the US, but for millions of South Africans it is part of their identity.

www.bbc.co.uk

It should be hilarious, but it is just sad…

 

[Hypereides]

“Associate art director of fellow Call of Duty studio Treyarch Nelson Plumey weight in too: "Imagine having short user engagement once your game is consumed. Can't relate," they said.”

Nelson Plumey stroking engagement in data over inventiveness, ingenuity and fun.... great times for the gaming industry. Modern AAA gemedev has really gone sideways.

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

Isn't this exactly what people here have been doing against Starfield ? That's a lot of retards.

More crying about xbox.

 

[Tommi84]

Teal'c is not taking any survivors it seems

 

[Yoboman]

Nelson Plumey stroking engagement in data over inventiveness, ingenuity and fun.... great times for the gaming industry. Modern AAA gemedev has really gone sideways.

It really is a peak into how disconnected Devs are from what gamers want

 

[FunkMiller]

Maybe don't put out utter shit, if you don't want to get dragged for putting out utter shit.

Gen Z victim mentality in full effect.

 

[Luipadre]

Chris

 

[GHG]

Jez on call of duty before Xbox acquired Activision Blizzard:






Jez after the acquisition:

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

Seems like the devs should be on board, as management is to blame. They were forced to make bad quality short DLC, and it was sold as a full release.

The joke can help them, but they have to embrace it. Probably should have followed up with a Bobby Kotick joke to tie it to management and someone who is on his way out to make it work.

 

[Bartski]

Jez on call of duty before Xbox acquired Activision Blizzard:






Jez after the acquisition:

The dude is a true icon of integrity. On that note, just a friendly reminder of his "best game ever" review of Cyberpunk2077 for windowscentral, published right before the release of 1.0 in Dec 2020.

Cyberpunk 2077 PC review: Joining industry legend as a contender for best game ever made

Cyberpunk 2077 is an experience without equal.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[Shut0wen]

dont disguise DLC as a full price game.

not a hard concept.

Tbf its not like sledgehammer games actually had a choice, cant blame them for being pissy, literally every dev in the world is a cuck that does forced overtime

 

[TheKratos]

The devs ARE a joke.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

They had a little over a year to push the game out the door. If anything what we got had no right being as polished as it was. I can understand being mad at being the butt of every joke in the industry after working your hands to the bone on an impossible task.

The blame for MW3 rests solely on the shoulders of Activision upper management.

 

[Edmund]

Jez on call of duty before Xbox acquired Activision Blizzard:






Jez after the acquisition:

I hope to one day find a girl who loves me as much as Jez loves Microsoft.

 

[Ribi]

So rather than deny the short ass campaign and defend it or say well it was good, they instead deflected. Lmao

 

[Cyberpunkd]

What was the joke?

 

[GHG]

What was the joke?

 

[Panajev2001a]

Jez on call of duty before Xbox acquired Activision Blizzard:






Jez after the acquisition:

He is an MS evangelist, keeps the propaganda he thinks they want and their fans want and will change as the wind changes.

 

[Aguero9320]

Take COD’s name out of your mouth etc.

Joke was funny. Bitebacks were acceptable. It’s the commentary around the exchange that is maddening. If they were offended, who cares? If they offend him in return, who cares? That’s their business.

There is a wider point though… anyone noticing that the fans of one and done games are increasingly desperate to deflect attention away from the possibility that how much/how long someone plays a game could, just possibly, be an important and valuable metric for success?

I don’t play COD so don’t have an informed opinion, but I believe it’s pretty fucking successful and keeps people “engaged” for a long, long time.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Win an award, act smug, then insult biggest game in world in moment of delusion.

COD devs are being way too professional.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

One of the biggest fakes in “gaming media”

 

[Kikorin]

When a joke is made by telling the absolute truth, you can just take it and do better next time.

 

[Krieger]

You'd think these clowns working at the Activison circus would appreciate a good joke.

 

[gaming_again]

This is the result of banning jokes in the workplace. I want the 1990s/2000s back. So badly. But with broadband.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

CoD devs rn

 

[Darkkahn]

Big Yikes.

 

[MikeM]

Imagine being called out with facts then being butthurt about it. Get back to making game-irrelevant skins to fund Bobby’s next yacht.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Ok, that’s pretty funny. The devs are salty losers .

 

[ComputerBlue]

I wonder how they take to constructive criticism then.

 

[Trilobit]

You never NEVER respond to a joke by being butthurt. That's like adulting 101. Especially if it's on something you've created and not even a personal insult.

I rarely call people snowflakes, but this was some flakey behaviour.

 

[Danknugz]

haven't even played a cod since the one before ghosts forget the name.

 

[DoomGyver]

Maybe we can get Ricky Gervais to break the ice for tga 24.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

haven't even played a cod since the one before ghosts forget the name.

Farts of the Patriots

 

[Filben]

Sometimes you simply deserve a joke and how you handle it is pretty telling about your character.

Laugh more. It's actually healthy and anger is only increasing your risk of a heart attack and vascular diseases. So relax and take that joke how jokes are supposed to be taken. A little less self-centred seriousness is actually great.

 

[Dick Jones]

I think the CoD developers had to push back on Judge as otherwise one of their family members would be sexually assaulted by Bobby Kotick....allegedly.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

I think the woketards being so tight assed in their campaign to lather the entire world in anointing oil has actually helped the pendulum swing. A milquetoast roasting like that in 2008 would have gotten muted chuckles and rolled eyes for how PG and smoothed it was. In the absolute zero white void they've created, in 2023, it's tantamount to throwing a bomb into a glass house. People have become so sheltered and insular that tame content is now edgy. It's so far under that it's over again.