It may be a while until Call of Duty fans get another installment that takes place during the second great war. Activision has shared an annual report that includes the company’s thoughts on why Call of Duty: Vanguard didn’t meet sales expectations, and one of the primary reasons listed is the game’s World War II setting: the location “didn’t resonate” with gamers, Activision believes. The publisher goes on to blame a “lack of innovation” in Sledgehammer’s effort before reassuring investors that this year’s Call of Duty game (i.e., Modern Warfare 2) from Infinity Ward won’t suffer from the same issues.
While Call of Duty remains one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time, our 2021 premium release didn’t meet our expectations, we believe primarily due to our own execution. The game’s World War II setting didn’t resonate with some of our community and we didn’t deliver as much innovation in the premium game as we would have liked. We are certainly addressing both of these issues with the 2022 launch. Development on the 2022 premium and Warzone experiences is being led by Activision’s renowned Infinity Ward studio. We are working on the most ambitious plan in Call of Duty history, with over 3,000 people now working on the franchise and a return to the Modern Warfare setting that delivered our most successful Call of Duty title ever.
Source: Activision
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Join Discussion →Couldn't be the multiplayer being bad or the microtransactions or the fact that its an iteration on the same formula they always used could it? Nah...must be the WWII setting. That has to be it.
Sure and I'm sure BF2042 failed due to its futuristic setting. So what is the right setting then?
This is the most insulting statement ever if you think about it.
Uhmmm... sure, because trying to rewrite history, based on historical factual data, never fails, eh?! ?
Not learning the right lesson seem to be the norm for too many; people and institutions. That was something my dad used to yell about... Some of it did sink in, certainty way more than the norm nowadays.
I think it's their pure lack of putting much effort into the game that was it's downfall. One of my biggest regrets on a game purchase.
The last one I played was WWII iirc next one did not have single player anymore so I bailed on the series.
Already surprising I got that one after the crappy infinite warfare.
I rather enjoyed Infinite Warfare's single player campaign. The Modern Warfare soft reboot was also great in that regard.
Infinite Warfare Single player was great, and I don't care about multiplayer anyway.
Oh, that's good to know, I was wondering about that. Over the years I gave up on series like this and BF having single-player campaigns at all, let alone decent ones. Those were always my main focus back when I did play CoD games. I been away from the series for so long now, I got no idea how many there have been, or what they are called, or who among the multiple dev studios did which games. You got me curious though, I might check out that MW soft reboot.
Yeah that's how it was for me, multiplayer I rarely if ever touched. What little I remember of that campaign I recall being good too. Been so long since I last played it.
Hey, I liked Infinite Warfare (sp campaign anyway)