Call Of Duty 2017 won’t be set in space
Activision has told investors that Infinite Warfare ‘didn’t resonate’ with fans and ‘wasn’t the success we planned’.
Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare was the best-selling game of 2016 in the US and the second best-selling (after FIFA 17) in the UK, but that doesn’t tell the story you might think.
Sales were down by a half on 2015’s Black Ops III and there was of course that whole furore with fans complaining about the far future setting in space, which made the game’s reveal trailer the most hated game video in YouTube history.
And as usual it’s not fan petitions that’s convinced a publisher to change their ways but sales, with Activision boss Eric Hirshberg admitting that Infinite Warfare ‘didn’t resonate’ with fans and that the series will be going ‘back to its roots’.
The big question is what exactly ‘back to its roots’ means, although the obvious guess is he’s being literal and means the Second World War. A setting the series hasn’t used since 2008’s World At War.
He could be speaking more generally though (he was only talking to investors) and just means that the game won’t use any of the near future tech and jump boosts of the last several games.
Which could potentially mean a modern day or other historical setting. Although whatever’s going on it will be Sledgehammer Games making this year’s COD.
According to Hirshberg they started working on it two years ago, straight after Advanced Warfare. So this isn’t quite the knee jerk reaction it seems.
In the meantime Activision will be releasing more DLC for the more popular Black Ops III. Although that game still has a futuristic setting, even if it’s not as far future as Infinite Warfare.
It may have seemed asking for trouble creating three futuristic games in a row but the common theory for why Activision stuck with it is that they needed to retain as much consistency as possible between the games’ multiplayer modes – which are now a big deal in terms of eSports.
So if this is going back to the Second World War then that means an even more radical shake-up than it first seems.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/10/call-of-duty-2017-going-back-to-its-roots-wont-be-set-in-space-6439354/#mv-b
Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare was the best-selling game of 2016 in the US and the second best-selling (after FIFA 17) in the UK, but that doesn’t tell the story you might think.
Sales were down by a half on 2015’s Black Ops III and there was of course that whole furore with fans complaining about the far future setting in space, which made the game’s reveal trailer the most hated game video in YouTube history.
And as usual it’s not fan petitions that’s convinced a publisher to change their ways but sales, with Activision boss Eric Hirshberg admitting that Infinite Warfare ‘didn’t resonate’ with fans and that the series will be going ‘back to its roots’.
The big question is what exactly ‘back to its roots’ means, although the obvious guess is he’s being literal and means the Second World War. A setting the series hasn’t used since 2008’s World At War.
He could be speaking more generally though (he was only talking to investors) and just means that the game won’t use any of the near future tech and jump boosts of the last several games.
Which could potentially mean a modern day or other historical setting. Although whatever’s going on it will be Sledgehammer Games making this year’s COD.
According to Hirshberg they started working on it two years ago, straight after Advanced Warfare. So this isn’t quite the knee jerk reaction it seems.
In the meantime Activision will be releasing more DLC for the more popular Black Ops III. Although that game still has a futuristic setting, even if it’s not as far future as Infinite Warfare.
It may have seemed asking for trouble creating three futuristic games in a row but the common theory for why Activision stuck with it is that they needed to retain as much consistency as possible between the games’ multiplayer modes – which are now a big deal in terms of eSports.
So if this is going back to the Second World War then that means an even more radical shake-up than it first seems.
Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/02/10/call-of-duty-2017-going-back-to-its-roots-wont-be-set-in-space-6439354/#mv-b
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