Microsoft and Sony sign deal to keep Activision’s Call of Duty on PlayStation::Microsoft and Sony have signed an agreement to keep Activision’s best-selling Call of Duty series available on PlayStation, after the conclusion of the deal.
Not too surprised tbh.
But what will happen to the console market in 10 years? Does it shift to a subscription model and you choose games via your TV and everything is streamed?
But I’m glad CoD will still be around - at least some constant I can rely on haha
Likely the same thing that has happened to every other industry.
- Someone comes out with a disruptive low cost subscription model, consumers like it because it’s so low cost and anything that isn’t on it they can still buy.
- People buy less, content producers have to move to the same subscription model to survive.
- The low cost of the subscription model can’t pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry, creatives can’t find backing to create content anymore, creative struggle to get paid between there being less money and corporate greed snatching what is left
- Quality drops, output drops, no one is happy.
And yet the notion of taking a step back and dusting off the old system is actively rebelled against by consumers because they’d rather have convenient shit than quality if it means having to pay for it.
Then we just play all of our roms via emulation.
I’m sitting here wondering why the fuck anyone plays CoD to begin with.
It’s a relatively consistent and fun arcade shooter. We don’t need to bring the gatekeeping that you see on other platforms. Let people like what they like.
Ever release is broken and they care less and less the more money that they get. That’s my problem. Not that I don’t have nostalgia or don’t genuinely still enjoy the games
For a casual player , it doesn’t matter. It’s usually just cosmetics that are paid although apparently there’s a pay to win skin in DMZ? Either way , the gameplay loop is fast , fun , and it scratches an itch. I had a lot of fun with mw remake , my only problem is my friends have moved on from fps so it’s not as fun to play alone. I do agree they treat their customers pretty badly and it’s a money grab , but the base game is still fun. You don’t need to spend money on cosmetics if you don’t want to , least in the regular multiplayer.
I think you are confused with the Battlefield games, which have been horribly broken at launch every single time since 1942. The CoD games are creatively bankrupt and plagued with micro transactions, but they are usually functional.
From most peoples perspective (not mine though), nobody can make an FPS shooter as good as a call of duty game. There are “people who play games” and there’s “gamers”.
People who play games are satisfied with the yearly release of a somewhat consistent quality FPS game, but gamers are aware of the (potential) better alternatives.
Call of Duty is still decent, if you don’t look too closely at it. Warzone and DMZ are enjoyable in small quantities. 6v6 is fine if you play 2-3 matches then turn it off.
