Poll: Do you think CoD will ever die?

[Maximum Bert]

Yup everything does eventually I actually think COD is on the decline now anyway I dont know anywhere near as many people who play it as I used to.

It will be interesting to see how the franchise fares in the next gen a lot of people who played COD were for want of a better word casual gamers they would only play COD and Fifa and maybe one or two other games and I dont think many will bother picking up the next generation of consoles at least for a while.

It will still sell well for quite a while but eventually it will be replaced.

 

[Hero of Lime]

It won't be on the radar in a few years, it will still be around for sure, but it won't draw as much people to the game as it does now. I can see Ghosts being the beginning of the end for Call of Duty's undisputed hold on the online fps arena. No one seems interested, not even Activision is promoting it as much as the past games.

Unlike Guitar Hero which flat out died once people were sick of it, COD will probably sell just enough to get by, I'm sure Activision will start focusing more on something else in the near future.

 

[RJ 17]

I won't vote in the ridiculously biased poll

Just out of curiosity, what makes the poll ridiculously biased? If the game is going down, it's not going to be a big, sudden drop, it'll happen like WoW's gradual demise in which it just keeps losing more and more players until they finally say "We're done". If it's not going down, then obviously it'd be retaining it's popularity and I'd suspect the release of a new console generation will their already substantial playerbase even more excited to see what can be done.

In the end, I really don't care as you voiced your opinion: basically agreeing with the "no" option, just using your own words to rephrase it.

 

[gunningyoudown]

Black ops 2 made the greatest strive sense Call of Duty 4 in terms of game play. But sadly unless they do more to change the formula it wont get far. Personally they need to pull back a little. We don't need nukes every five minutes. And killing a character in first person was great in Modern warfare but almost every game followed they had more and more of those scenes and instead of it being a heart breaking emotional moment it became a "oh look another character im playing as is dying, who am I playing as again?"

So in short sadly I think it will. I don't play it that often but when I do I have a great time. I know it has a fairly large fan base and it has brought a lot of people into this gen of gaming.

 

[OldKingClancy]

I don't think it'll die but I think it'll have a grand reinvention of itself within the next five years. I like the COD games (although I stick to single player only) because they're fun but they are essentially the same game with just the coatings separating them. While they seem to be riding on the coat-tails of 'dude-bros' they need to evolve soon or die.

 

[bjj hero]

There is a lot of hate here. Why would people come out and say they want a game to flop. Lots of people enjoy it and plenty of people would lose their job if it bombed. If you dont like it then dont play it. It wont affect you.

If mario can churn out similar side scrollers for decades, streetfighter can still be relevant, fifa and madden still go strong i can see no reason why cod cant either. I feel it peaked at cod4 but its polished and tight as shooters go, everyone can pick it up and feel comfortable and you get a steady stream of rewards as you play. Theres no reason it cant keep going on strong.

 

[Nihilm]

Everything has a beginning and an end and just like everything else it will eventually ceace to exist, if not soon then when humanity is no more, or when the universe ends.

EDIT: Oh the poll it self is about the next 5 years, then I am going to go and say, no. Also misleading title, but atleast the question wasn't as stupid as I first thought.

 

[aguspal]

Its eventually going to die like every other game... yes.


That begin said, hopefully it can last as long as it can. Personally, I think the series is pretty simple minded, yes, but why is that a bad thing? Its fun to play, and solid at what it does... no reason for it to die just yet.

 

[stroopwafel]

I think the massive success of COD is not so much the quality of the game itself but rather the social aspect of the game. Like others have said the game is easy to get into, quickly 'rewarding' and people buy it almost solely for the multiplayer. The game becomes a means for mostly pre-pubescent teens to spend time with eachother foaming at their mouths with their virtual guns feeling like a badass while their balls most likely haven't even dropped yet. It is this 'need' that COD fulfills, so much so that if the franchise would drop the multiplayer sales would probably plummet to 1% of what it is now. WoW is a similair beast. The strength of this game is not its quality(it wouldn't survive as a single-player game) but rather the monotonous busywork of the game serving as a means for socially anxious shut-ins to find eachother.

These 'games' thrive on their social aspect of which without they wouldn't even exist. They are more about the need to be validated and as such are more akin to something like Failbook rather than the unique experience of a videogame. They are separate markets hence why so many(most?) COD or WoW-players only play that game. They are simply not interested in anything other than the social aspect of their game of choice. These games sell so much simply b/c people know they have the biggest community, are the most popular and 'everyone' they know probably plays it. (insert 'people are sheep' comment here).

So in short as long as people need to feel validated we will have COD or something like COD. And yes, most likely made by Activision. And that's alright, if that's what people are happy with. The only downside to this is that COD's sales figures have such a negative impact on the industry in general.

 

[immortalfrieza]

There is a lot of hate here. Why would people come out and say they want a game to flop. Lots of people enjoy it and plenty of people would lose their job if it bombed. If you dont like it then dont play it. It wont affect you.

That's the problem, it DOES affect everyone. Due to COD's success, every video game developer out there is trying to emulate COD's formula in an attempt to grab it's audience, and as a result otherwise great games are being turned into bland brown shooters. The reason why COD dying out would be good for the industry is that developers would STOP DOING THAT! COD is ruining the quality of countless games throughout the industry just by existing, Mario, Madden, Fifa, Street Fighter, and other games that have been the same over and over with every release haven't done this, and that's why they get a pass. It doesn't hurt that each of them actually deviate from their formulas once in a while either.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

Eh, nothing lasts forever. Just ask the Romans. Or Blizzard.

It's not going to die any time soon though. I'd say it's got at least another five years of, at the very least, even sales.

It will be a slow sputtering downturn though, not a sudden crash.

Yeah, the gun culture combined with Activision's marketing will make it hard for the franchise to die. It will die at some point but only when two things happen: when budgets get so large that the current amount of people buying it isn't enough and when marketing gets too expensive to bring in the new people needed to make even on the budget

 

[Something Amyss]

Everything has its time, and everything dies.

Everybody knows everybody dies. But not every day. And for Call of Duty, not within the next five years.

Now, I'm not 100% certain of that. I do think that CoD will eventually go down. Even the 'Murrica! Fuck Yeah! Shooty shooty crowd will get bored eventually. Things could change in five years. Five years ago, I doubt many people were predicting that THQ would DIAF.

I think a lot of the votes here are just wishful thinking, though.

 

[Something Amyss]

That's the problem, it DOES affect everyone. Due to COD's success, every video game developer out there is trying to emulate COD's formula in an attempt to grab it's audience, and as a result otherwise great games are being turned into bland brown shooters. The reason why COD dying out would be good for the industry is that developers would STOP DOING THAT! COD is ruining the quality of countless games throughout the industry just by existing, Mario, Madden, Fifa, Street Fighter, and other games that have been the same over and over with every release haven't done this, and that's why they get a pass. It doesn't hurt that each of them actually deviate from their formulas once in a while either.

And if you remove the patch of skin with the rash, your problem is solved.

What's that? A new rash popped up? But how?

You're talking about treating the symptoms to cure the underlying cause. While they're following CoD, the problem is they're following something, and that's been an issue since the beginning of gaming. Pong Clones, Donkey Kong Clones, Super Mario Clones, Twin Hitler Clones, etc. etc etc etc. The industry is always looking for something to follow. If CoD dies, it will look for something else. This is not a good thing, nor is it healthy. It means that there is an endemic problem underlying the brown shooter patches on the surface.

I don't know if you weren't around in the 80s and 90s, or maybe you just lack perspective, but in the 80s and into the 90s platformers took over. Everything was trying to copy Mario and Sonic. In a smaller market, this was kind of a big deal.

Then, in the late 90s there was a glut of RPGs. Final Fantasy clones, a lot of them. There was some good stuff, but it strangled the market.

Madden and even Street Fighter don't compare. They are their own niches. Yes, Madden is in a niche. It's just a particularly large one. Even when fighting games were at their biggest, they weren't a threat like Mario or FF clones. They really shouldn't get a pass. Especially since Squeenix has become such a horrible offender in the "me too" mindset, trying to make its games appeal to everybody and their mama by stripping out things like gameplay and setting expectations at more than 5 million units. That's not even a Call of Duty move; gaming has tried to make itself significantly more cinematic since the 90s.

I mean, hey. I can't stop anyone from hating CoD, but at least be realistic in your expectations. CoD is a symptom, not a cause.

 

[lunavixen]

I highly doubt it will die unfortunately, when it finally does die, it will be a slow death, not a sudden crash. I don't like the series for numerous reasons and have only ever owned two (which I no longer do), but played others.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

All men must die.

Everything must cease.

This too shall pass.

It's finite.

CoD will end.

In the end, I'm not worried about it. I won't play them because I don't have to and I don't want to.

 

[Joccaren]

Next five years?
No. It'll keep going. This upcoming one will sell well, the next one will, and the one after that. From there it might begin to decline. Might. But that'll mean it still has another 2 games in it minimum, which leaves the 5 years there, + more as it slowly falls.
I'd say give it 8-10 years. A new fad will have likely taken hold by then, and the new gaming generation will likely get into that, and thus CoD will diminish.

 

[Galen Marek]

I doubt it will "die". It willy always have a fan base and will most likely remain profitable for a long time unless someone high up screws the budget up (more likely the case, but, in that scenario the game didn't "die" in the way the question asks but more it was killed due to imcompetence).

I'd say it has plenty of games left before we see it fall away. Probably more then AC. 5 years won't be enough time I wouldn't think. But hey, anything is possible.

 

[Seracen]

It'll always exist to some extent, just as Madden will.

However, how relevant it'll be is another argument entirely. There will always be those die hard fans. However, as a triple-A mass appeal title, I very much doubt it'll reign supreme forever.

At some point, it'll become a backburner title. Eventually, after restructuring, I am certain that it'll return.

I can remember when CoD was all WWII combat. Ultimately, the franchise will evolve, ebb and flow, as the market demands.

 

[Caligulove]

Eventually, yes, of course.

Eventually it'll be replaced. One day enough people are going to want to play something different, and then the series will be retired... only to be rebooted at a later date. I'm thinking at one point, rebooting the WWII shooter will once again be fresh and seen as retro or innovative once again.