Poll: How would you react to the Call Of Duty fanchise being cancelled suddenly?

[Fidelias]

Well, I'd be somewhat happy, and a little sad.

On the one hand, the new Call of Duty games are great to play when you have a headache, or just don't want to do a lot of thinking. (This isn't a stab at CoD gamers, I play the games too.) It's also a nice game you can pop in and play for 30 minutes and then get back to work.

On the other hand, canceling the series might put an end to all this "realistic" shooter crap that try to focus on "realistic" battles where you play as random soldier #423 watching the actual main characters do all the cool stuff.

Seriously; Medal of Honor, Halo Reach, Modern Warfare 3; You don't play as the main character, you WATCH THE MAIN CHARACTERS KICK ASS! It bores the hell out of me...

 

[Zeckt]

I would show a complete lack of emotion and total indifference and probably rub my nose or something.

 

[Lunar Templar]

be glad its gone and hope the void it leaves is filled with something I'd actually want to play

 

[johnnnny guitar]

You know what I actually have defended COD but if it dies at least some fucking innovation might happen with shooters instead of everyone saying "We want the call of duty audience"

 

[Wintermoot]

the newer once where to short anyway nothing of value was lost.

 

[Ice Car]

I like how just about half of the poll options are the same.

"Oh well" is the closest to what I would feel out of the available options. I continue to play COD games avidly but I wouldn't mind if it were cancelled at any point. In fact, I want it to be cancelled so I don't have to shell out $60 every year to buy the new game since everyone will be moving on to the next game, like most of my friends.

 

[Manji187]

I'd be curious as to the reason, but I wouldn't lose a night of sleep over it. I mean, I don't care that it exists, why would I suddenly start caring when it no longer exists?

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

1) Say "Yay".

2) Observe internet for Rage.

3) Laugh at Rage.

4) Go on with with life.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Wonder what the fuck happened to Bobby Kotick, and go and try to find out who kidnapped him.

So I could end him myself Err uh... yeah.

I wouldn't really care. I've got Black Ops for domination, CoD4 for nostalgia, and if I'm feeling like playing Search and Destroy I've got Modern Warfare 2.

Battlefield became my main multiplayer game, so I'm pretty set.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

You know what I actually have defended COD but if it dies at least some fucking innovation might happen with shooters instead of everyone saying "We want the call of duty audience"

I have the feeling that if it dies, some studios going to just clone the game and make a bundle off of it.

 

[Call me Baz]

I also do not care, but I really feel like it needs to come out with a new game every once in a while (zing!)

Seriously though, if they took a break on the yearly release scheme I'd be appreciative. It seems like it would encourage more game releases balanced more evenly across the year rather than "Oh man we have to release between these times so we don't lose sales purely from CoD"

 

[TheFederation]

i actually think COD is kinda sexist, can anyone name a single female character in the entire franchise?

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

I wouldn't care, though i'd be slightly concerned about where the CoD fanboys'll go after.

 

[distortedreality]

As long as the CoD players stay away from CSGO I won't care.

 

[EvilMaggot]

i would think it would benefit the gaming industry because so many FPS'ers are trying to be CoD... we need some new innovative games that can take it further and past CoD

 

[YingDerpington]

What have you done... You've just removed the most effective method of birth control in the first world... I hope you're going to be happy with all the millions of teens and young adults that will be pregnant the week after. Nothing will stop the onslaught of childbirths now... (Pretty much that)

 

[Random Fella]

I'd say about time
Since WAW they haven't made a good, nor a different game
It's about time they stopped, but they have no reason to, so they won't

 

[somonels]

None of the above. Modern Military Shooters are already on the decline. The problem was never that they were shit - though they were

I think almost [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-2] every [http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlefield-bad-company-2] reviewer [http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare] in the industry would like to say something about that.

Unless you want to rationalize it by saying they're biased/paid off/just stupid. That's cool too.

I don't really base my opinions on any solid evidence, nor do I follow things I don't care about. What I AM seeing is a lot of smaller / midsize developers giving up on copying the WW2/MMS shooters and actually making progress with the genre.
As for me calling them shit... it's a personal preference, I find the genre to be based on unappealing mechanics and, well, if there is a 'Music'critic, go check Justin Bieber, popularity is... just that.

There's a difference between "X is shit" and "I don't like X". Modern military shooters obviously (a/we)ren't shit if they (a/we)re universally praised.

So is Justin Bieber, but we still give him shit.

 

[DustyDrB]

I picked "don't care" since I don't play the games, but that's not truly what my reaction would be. There would definitely be some intrigue, both for the fan reaction and why they'd cancel a money-maker like that.

 

[not_you]

I think Call of Duty has become one of those franchises that has outstayed it's welcome...

I mean, think of what happened with the Guitar Hero craze....
Everyone wanted a piece of it to begin with, but now that there have been SOOO MANY iterations of what is essentially the SAME THING... People just got tired of it...

I mean, sure, the games are fun to play every now-and-then... But at the moment, I don't think I could take another "insane" COD midnight release here...

OT: If you couldn't tell, I'd be slightly happy, but at the same time, worried that something worse would become "most played game EVARRR"