Why does Call of Duty keep selling so well?
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This. It's just like how WoW got popular. It got lucky by having one of the best formulas out there.Geekosaurus said:
I plain just don't like MW3. To hectic and the spawns are atrocious.
From my observations of these "Call of Duty gamers" it appears to be a desire to fit in with the rest of the tribe.
Of the four test subjects this study used, not a single one claimed to want to purchase the newest Call of Duty because they enjoyed it, but rather because their friends would purchase it.
Attempts to pull these deluded individuals away from Call of Duty and expose them to vastly superior games all met with identical results. The subjects admitted the superiority of the replacement games, but ultimately return to Call of Duty because they miss the social interaction.
Therefore, I can conclude from my studies that Call of Duty is basically facebook with guns.
Of the four test subjects this study used, not a single one claimed to want to purchase the newest Call of Duty because they enjoyed it, but rather because their friends would purchase it.
Attempts to pull these deluded individuals away from Call of Duty and expose them to vastly superior games all met with identical results. The subjects admitted the superiority of the replacement games, but ultimately return to Call of Duty because they miss the social interaction.
Therefore, I can conclude from my studies that Call of Duty is basically facebook with guns.
I really don't think this is true. This is one of those random rumors that got spread like wildfire because they thought it sounded insulting enough.bussinroundz said:
Everybody I know plays CoD, and they all play different games. I highly doubt that there is a large majority of people out there that only own Call of Duty games.
It's easy to get into. That's just about it.
All 3 points are valid and contributing factors. I kept buying the games because they were fun and my friends played them. Now I'm kind of sick of them. Battlefield 3 is fresh and exciting, it feels like the bastard love child of BC2 and BF2 and I love it, it's taken the good bits of both and made a thoroughly enjoyable game that feels different to it's predecessors. MW3 probably feels like the inbred child of MW2 and MW1 and I could probably play either and get a very similar experience.
I'll probably pick it up after Skyrim when it inevitably goes on sale somewhere. I'll go xbox this time though, don't want to support the bastardised PC version and I need a game I can play with my xBox friends.
I'll probably pick it up after Skyrim when it inevitably goes on sale somewhere. I'll go xbox this time though, don't want to support the bastardised PC version and I need a game I can play with my xBox friends.
Its far from fun, its ridiculous. People are either zerging around with dual weapons, hoping round corners and everything, quickscoping like spastics or camping in a corner behind explosives. Slap Kick on a gun and they all feel the fucking same.
I loved MW1 and 2. MW3 is an atrocious boring abomination, the guns are boring, the kill streaks are boring, the maps are boring.Its a fucking joke and I don't understand how it keeps on selling. BF3 blows it out of the water.
Yet MW10 will still sell millions to the drooling idiots that wouldn't know a good game if it bunny hopped round the corner and quickscoped them in the leg ending in a OHK.
Out of the tons of AAA titles released this winter MW3 is by far the worst. Yet ironically also the best selling.
Kill Confirmed is a good mode though.
I loved MW1 and 2. MW3 is an atrocious boring abomination, the guns are boring, the kill streaks are boring, the maps are boring.Its a fucking joke and I don't understand how it keeps on selling. BF3 blows it out of the water.
Yet MW10 will still sell millions to the drooling idiots that wouldn't know a good game if it bunny hopped round the corner and quickscoped them in the leg ending in a OHK.
Out of the tons of AAA titles released this winter MW3 is by far the worst. Yet ironically also the best selling.
Kill Confirmed is a good mode though.
Personally, i don't find "it's fun" to be adequate justification for the question posed. If the question was "why do you play it?" or "why do you keep playing it years after its release", then there is no better answer than "it's fun". But to influence so many people to buy a new copy every year, you need something more than that. I think it's a combination of the factors the OP mentioned (except for the quality one. While they are no doubt well made games, I don't find the quality high enough to warrant the sales figures), the fact that people enjoy the previous iterations, and a bit of poor money management to buy a similar game for ~$100 every year.Geekosaurus said:
Just to clarify a little, I'm not making a personal attack on Geekosaurus, he/she just happened to be the person who voiced this opinion in this thread, so I'm using his/her post as a launchpad.
It's a safe formula executed extremely well. It added a lot of innovation with CoD:MW, and then tweaked that design to perfection. Add to this an excellent but short single player, a few extras, and some well executed PR combined with a concept that resonates with people.
Because every casual gamer knows that all their casual friends are gonna buy it so he does too. CoD is also very accessible, pretty much anyone can pick and play. With games like Battlefield and Counterstrike, there's a learning curve involved.
I somewhat disagree with everyone who says they keep buying it because it is fun. For some, sure. But for some, they only buy it because their friends keep doing it. It's the same reason many people keep playing WoW, because of the social aspect, not the game. Obviously, it's not like theyre miserable playing it, but it's more for social.
1) It's got brand recognition so it's familiar to a bunch of people who are too scared to play anything else.
2) It has a LARGE fanbase so multiplayer games are as easy to find as a white flake in a hospital.
3) To the moronic masses who have never actually seen a soldier or a military base in real life, 'Call of Duty' is a juvenile war fantasy. It's not a matter of realism; it's a matter of being a soldier of war with a gun and being incredibly- I use the following word insincerely due to it conflicting with my actual definition of the word- badass and killing everyone. For any of you, even I will pray for your health if you actually hold such views in front of your superior officer, and I will pray doubly so if you voice those views.
The fact that the game is set in the real world doesn't matter; 'Call of Duty' fans are (I imagine) also fond of 'Mass Effect' because the gameplay is similar; hide behind walls (like a soldier), kill anything that pops out to look at you (like a soldier), proceed (like a soldier). Games like 'Serious Sam' and 'Painkiller' are in no way the same as you can jump very high, run while gunning and carry seven billion weapons and not look down the sights. Also, you're likely to get savaged by a bunch of extremely strong enemies at once (this has doomed me several times in Sam Stone's first adventure). 'Call of Duty' players don't want to be superhumans; they want to be soldiers.
I'd also like to note that YOU are not necessarily one of these people; I'm just speaking generally.
2) It has a LARGE fanbase so multiplayer games are as easy to find as a white flake in a hospital.
3) To the moronic masses who have never actually seen a soldier or a military base in real life, 'Call of Duty' is a juvenile war fantasy. It's not a matter of realism; it's a matter of being a soldier of war with a gun and being incredibly- I use the following word insincerely due to it conflicting with my actual definition of the word- badass and killing everyone. For any of you, even I will pray for your health if you actually hold such views in front of your superior officer, and I will pray doubly so if you voice those views.
The fact that the game is set in the real world doesn't matter; 'Call of Duty' fans are (I imagine) also fond of 'Mass Effect' because the gameplay is similar; hide behind walls (like a soldier), kill anything that pops out to look at you (like a soldier), proceed (like a soldier). Games like 'Serious Sam' and 'Painkiller' are in no way the same as you can jump very high, run while gunning and carry seven billion weapons and not look down the sights. Also, you're likely to get savaged by a bunch of extremely strong enemies at once (this has doomed me several times in Sam Stone's first adventure). 'Call of Duty' players don't want to be superhumans; they want to be soldiers.
I'd also like to note that YOU are not necessarily one of these people; I'm just speaking generally.