Chaos at Activision : COD MW3 made in 16 months. Crunch and night shifts.

[Gods&Monsters]

New ‘Call of Duty’ Draws Harsh Reviews After Rushed Development

Game is the first in the series after Microsoft’s big acquisition.

www.bloomberg.com

The latest entry in Activision Blizzard's popular Call of Duty video-game series was made in half the time of previous iterations, a fact that may be contributing to a spate of bad reviews, according to people familiar with the development process.

Critics have panned the game, the first big release since Microsoft Corp. closed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision last month, saying the game’s storyline feels rushed. Most Call of Duty games are developed in around three years, but the bulk of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, which comes out Friday, was made in less than a year and a half, said the people, who asked to not be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The abridged production schedule proved stressful for the development team, they said.

Statement from devs:


Good luck in your life Phil!

 

[Would_you_kindly]

New ‘Call of Duty’ Draws Harsh Reviews After Rushed Development

Game is the first in the series after Microsoft’s big acquisition.

www.bloomberg.com

Good luck in your life Phil!

If this & the previous cods don't get fixed & have warzone removed from them so they're separate games with acceptable file sizes it's on Phil

 

[Gamernyc78]

I call BS, this was suppose to be dlc and they turned around with greed and added a few things to sell as a full length game which is why it's hot garbage!!!

 

[Entropi]

Was it to get out of the Sony partnership sooner?

 

[nongkris]

Sadly this will still sell millions and top the charts until there is an alternative. If the horrific employee abuse scandal didn't kill the company then nothing will.

 

[Shmunter]

I call BS, this was suppose to be dlc and they turned around with greed and added a few things to sell as a full length game which is why it's hot garbage!!!

That’s the thing, this dude misses the mark

 

[8BiTw0LF]

I call BS, this was suppose to be dlc and they turned around with greed and added a few things to sell as a full length game which is why it's hot garbage!!!

From the article:

Seems like Activision doing Activision things..

 

[anonpuffs]

16 months is right after Microsoft announced they were acquiring ABK.

They must have come up with a plan to convert the entire CoD pipeline into a single continuous CoD with "expansions" like Destiny does, to keep gamepass fed.

 

[historia]

This is from Jason, I don't believe him

 

[MiyazakiLovesKojima]

Xbox Gamers have some serious Bad Karma coming their way.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Was it to get out of the Sony partnership sooner?

We'll never know officially but it was probably Phil making pressure behind the scenes to sabotage the marketing and bundles sales of Sony so they wouldn't sign a new contract.

Remember he only wanted to ship COD on Playstation for 3 more years and then make it exclusive.

Statement from the devs:

 

[Yobo]

I said this was clear and COD was meant to skip this year. MS made them rush out a game to ensure they are recouping their investment

The funny thing is this was probably meant to be a next year game. So MS have effectively shortened the next handful of COD games development time by a year

This is how you start a domino effect of trash

 

[anonpuffs]

We'll never know officially but it was probably Phil making pressure behind the scenes to sabotage the marketing and bundles sales of Sony so they wouldn't sign a new contract.

Remember he only wanted to ship COD on Playstation for 3 more years and then make it exclusive.

Statement from the devs:

nah doubt it, if they wanted to sabotage the marketing they would have just had abk skip this year

 

[MScarpa]

Games garbage, bla bla bla, see ya in 18 months.

 

[VillaiN]

And thats with majority of work force working on cod only. Xbox fanatics think they ll work on small ips like prototype, crash etc. Just lol.
They better hope MS doesnt run AB in the ground.

Its 2023 and theres still no alternative. FFS how hard s to make fps with solid controls, quick spawn, smaller maps, 60 fps.....at least something to start.

 

[Shmunter]

And thats with majority of work force working on cod only. Xbox fanatics think they ll work on small ips like prototype, crash etc. Just lol.
They better hope MS doesnt run AB in the ground.

Its 2023 and theres still no alternative. FFS how hard s to make fps with solid controls, quick spawn, smaller maps, 60 fps.....at least something to start.

There that Ubisoft one soon, but it’s too panderverse, not military. Big mistake, will stick to COD

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Does Sledgehammer games not realize this is much worse if they came up with a campaign this bad with actual years of development time?

 

[KiryuRealty]

Does Sledgehammer games not realize this is much worse if they came up with a campaign this bad with actual years of development time?

this is a situation where the difference is like having five tons of elephant dung dropped on your car with you in it vs 10 tons.

It is still tons of shit landing on your head.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Great work guys

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

But these were all old maps that Activision had spent time optimizing spawns etc. back in the day .... so did they redo the spawns? I don't get how "fan favorite maps" can be so easily ruined. IMO they have never been very good with spawn locations, as after a week or so, spawn camping is almost universallly rampant on every map.