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Activision: Not worried players will play MW: Remastered more than Infinite Warfare
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InsaneTiger
Member
Because people will pay $80 instead of $60. They aren't worried and they know people will pay out the nose for it. Demand is high, might as well capitalize on demand and make some money.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
Of course they are not, they know that a lot people will buy the Legacy edition of Infinite Warfare just to play Modern Warfare remastered
Napalm_Frank
Member
People think they want MW: Remastered but they don't.
This is true as well. Their recent map design is so terrible and convoluted and everything is so that you can almost always be shot from 3+ directions, +2 more now from above and below with the wallrunning and jet pack jumping...etc. Every room has at least 3 different exits and every area is designed to have multiple paths.
I miss the realistic map designs where you'd have choke points only at one or two locations on the map, generally in the middle or an area where everyone would meet anyway. I miss rooms and hallways with just 1 or 2 entrances/exits/windows. Or wide open areas like Derail where it'd be sniper haven. You can't do that anymore, you can't just sit with your sniper rifle on one part of the map and have sight to half of it.
Liquidsnake
Banned
Remember the versatility of Firing Range, or Summitt? Why did they have to speed it up, and dumb the maps down.
Yea I can't think of what happened. After Black Ops 1 and Modern Warfare 3, it's like they just didn't know how to design maps anymore. Maybe with new technology and more RAM and what not, they have more resources to add objects and textures and clutter everywhere, so they just want to fill the map with details and objects. It's disappointing.
Is there any need to be like this?
Anyway I don't think I'll buy the game until the remaster is released separately. If it's not then I won't buy.
Preach brother, so on point.
Even if the gameplay and new equipment additions were great in post Mw2 cods, the maps are so shit it essentially nullifies any "improvements".
Maps are probably the most important thing in a competitive multiplayer shooter.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Psst... this kind of behavior doesn't get you far here.
The only thing we know is that Modern Warfare Remastered will be provided via a download code included with Infinite Warfare. Imagining a worst-case scenario here, it's entirely possible that MWR will be DLC for IW and only accessible from within IW. My fever dream is that I buy the $80 bundle, and in order to play MWR I have to complete IW's campaign first to "unlock" the remaster.
MW was great, but after BFBC I never looked back.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Olengie
Member
Wish it wasn't a Code and was a Disc instead. </3
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Because $$$ DLC. You betcha.
Silent Hill
Banned
Wow. Id edit that post and say sorry fast unless you want the banhammer...
Mad Season
Banned
Is he worried that more people will be playing bf5 though ?
In an ideal world.
Vital Tundra
Member
Well yeah, you already got their money.
nope. i definitely want it
I'm not quite following your question. No work as in Raven won't do any work on DLC maps and they will be ported as is into MWR?
The DLC maps will absolutely be updated for MWR. It would be incredibly jarring to go from a remastered map to an un-remastered map after a completed round
Not sure how, considering CoD was never about vehicles and maps that are way too big.
I don't think anyone is downplaying the added workload to remaster CoD4. It seems the general consensus is Activision is playing the smart business move in bundling the two games together and not selling the remaster separately, knowing full well that fans of CoD4 will purchase the bundle if they really want to play the game. Many of those who will reluctantly fork over the $80 just to play CoD4 simply wish there was a separate option if they had no interest in Infinite Warfare.
He's not saying he believes Infinite Warfare will be played more than Modern Warfare. He's saying it doesn't matter to them if it happens, because either way they made a bunch of money. Activision admits it's very well possible COD4 will be played more
Problem is it's tied behind the special edition, but I think once it becomes standalone, this will be the case
They explained in the interview yesterday and today that you're able to call in the "Jackal", your space jet, during missions, fly up into orbit and fight and then fly back to the surface. So while there maybe missions dedicated to it, you have the choice to enter it in missions.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1214175&highlight=
Hopefully it makes it into MP. That would be awesome.
CamHostage
Member
Eh, that's a GAF echo-chamber way of thinking. It may feel like the remake is the game because the vocal voices are saying, "fuck that game, I want the remake", but the new CoD will be the new CoD, and for all of its detractions and stale elements and publisher tomdickery, Infinity Ward and Treyarch still generally make a quality game that has earned its sales (albeit also deserves its slide) and will attract fans.
I'm not sure how far down the sci-fi rabbit hole CoD will go before it loses all of its original WWII/MW fans, (as somebody who only occasionally plays CoD, it's not a setting I enjoy but then again all the awesome techniques added to the gameplay thanks to sci-fi gadgetry makes me more likely to play than the war games,) but IW still has lots and lots of consumers paying attention to its work this year.
Salty Rice
Member
No you did this to sell more copies since sales numbers are going down.
Moon_frogger
Member
Hmmmm except they could charge more and make money from both if they were separate products......unless they are afraid nobody cares about the new cod
Blops 3 made $500 million in its first 3 days.
Are they?
According to Activision, Black Ops 3 sold significantly better than Ghosts and Advanced Warfare.
Basically proving their point though. Treyarch has the fans where they want them. Infinity ward has had their name tarnished with their last two releases. It's safe to assume people would be hesitant in purchasing an infinity ward product again, thus adding the remaster into the mix to make sure sales meet expectations. If this remaster was never announced, this would have been the most negative cod reveal in recent memory.
Yes. At 80 $ bundled with the next Cod.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
then why not skip a year and release just a remastered package this year?
Breakfast at Noon
Member
Digital Code though.
TsunamiOfSwagger
Member
How often have activision said something similar, about this is the only way to get this special item only on sale with the expensive version, then sold it separately at a later date?
Ohhhh they're devious!
Shadax the wizard
Member
Imagine this: a seperate lobby inside IW multiplayer. The horror!
Because this will make Infinite Warfare sell alot, if they sell it separately most people would probably jusy buy Mw and not even bothered with IW.
Not for Black Ops 3 though.