Tiago Rodrigues
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At this point i truly believe MS is cursed.
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Call of Duty 2025 does not have an assigned main developer. It was meant to be SHG, but they refused
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At this point i truly believe MS is cursed.
Negotiator101
Member
Surely Microsoft can throw some developers at it to get it done? And how does a developer refuse exactly? Are they independent or something?
diffusionx
Gold Member
The issue here is that COD 2025's release date is only about 18 months from now, and these are $250 million productions that require a staff of hundreds of people to put it together. Don't know about the internal politics that led to them saying no and MS accepting that if it is true.
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Sushi_Combo
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Ok. So what will they be working on then?
YOU PC BRO?!
Member
That’s ok. I’m sure they will make their money back on character skins. Maybe they could collab with Dragonball or Family Guy just like Fortnite. Can you imagine how much fun it would be to get blasted by a kamahameha whilst attempting to capture a point?
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Microsoft has fucked over MWIII and MWZ with the recent firings and shuffling, so I totally get SHG not being eager to have their feet to the fire again to rush something out.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
The only games Sledgehammer should ever get as main work are games like MWIII which is basically a remaster of an old game where the foundation of the maps are already done for them.
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This company sucks and anyone who supports them is clueless. They are going to buy Call of Duty and still fail miserably.
Already reports of them making all COD campaigns moving forward open world. Now they will infect Activision with the sickness that is their poor studio management
Already reports of them making all COD campaigns moving forward open world. Now they will infect Activision with the sickness that is their poor studio management
Heisenberg007
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The Pleasure
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Fixed
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Mr Moose
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MWIII 2023 is not MWIII though, it's just MWII.5.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
No main developer??
Robb
Gold Member
Good on Sledgehammer for making a solid case and good on MS for actually listening I guess.
But this sounds like a hot mess. The latest CoD already seemed like a hot mess and nothing more than a poorly disguised DLC pack.. Looking forward to reading how people miss the days when we got CoD games like the latest one instead of whatever we’ll get going forward.
But this sounds like a hot mess. The latest CoD already seemed like a hot mess and nothing more than a poorly disguised DLC pack.. Looking forward to reading how people miss the days when we got CoD games like the latest one instead of whatever we’ll get going forward.
Nostalgic Nightmare
Member
I honestly cannot fathom why people still keep lining up to get shit on with this series, let it go already. No private servers, no map voting, a bunch of pathetic skins and costumes and recycled bullshit. It’s a treadmill of trash.
icerock
Member
They are the worst custodians for an IP like CoD. Which offers campaign, multiplayer, battle-royale, zombies, dmz, ranked mode with 6 seasons in every new CoD cycle releasing every 60 days.
Kotick for all his issues was able to get his studios to meet the deadlines without issues, year-on-year. And, even he said the existing amount of CoD devs are NOT enough. What do MS do? Lay-off 30% of CoD devs across all studios. You can write this shit, they are so incompetent, it is actually hilarious.
I expect CoD 2025 to miss the deadline, or be a half-assed effort which lacks several parts which have become staple to the franchise.
Kotick for all his issues was able to get his studios to meet the deadlines without issues, year-on-year. And, even he said the existing amount of CoD devs are NOT enough. What do MS do? Lay-off 30% of CoD devs across all studios. You can write this shit, they are so incompetent, it is actually hilarious.
I expect CoD 2025 to miss the deadline, or be a half-assed effort which lacks several parts which have become staple to the franchise.
KaiserBecks
Member
Maybe Activision just shouldn't make another main title and just support Black Ops for an additional year? You know, like they originally wanted with MW2. Sledgehammer is a shit tier studio though so the less from them the better.
Kurotri
Member
Yeah, what the fuck? Can someone with more knowledge explain?
Killjoy-NL
Member
How do you maintain coherent vision and quality for a game without a main developer?
midnightAI
Member
I'm pretty sure it's more them putting the case forward that they couldn't get the game done in that timeframe rather than a flat out refusal to do the work.
If it is the latter however.... Yeeeesh
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RoadHazard
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Who's SHG? I'm on a train and the tweet isn't loading.
TransTrender
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Rocco Schiavone
Member
Just remaster the Modern Warfare 3 mp maps. Give It another shitty single player with 3 hours playtime and you are done. The next multi million seller because the COD community doesn't give a fuck.
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//DEVIL//
Member
Bring Bobby back. Fire everyone at MS head quarters.
Devs refused .... Lol.
Either
- none of the people at MS knows how to work and manage anything ( Phill playing Diablo 4 while supposed to be working is pretty much fucking telling. )
- this guy is just tweeting random shit out of his ass.
Wtf at devs refusing to take a job they are hired for. What kind of a stupid ass comment is that ?
Devs refused .... Lol.
Either
- none of the people at MS knows how to work and manage anything ( Phill playing Diablo 4 while supposed to be working is pretty much fucking telling. )
- this guy is just tweeting random shit out of his ass.
Wtf at devs refusing to take a job they are hired for. What kind of a stupid ass comment is that ?
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Killjoy-NL
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I expected MS to fuck up COD, but not within a year. Lol
DaciaJC
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HeisenbergFX4
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ChorizoPicozo
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in 2-4 year the Xbox gaming division could have imploded....let that sink in.
Mr Moose
Member
Treyarch CoD comes after IW, instead they were like "We need more time!" and skipped a year.Treyarch:
Killjoy-NL
Member
3 years max.
HerjansEagleFeeder
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Voodoo Vince: Modern Sorcery
Negotiator101
Member
As seemingly a number of clowns have escaped from the circus and wound up here to once again shit on Microsoft, as they can't work out on their own that Microsoft only took ownership of Activision Blizzard in October of last year so this was a pre Microsoft fuck up, ok clowns? 
Daneel Elijah
Gold Member
This is the full tweet:
Insider Gaming is reliable, or at least has been in the past. Making a game is not easy. I admit that how it was said is a little too funny, and make the studio look like a kid who don't want to eat his dinner. But time will tell. In the meantime Xbox will have another fire to put out.
Mr Moose
Member
You take that back! My shoe size is only a 9 UK.As seemingly a number of clowns have escaped from the circus and wound up here to once again shit on Microsoft, as they can't work out on their own that Microsoft only took ownership of Activision Blizzard in October of last year so this was a pre Microsoft fuck up, ok clowns?
Negotiator101
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To whom?
