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CoD4 to be knocked down by CoD5? |
Discussions arose on various gaming portals after a website has released some new pictures concerning Activision newest game: Call of Duty 5. But what is it actually like, and why would they be releasing the game so shortly after CoD4 has actually settled down?
Activision actually did a great job by releasing CoD4 quite late after CoD2 - this meant that gamers were all prepared to dare the next step and join the likes of other players to move on to CoD4. CoD2 somehow bored people, or atleast didn't attract enough refreshing aspects both competitive and on public servers, which gave them the idea to quickly move to CoD4. It seemed like a hard step for everyone as the game occured to be full of bugs in the beginning era of CoD4 - but later on the game settled down and wasn't critisized so roughly by its scene members anymore.
After the scene had experienced this tough search for a ruleset that would suit the likings of every particular player, many cups found their ways to the top and regained their old positions to being a leading cup, as they were in CoD2. But what is Activision actually doing by nearly completely ruining the scene we all love so much at this moment, by having announced that CoD5 is most likely to be released roughly somewhere in the first semester of 2009?
The answer is rather simple: They don't give a damn shit. The marketshare for average players enjoying online gameplay just because of the public servers and the SP missions is a lot higher than the marketshare for competitive gamers, just like we are. Activision has never cared about a proper ruleset anyway, and why would they actually care about it as they have been nearly ensured that they would get millions on releasing CoD5?
You might think that LAN's and other top clans with their fancy sponsors who are well known around the entire world, would give the game more exposure, so why wouldn't Activision focus on the ruleset?! Well the answer is again simple - the marketshare of these average gamers is as well in terms of exposure WAY higher as Activision is most likely to make stunning profits just by releasing the games so shortly after each other.
People are now completely devestated by the actions of Activision, so am I actually, and they have a proper reason to be so. But, on our good hopes, CoD5 might announce the new era which could be compared to the era we had in CoD:UO, a select group of gamers which move to the new game and create a really nice atmosphere which is fun to game in. Whether multigaming clans would stick to either CoD4 or CoD5 then remains a question, as CoD4 has experienced the biggest online and offline prizepurse one of the CoD series had ever experienced. But will Activision actually be supported by the players anyway?
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quiet normal 
