I don't think I've ever been so worried for the future of Call of Duty
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Welcome to the video. Everybody. Chaos here Jimmy here Jimmy or chaos here. This is going to be a very
relaxed
Gameplay commentary that's right. We're going to rewind and we are going to go back to
2015 when Call of Duty gameplay
Commentaries. We're all the rage actually could go farther back
2011-2012 anyway today
We are going to discuss why the horizon is very very dark
There's a storm brewing
That not everybody sees when it comes to call of duty and this is not meant to be a negative video
this is a concerned video because I'm seeing things playing out in my head and
It's warranting a lot of concern when it comes when it comes from being a Call of Duty fan of Call of Duty creator
I've just I mean Call of Duty has been a huge part of my life for a long long time
Almost a decade just on the content creation side
But even longer just as a fan of the franchise the gameplay are watching this for my boy Zack
He's playing on shoot house kill house. Whatever that new map is that's hit modern warfare and modern warfare
Has calmed down
We are kind of in a valley right now peaks and valleys people when it comes to Call of Duty news
people being upset people being happy Modern Warfare launched
there was a ton of stuff that was wrong with at the
725 the audio cues the claymores they are working on fixes and it seems to have calmed down
On the forefront Twitter's not as crazy right now. There's more people showing off funny cool clips. We are in a valley so
Everybody's a little complacent right now and then we're gonna ramp it up
We're gonna ramp it up in the next week or two when it comes to season 1 and the battle pass because that's something brand-new
For the when it comes to the seasons and people are gonna have their opinion. They're either gonna love it. They're gonna hate it
They're gonna kind of like it. They're gonna be on the fence. That's the cod community. That's what happens. But at this moment
Things are quiet on the front when it comes to mana warfare. So we're gonna shift our direction
We are going to shift our focus to the horizon
specifically next year in the year after and here's why I'm
A-gettin concerned I get concerned on anything. I mean the channel is predicated on call of duty. It's it's 50/50
It's video game top tens and it's Call of Duty for the most part. There's other stuff sprinkled in there
But I mean, that's that's a big part of it
So when I see stuff looming on the horizon when it comes to a positive or negative effect with the franchise that is directly correlated
And attached to my brand I get a little concerned now, you guys know all the rumors
Well, if you don't let me catch you up the rumors are that
Treyarch has taken control. I don't even know if that's a rumor that may be confirmed. I think that actually is confirmed
I'll have to confirm the confirmation but I think that's confirmed that Treyarch has taken over the lead role for cod
2020 which means Treyarch will have put out a Call of Duty game
within a two-year cycle
which reverts back to the old cycle of Call of Duty with Treyarch and Infinity Ward were
Splitting the duties every year one of them was putting something out that we went to a three studio
rotation when sledgehammer games gave us advanced warfare now sledgehammer games was involved in multiple other Call of Duty's including modern warfare 3
But they got their first real title with advanced warfare and then they got Call of Duty World War 2
But the rumor is they got Elstad in this one and Activision wasn't happy for whatever reason in development and that Treyarch has taken over
now if that is all true and everything is is happening that way that puts Treyarch in a very very
stressful situation
You just got done with black ops 4. I think it's safe to say it
Probably wasn't the the best outing for for a Call of Duty title
Especially a Treyarch title, especially especially a black ops title
right
You you've kind of set this bar really high with black ops 1 black ops 2 black ops 3 even
Black ops 4 I don't think it hit the bar for a lot of people to community
So now you have been tasked with turning around and spitting out another Call of Duty which you were probably not prepared for at all
Next year, which is less than a year away
it is literally a
blink of the eye
And it's going to be here now. The rumors are
We are going to be getting one of two things and here's where the concerns really really start for me
Okay, I think in the next couple months
Modern warfare will be a super solid game
I think when I say super solid, I think that they will have made more people happy than not happy
That's what I mean. You can never make everybody happy
That's what is what is I said at the beginning at the core?
Modern warfare is a super solid game ton of positives with it
They just have to get everything else higher now. Now you turn to the next one
The two rumors are one we can be getting black ops 5 which I've said I've stated publicly and publicly in videos
Well publicly
I don't know why I say that I say that to try to sound cool like I'm some bigwig when I'm not
obviously my videos are public the point is I've stated that black ops 5 would be a
disastrous mistake
Ok, there has to come a point where you put a franchise
To bed it is at that point with the black ops franchise on
The predication you're doing black ops 5 1 was great 2 was arguably the best Call of Duty ever made by a lot of people
3 was super popular
I mean it they they had that supported and that the lifespan of black ops 3 was probably longer than any other call of duty
Black ops 4 we went downhill
For multiple reasons not just the game the different mechanics, but the brutal monetization in the game. Ok, so
what if we got a black ops 5 well there is a thing called franchise fatigue and
It's on two levels here. Call of Duty has franchise fatigue. It's been out forever you get a Call of Duty every year
It's pretty much the same thing
Right, but then there's also the sub franchise fatigue when it comes to we've gotten for black ops titles
Not many people are going to want to go on the merry-go-round
For a fifth I don't see that working out at all
I see that being a monumental mistake if they were to give us a black ops five now
I
Get it to a degree if you're tasked with making a game that you weren't planning on making and your time window has been cut
by a third
I mean you have to take what you have and what worries me is
there to get a game out at launch and
It would have to be black ops 5 they would have to take assets from all the black ops things and then you're not really
Getting a new polished Call of Duty your getting a rework to revamp to recycle the black ops game the other
Rumor is this one?
I don't mind as much then we are going to get a reboot of the entire black ops series now
I don't want to be a hypocrite
I said the blackout series has franchise fatigue and I feel that way
But if you have the you have two evils you have to take the lesser of two
Doing a reboot of the black ops series like Infinity Ward just it with modern warfare
Would be the one I would pick you
Started over you make it a little more dark and visceral we tell the stories all again in a different way
There's a ton of fan favorite their fandom in there. You've got
Woods, you've got Mason you've got Rezanov people could attach to that if it was done
Right, mana warfare. The campaign was phenomenal phenomenal the new one, okay
So if I had to pick one of those two, I would pick the black ops reboot
The reimagined black ops franchise in the same universe
You guys know same thing. We got with mana warfare. But here's the problem with that. Okay?
Modern warfare and Infinity Ward did it after years. There was a huge gap from the modern warfare trilogy. Yes
We got modern warfare remastered a couple years ago
But there was a huge gap from the original trilogy and the nostalgia factor built up and up and up
There's not quite as big a gap there for the black ops
the black ops franchise now black ops one was a long time ago black ops 2
So those two were a while back so there is a little gap
but you get black ops 3 black ops 4 it's just there's not as much of a time frame in between which worries me but
That's not the big concern
here's my big concern if sledgehammer games is no longer a prime development studio and it is no longer a
rotation of
Three if we are down to two Treyarch and infinity war which blows my mind because I follow sledgehammer on Twitter and I see them
in their new studio
And they're they're active and they're doing all kinds of profiles of their of their people and every that I don't I don't know
What's going on there? But if we're down to two if we're going back to
2012 and it's infinity awarded Treyarch and they have to spit out a Call of Duty every other year
That does not bode
Well for anybody games are massive now
They take hundreds of people to make a triple a title and you see the Triple A titles they come out they're not finished
It's not just Call of Duty. It's every triple a title
It's the whole ship it now fix it later
And I don't know if that's time constraints if they just don't have time to get it done. The point is this isn't?
2012 where it doesn't take as much to make a video game
This is 2019 going into 20 where it takes
small communities cities
To make video games and now you're going to task and ask these two studios
To rotate and each one be spinning one out every other year that is not going to be good as a product
For us the fan and it's not good for the development studios. There's no way that is a good work environment
It can't be that has to be absolutely horrible now
I'm not stating Activision is saying that those two studios are now in a two-man rotation or two woman
Rotation or two man and woman rotation, but if that is the truth if that is what is happening
that's scary that's super scary as a fan of the franchise because you've just
You're not giving it you're not giving the time to grow to to make these videos to be
To be dynamic and and come up with new ideas
You're just literally punching a clock and saying hey, we have a quota to fill we have to get it out. So
That's that's why I'm concerned three reasons one black ops five
two black ops remastered lesser of a concern but still a concern in three going down to two studios and
Having to keep up with making a Call of Duty every year
Do you think we'll ever get to the point?
Where they stop what they're doing and they go a battlefield direction
We get a Call of Duty every year or two or every two years or maybe even three would you guys be okay with that?
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