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Subject: How to Kill CoD

I can only please one person per day.

Today isn't your day.

Tomorrow isn't looking too good either.

So after trying to get a few rounds in against the Christmas meat, and I sat there thinking how utterly miserable I was playing this game, even against the fresh meat. After just watching the video of some of the new players playing, as well as some of the more "experienced" players; I think I know why - and knowing this, I know how one could kill CoD.

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How you ask? The answer is simple; make Call of Duty require skill to be good and enjoy at the multiplayer. Sure the game will receive critical praise. Pro players and gaming leagues will eat it up. Even on here we might like it. But the game will bomb in sales and the population will vanish because making CoD require skill would be going the exact opposite direction the series has been going since Modern Warfare 2.

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Since Modern Warfare 2, the series has been specifically designed to appeal to the "anti-pro" or the "anti-gamer"; you can see it every design decision and comparing it to what other older games/other series were designed around? Quick reaction and precision aiming? Doesn't matter when hipfiring from across the map works just as well if not better than trying to aim. Auto-aim and bullet magnetism greatly contribute to this. Reliability? Some of the worst netcode ever seen in a AAA game, combined with things that happen randomly and for no seemingly no reason as well as inconsistent damage models for weapons throw this out the window. Map control, flanking and tactics? Mostly meaningless thanks to crappy map design and near completely random and unpredictable spawns, including the fun of being spawned into active danger zones. Weapon balance? Pffft.

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All of these things are designed to appeal to people who bad at other games? Can't aim well? Doesn't matter. Run around like a headless chicken? Thats OK. Can't devise a way out of a paper bag? Don't worry - we got rid of the bag for you.

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Thats why I can't enjoy the game. I've spent 2 decades playing, training and practicing skills and talents for hard, skill-requiring games. I simply am incapable of playing badly anymore. And if they were to make a CoD that appealed to gamers like me, who want skill in their shooters, they'd alienate the people they've been striving to gain since MW2. I know this is a "Well, duh" thing for many of you, but finally seeing and realizing it today, it takes a load off of me as to why as I wasn't enjoying a game I should've been enjoying.

  • 12.27.2012 7:03 PM PDT

Kill it! Kill it with fire!

  • 12.27.2012 7:04 PM PDT

Per Audacia Ad Astra

Fight fire with fire; you're all doing it wrong.

  • 12.27.2012 7:04 PM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Life is a journey, if you spend all of it with your nose in your map, you may miss some of the best parts.

Stop making it cater to casuals.

Done.

  • 12.27.2012 7:04 PM PDT

Do you work for Treyarch / Infinity Ward? Are you planning on sending this to them? No?

  • 12.27.2012 7:04 PM PDT
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do you like muffins?

Or you could just play other games that appeal to you...

  • 12.27.2012 7:05 PM PDT

Da Husk.

Do eet!

  • 12.27.2012 7:07 PM PDT

... and another thing. If people enjoy the game, leave it alone. Just because non gamers are coming in and casually enjoying a simple game. Does not mean you have the right to take it from them.

  • 12.27.2012 7:07 PM PDT

How to kill CoD you ask? stop buying it!

  • 12.27.2012 7:11 PM PDT

I only bought the XBLA CoD Classic


Never played any others. Never will

  • 12.27.2012 7:12 PM PDT
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Hey.

Want to absolutely kill CoD? Make sure no one buys the game.
/problem

  • 12.27.2012 7:13 PM PDT

Rain, and Jazz.
Halo: Tactical

I'm either a fool or an inteligent man, depending on how sleepy or angry I am.

I originaly made an account on 07.27.2007 but I wanted to link my GT and made this account. Don't forget your passwords!

What annoys me the most is that games that DO try and copy CoD turn out to be absolute -bIam!-.

Anyways, OP is dead-on.

  • 12.27.2012 7:13 PM PDT

dat feeling when you plow a multi-ton covenant war machine.

>actually thought this was going to be a thread about processing fish.

  • 12.27.2012 7:13 PM PDT

Lt. Dan I brought you some ice cream. Lt. Dan.. ice creaaam!

Those are valid points. But I fail to see how you are going to "kill CoD"

  • 12.27.2012 7:28 PM PDT
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But what if I don't want to kill it? A lot of people would probably lose their jobs.

  • 12.27.2012 7:29 PM PDT

Donuts > all other food

How to kill COD: not play it.

Simple.

Why over-complicate it? To kill a game, all you gotta do is not play.

Which I won't be doing since I like COD.

[Edited on 12.27.2012 7:33 PM PST]

  • 12.27.2012 7:32 PM PDT

Lt. Dan I brought you some ice cream. Lt. Dan.. ice creaaam!


Posted by: Donut Funn
How to kill COD: not play it.

Simple.
What is your plan on making millions of people not buy the yearly release of a new CoD?

  • 12.27.2012 7:34 PM PDT

I can only please one person per day.

Today isn't your day.

Tomorrow isn't looking too good either.


Posted by: G0xx
Want to absolutely kill CoD? Make sure no one buys the game.
/problem


And how do you do that?

Make it so absolutely toxic to its targeted demographic they don't buy it or play it.

  • 12.27.2012 8:25 PM PDT