The Call of Duty franchise will be undergoing a stark shift it’s it’s yearly release schedule as there won’t be back to back annual releases of multiple Modern Warfare or Black Ops titles, the developers have confirmed in an official blog post recently. The “Call of Duty Team” which includes Treyarch, Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward and Raven Software, have acknowledged the criticism that the most recent entry in the franchise, Black Ops 7, has received and has promised to improve the overall experience in many ways:
“First off, thank you for all for the feedback we have received over the last few months. Call of Duty has enjoyed long-standing success because of all of you, a passionate community that demands excellence and deserves nothing less. We also know that for some of you, the Franchise has not met your expectations fully. To be very clear, we know what you expect and rest assured we will deliver, and overdeliver, on those expectations as we move forward.”
The devs also confirmed about the change in Call of Duty’s yearly release schedule:
“We will no longer do back-to-back releases of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games. The reasons are many, but the main one is to ensure we provide an absolutely unique experience each and every year.
We will drive innovation that is meaningful, not incremental. While we aren’t sharing those plans today, we look forward to doing so when the time is right.”
The developers have emphasized that the first person shooter franchise’s best days “are ahead of us” and the next era of the series will “deliver precisely on what you want along with some surprises that push the Franchise and the genre forward.”
The Call of Duty franchise, as a whole, has been criticized for years by both players and critics alike for iteration rather than innovation and the devs, as well as publisher Activision, didn’t really do much to address a lot of those complaints. But as this year’s Battlefield 6 has, in many ways, managed to surpass Black Ops 7 in several areas most notably in terms of total player count as well as User Rating on Metacritic, all of this has likely forced the publisher and the devs to want to change things around for the franchise.
The devs also announced that Black Ops 7’s Zombies Multiplayer mode will receive a free trial period plus Double XP weekend in next week while also promising “unprecedented season support” for the game.
