User blog comment:Damac1214/Call of Duty 2014 Being Developed by Sledgehammer Games, Call of Duty Moving to Three Year Development Cycle/@comment-6343006-20140206235853

Well this just makes me feel wierd. I still believe that it is Treyarch that are the ones who would take this series to where it needs to go, but now I must wait another year to see what they've got tucked up their sleeve. But for now, I am to expect that this... Sledgehammer is going to be the one to deliver the first next-gen Call of Duty.

The best thing they can do, is to make a Call of Duty that does not attempt to mimic either Treyarch or... the other one. Don't try to emulate Zombies, we've already got that so it would just be an emulation of an emulation If you really want to have your own Zombies, then make the entire game about Zombies or whatever, because that's not been done before. And don't go trying to do the same old compaigns with just a little variety here and there. Oh, maybe this time the enemy will be an alliance of Belgium and the Netherlands trying to craft a weapon capable of violently shifting the American tectonic plates or some malarkey like that: same X, different Y.

But, if that news about a Modern Warfare 4 is true, and that's the direction this series is going to take, then I hope it sells well below Ghost's figures and I hope Titanfall and Destiny sell so phenomenally well that they smash Call of Duty into the ground and make it go the way of Medal of Honor.

Really, what irks me the most is that this means there will be a Call of Duty every year for at least another ten years. I would rather have one game that is unbelieveably good, like proper good, that defies all expectations, surpasses the success of the first Modern Warfare and gets universal acclaim, wins a ton of awards, smashes sale records all that... and have that be the end of the series. Have it end on a high note, or at the very least space the releases a bit. I'd rather have one truely phenomenal Call of Duty than a long line of smaller ones that only improve bit by bit.

But I doubt that very much, for the true face of Call of Duty has been revealed, and it is a face that wants to earn more and more money, for it has truely became the very definition of a cash-cow franchise; and while supporters of Call of Duty 11 will be defending it against whatever criticisms it recieves, they may change their tune when Call of Duty 20 comes rolling by.

Mmmmm... suppose I better give Titanfall a shot, then...