User blog comment:Damac1214/Sledgehammer Interested in Female Leads for Future Call of Duty Titles, Have Already Started Pre-Production for Call of Duty: 2017/@comment-1187559-20150207102600/@comment-25261281-20150207173919

"They weren't liked purely because they weren't the original characters. People don't like change."

Pretty sure people's opinion on the Five crew and the CotD celebrities was different.