User blog comment:Crazy sam10/Call of Duty: World War II boycott/@comment-5670680-20170426215447

Second try, just to show a counter standpoint.

Making a campaign costs a lot of time, lot of effort and a lot of money. It's clear what they are going for, they want to make the cast of characters more memorable, otherwise they wouldn't have taken time to reveal them and their voice actors during the reveal. For that, you need time and pacing to actually pull that off. You can't do that if you focus on multiple theatres. Writers aren't machines, they can't pull out infinite interesting scenarios. With more theatres, that would mean they would spread their ideas thin. Battlefield 1 did really have some memorable characters for reference.

Also, as a Dutch person and therefor being so little represented in WW2 media besides Market Garden and Anne Frank, I don't find that bothering at all. Just a personal thing, don't mind it.

Even though it might get boring, if you think about it, what the Americans did is truly memorable. They went as young as 18 to fight on a different continent in a war that wasn't really theirs. It wasn't their homeland that was occupied by the germans, that had to be freed at all costs. That's a different light everybody seems to forget about. Nowadays I don't think you would cosnider giving your life to fight North Korea in South Korea. Unrealistic scenario, but one that emulates the situation a bit.

So yeah, there's a reason to be upset with this setup. But in the end there's a call for a boycott of a game that people might've put all their effort in into making one, single, solid, good story, something that is criticized everytime (even though somehow the campaign of the old CoD is always superior to the new CoD's campaign), I find that extremely depressing and it shows the toxicity of the fanbase. I don't like the games lately, but that doesn't mean I try to keep an open mind.

If we all could stop whining complaining about everything everytime and change opinions by the day and instead give good constructive criticism that's also realistic towards possibilities, would be nice. In the end this is a piece of entertainment, not a documentary, not a memorial. I can't even grasp that a game that is build upon murdering others is suddenly unacceptable and a disgrace for not showing other theatres of war.