Alongside the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 today, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has published a story about the game's rushed development.
One bit of information, in particular, is the mention of the campaign's development cycle. Prior to the "harsh reviews", developers were "forced" to finish this mode for the new entry in "roughly" 16 months. This is supposedly the "shortest development time for a new Call of Duty game in years".
Jason Schreier: "Most Call of Duty games are developed in around three years. But Modern Warfare 3 was made in less than a year and a half, which helps explain the poor reviews. Employees worked nights and weekends to finish the game"
Schreier goes on to detail how the campaign was originally pitched as an expansion, but then got rebooted and transformed into a full-blown sequel. An Activision representative denied this, stating it was a "premium game" from the start. However, other "Call of Duty developers" were supposedly told it was going to be an expansion.
The Bloomberg report also mentions how some staff at Sledgehammer Games had to work in the evenings and on weekends to meet the tight deadline. Studio Head Aaron Halon shared a statement mentioning how the team is "incredibly proud of Modern Warfare III" and has delivered a "vision, which has been years in the making.
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[source bloomberg.com]
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I hope Microsoft doesn't allow this to happen again.
Honestly I'm surprised a 3 hour DLC actually took that long to make.
I’m confused how this happened. Dont they have 3 studios cycling through the games precisely to make sure every game gets at least 3 years dev cycles?
Wasn’t this year supposed to be Treyarch‘s turn?
It is not an excuse to hide behind it. Is it their fault? no. It is just frustrating to see this come out and then they wonder why ppl don't want to buy the game.
It was for 2 reasons. If the ABK deal went through it was a ‘worse’ one for Sony to promote. (However it has potential to damage the brand a little, as do all rushed releases)
Or if the deal didn’t go through they had a £70 release to bump up the accounts. ABK were covering themselves.
Other than maintaining CoD games that's already released, please put this franchise to the long rest it deserves, Microsoft.
Somehow i enjoyed it just enough to give it a 6/10. Now i did play a hour of the multiplayer just now and it’s really good. Loving the old maps. It’s far far from a great game, but it’s good. I’ll play the heck out of the multiplayer then never play it again once i hit my limit. Hope they get it right next year and we are looking at something really great. Get rid of cross gen. It’s time in 2024.
I wouldn't pay £70, but maybe £20 in next year's bargin bin
Shortest Dev Time? That's fair enough, but to charge full price is just damn right greedy.
In contrast, next year's COD should be a banger, since Treyarch had an extra year to work on their title. One can wish...
@Gabrielmpf Which of the three is the "best" Call of Duty developer, would you say? I heard that Infinity Ward back in the day.
Yes finally Microsoft getting it on with console deals and sales, I guess it’s never too late to get your act together.
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@Tharsman i think @PsBoxSwitchOwner is probably right. My guess is AB thought the deal would have been done far earlier than it was. That means they would have paid for development and Microsoft would have received the revenue. Once it started to look like the deal wasn't going to go smoothly they decided to go all in since all the preorder sales before the closing of the deal would go to AB.
i bet the a.i. could do it in 3 months with better npcs and dialog
Yeah, Infinity Ward's original Modern Warfare games were among the best CODs, but more recently I really liked Treyarch's Cold War, and their Black Ops series, except 4, were also among my favorites. I guess it depends on who you're asking, but right now I'd pick Treyarch
They most really wanted to have gotten out of that deal with Sony.
Seems like it would have been much better off as an expansion. But their mentality was clearly 'money > reputation.'
I mean it's pretty blatantly obvious it was dlc seen as the maps are the original mw2 maps ..pretty obvious that would have been dlc for mw2
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I have avoided call of duty for many years now but I have come to realise that the best call of duty games come out when another big competing game comes out like GTA, in 2008/2009 we got GTAIV/CODWAW/CODMW2, then in 2012/2013 we got BO2/GTAV, 2018/2019, RDR2/BO4/MW19.
With them now doing this low level product to possibly save man power for something possibly better and with it being kind of half way through a console life cycle (which is another reason for better quality games like cod), it might be the best time to buy a Call of Duty game but I ain't falling for the trap.
Xbox should sue bobby for inflating the value and selling rushed products
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