Both gamers and critics are disappointed in Black Ops 7.

The campaign is messy surreal and pointless. It may find the audience later, same as it happened with Black Ops 3 and Infinite Warfare.

But the story is online only, which means, the campaign will only live while servers are up. The campaign doesn't even allow you to pause it, since it's technically a Warzone-like instance running, so escape just shows the menu, while the bots are still fighting.

And the multiplayer is just a digested mix of all previous games and has no personality. They are making it all look and feel like a reference to the series and not the new game in the series.

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Arc Raiders nailed it by releasing a new map and other updates the same day. And got higher online in both players and viewers.

Final nail in the coffin: Call of Duty uses AI in so many places and in such wrong ways that they have Ghibli ripoff UI elements!

Imagine a real genuine player picking this as a profile banner... My expectations were low but holy fuck...

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According to Dispatch creators, they were working on the new stealth action for Ubisoft and quit because the company shifted into xDefiant.

Yes, the company didn't want a good solo Splinter Cell, they wanted Call of Duty. And now we've also seen what happened to the original Call of Duty.

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Good guy Valve

All modern CoD games are under the same counter on Steam. According to it, the series only peaked at 87K CCU yesterday, about 40-45K over the average.

Battlefield 6 alone still holds over 270K CCU there, Arc Raiders is at 420K, Delta Force is over 200K and Escape From Duckov was at 115K CCU yesterday.

Call of Duty just lost to EFT parody with rubber ducks...

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That's also valid for any PC by the way...

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Sure, buddy, it was intended

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Finally, GabeCube
(From @Giakkons in our chat)

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And 99% of the time Scotland looks like this: endless fields, surrounded by brown houses, and the clouds are absolutely gray (despite my phone is trying to color them up).

If you're not a fan of clouds, that's definitely not a place for you.

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Top kek

Black Ops 6 has been removing their best maps and putting them on Black Ops 7 to make players stop playing it and move to BO7.

Tarkov is also not doing great on Steam... thanks to their launcher that simply doesn't work for like half of the people.

Even so, 20K CCU for a relatively niche game is OK. But not absolutely fine, since Duckov (a parody, dammit) has six times more.

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Never do this if you're an indie games developer

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Summary

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I'ma Rockstar, kids
(Just passing by)

Dead Internet Theory
(Not theory)

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Depth Map Fading

He definitely reached a higher level of understanding LinkedIn than any of us ever will...

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