You ever get a feeling the world doesn't think the same way you do about games?

[Jay520]

Slimebeast said:

richardhutnik said:

Slimebeast said:

I despise Call of Duty. It is destroying gaming. And I despise other huge dumbed down games who steal sales from sophisticated games. Games that will never even be created because the masses are tricked into dumb entertainment.

What makes you think if Call of Duty vanished that it would result in games you prefer getting greater exposure?  If Call of Duty went away, Halo and other PS3 exclusive FPS titles would be played.

Well you said it yourself, if Call of Duty was smaller people would instead play Halo and Killzone. And to some extent they would play other shooters that already exist (Crysis, Rage, Dead Space, Bioshock, Wolfenstein) and shooters that would have been made because the market would be more profitable (Jedi Knight 4, STALKER 2, Prey 2, Doom 4, Quake 5, Unreal), and even games in other genres (if the COD guy wasnt so damn hooked to COD he would play more Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed and Dante's Inferno online).

Call of Duty is very addictive, people spend hundreds of hours on its online, and it comes out every freaking year and sells 25 million copies. Of course that is shrinking the space for other games.

Actually, Call of Duty helps a lot of those games sell. Call of Duty is one of the IPs that encourages people to buy HD consoles to begin with. Without CoD, the HD console install base would be lower and there would likely be less software sold, on average, for other games.