Rumor: CoD IIII Singleplayer axed for Battle Royale

[EricHiggin]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

EricHiggin said:

If this is true, I would have to guess it's because of BFV and it's rumor being true as well. Battle Royale makes way way more sense in Battlefield, mostly due to it's massive multiplayer maps. If Activision got wind that EA was having Dice add this mode into BFV, I'd have to assume with it's popularity, there's no way Activision would allow them to have an entire year to themselves over CODBOIIII.

This would also be a justifiable reason to drop the campaign for COD, or sell it as DLC later. Battlefield campaigns have never been all that great overall, so dropping it shouldn't be that big of a deal with another mode to replace it, so that's another reason Activision can use to justify dropping it from COD. Not like COD's campaigns have been that great recently either. If BFV has a campaign as well though, it would look pretty bad on COD for dropping it completely, unless the price matches the content.

I would rather say that with both PUBG and Fortnite, the Battle Royale genre really exploded in popularity and both EA and Activision Blizzard wanted to cash in on that undependently. And the reason why the Singleplayer would be dropped is simply because they wouldn't have had the ressources to do both in time for the release. Besides, cutting the Singleplayer really cuts down the production budget too, with all the celebrity voice-actors not being needed anymore, so it's doubly beneficial for EA

Well beneficial financially is a no brainer if they still charge full price at launch, which is most likely, or charge for it later as DLC. While the BOIIII launch date is earlier than normal by a month, I have a really hard time believing that after 3 years of development, that a month is going to mean dropping the campaign completely. Now if your aiming to add battle royale mode, then sure, dropping the campaign makes more sense, but only if both franchises do it. If BFV has a campaign, even a short one, and BOIIII doesn't, then dropping the campaign was clearly a horribly late decision or a money grab. If it's because of a late decision, I would bet it has to do more with BFV having a battle royale mode than it does PUBG and Fortnite.