I guess that's the general consensus, but for me everything worked more "in-tune'' if you will, like a well-oiled MW2 but with much more online options available. MW3 was incredibly popular, I don't think Xbox-Live has had more traffic at one time than when MW3 released and it still has a huge fanbase. I can see why you'd say that they're trying to be like battlefield with Ghosts but I'd say that they're trying something new with environment changes instead of desctructable environments. I don't think it worked out too well because like you said, the maps are too big.

If IW and Treyarch took a couple years off and built a fresh new game, MW1 style, or created CoD: Online to compensate for the 2 years between CoD games then revenue would still flourish. But we know this would never happen but its too bad I guess.

Your definitely right. And I absolutely think QS should be hindered substantially (lowered accuracy for the first second of ADS) or just taken out completely. That's another thing, how are these problems supposed to be fixed if the games are coming out every year. Also the devs would be alienating the fanbase that lives for QS and the likes. There's a couple fragile decisions that comes with making a game and making money at the same time, you have to put content in the game that people will be drawn to. Unfortunately QS is one of them.

QS is a joke, a big one. and it honestly pushed me away from CoD. really, the only reason i play CoD is because of the split screen multiplayer, i play with my brothers and cousins online because they just play CoD and Fifa, and honestly, playing an FPS split screen online is awesome. but i used to spend hours and hours on MW2 but i dont touch CoD when i play by my self anymore. they need to take it out because its a serious quality issue. it basically fucks the games balance. when you have sniper rifles besting assult and SMG in close range easily, you have a huge problem that needs to be fixed. try going head to head in close range with sniper vs an assult rifles or SMG in battlefield or Killzone, your fucked, and thats how it should be. 

i swear, in MW3 while playing domination, i would see a whole team of snipers just running around the bomb QS the shit out of people. its just doesnt make any fucking sense. 

this marks the downfall of the series for me

the MP component of the game is nothing like the past games b/c of map size and design the fast pace addictive gameplay is gone the cool aerial killstreaks are also gone

where is spec ops? and survival lol

when people yrs from now say what happened to COD they should know that it was the devs who killed it by stripping gamemodes and designing maps that make you feel your running a marathon and not b/c the gameplay got stale

I love the map design and the refocusing of the gameplay to gun versus gun.

But as good as those are, the shitty shitty spawns and terrible latency ruin it. I thought IW said all platforms have dedicated servers? Their PS3 servers must be garbage.

I want a reboot of Call of Duty 4 with better graphics. They'd probably f it up by adding sh@t, though.

I'm really enjoying Ghosts on Wii U, but I never touch the multiplayer, I'm a single player guy.

I decided to pass on this game. I played every single modern call of duty game,but I just needed a break from the series. I'll probably get the next one though.

Well yeah Ghost sucks, the good part of Infinity Ward left to Respawn.

     CoD  Ghosts is a mediocre game in an already mediocre franchise.. The last CoD that was worth a damn was  World at War. MW2 is a disgrace, BO1 is OK, MW3 is awful, BO2 is mediocre and now we have this mediocrity.