| Slimebeast said: Like many others I really thought it was new IP. The COD hate is getting out of hand. So childish that this particular game is being hated when the audience is eating up so many other clichéd, tired, mass market games without complaints. |
It's not going anywhere, everyone loves to be the contrarian once something grows too popular (I've noticed a lot of people who "hate" blizzard, which I really don't see how that's possible haha).
That said, I'm one of those early people who played the heck out of CoD 2-4 when the multiplayer was some of the best available, so I have fond memories. It just got old in my opinion, and Battlefield (something I enjoyed on the PC for years prior) offered more... and then they released two poor titles in a row lol
The franchise hate is a bit silly, but there's no avoiding that both franchises were growing stale. I'm happy to see that said criticism has prompted them to mix things up this time around, much like Titanfall 2 having something of a single player experience. While it's often rooted in simply being a contrarian who "knows better" than the masses, the criticism is valid to a degree and it does often benefit everyone.
