With launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3whose multiplayer mode was spotted a few hours ago in a nostalgia-filled trailer franchise to celebrate its twentieth anniversary. Few intellectual properties in the video game industry can boast that without losing an iota of popularity. At Activision, of course, they understand that they are the owners of the golden house, and they are not going to give it up.
When it became known that the vast majority of Activision’s internal studios in one way or another work on A sense of duty, some thought it was a movement to counter the health crisis. However, the pandemic is over and all of these teams are still participating in successful achievements First person shooter. And from what Activision president Rob Kostich says, that won’t change in the short term.
It is more than obvious that at the moment, Activision has no room for another franchise but A sense of duty. In fact, his roadmap clearly outlines what to launch FPS at least for the next 4 years.
“We are in the planning stage. Our long-term planning phase. Now we have games (from A sense of duty) is scheduled for 2027. Everything that has happened in the past is a great learning experience. We have a focus group that tells us what they think about this franchise that we pay special attention to,” Kostic said. Bit games.
Modern war in Black operations are pillars A sense of duty
The manager, on the other hand, claims that they’ve realized they like sagas Modern war in Black operations are the most popular of A sense of dutyand based on this success they make decisions for the future.
It is now clear that his greatest efforts are concentrated on these two sagas. After the official announcement Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3from Activision they stated that this title will not be the final look of Task Force 141. That is, They will make the most of this setting and narrative.
The above contrasts with the original trilogy Modern war, which ended in 2011. However, it was palpable that players missed the modern warfare that Infinity Ward envisioned. Activision knew this and therefore released it reboot sagas in 2019.
This is so important A sense of duty for Activision, which today has more than 3,000 people from different studios working on the franchise.
“These games now require quite a bit of work. These are pretty big teams trying to put it all together. This is a monumental effort. The competition is real, so we are just focused on how we can meet the expectations of our players. And it takes a lot more to achieve that today than it did in the past.”
Rob Kostic.
Kostic now mentions that there are three more studios that separately handle each production project. A sense of duty: Infinity Ward, Treyarch and Sledgehammer Games. The latter, by the way, command the development Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Therefore, the remaining teams serve as support teams.
So… Can we expect anything else from Activision? A sense of duty? Kostic himself says they have some ideas that he can’t share details about yet. He also emphasized that in the past they triumphed with Fate, Skylanders, Guitar hero in Tony Hawk. However, they don’t want to promote any other franchise until they are sure they have the right team to do so.
Nowadays, it is more and more difficult to move forward, probably more than ever. We are always thinking about how to go beyond A sense of duty.”
Rob Kostic.
of course This whole strategy could change if Microsoft finally manages to pull off Activision Blizzard’s purchase of King, which may inevitably happen. We don’t know if those in Redmond have the same vision A sense of duty and the rest of the publisher’s franchises.
