{"id":571,"date":"2025-03-05T09:55:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:20:19","slug":"games-inbox-should-call-of-duty-warzone-be-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/games-inbox-should-call-of-duty-warzone-be-shut-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Should Call Of Duty: Warzone be shut down?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Should Call Of Duty: Warzone – is it a lost cause? (Activision)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Wednesday letters page is getting very excited about the Nintendo Direct in April, as a reader asks what the connection is between Dark Souls and Elden Ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COD crowd<\/strong>
I honestly didn\u2019t know that Call Of Duty: Warzone is in such trouble<\/a> but I\u2019ll be honest, I\u2019m glad of it. I used to play the game very regularly a year or two ago but it is so completely overtaken by cheats that it\u2019s literally unplayable. I have no idea what they must be getting out of all this, given they\u2019re trying to cheat in a game already filled by cheaters, but it\u2019s an absolute wasteland out there, in terms of having a proper game.<\/p>\n

Unless there\u2019s some major technical solution to this that\u2019s possible, I just don\u2019t see any way to save the game but then I also don\u2019t see what difference rebooting it for a second time is going to do. So in that sense I can see why they Activision<\/a> would just give up on it, strange as that seems.<\/p>\n

The problem for them is that if it\u2019s successful, and it has Call Of Duty in the name, it\u2019s always going to attract the worst of the worst of gamers and I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything they can do about it. Apex Legends is a similar kind of game, that does similar numbers, but it\u2019s not nearly as bad, just because it doesn\u2019t attract the COD crowd as much.
Overtop<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lack of sincere flattery<\/strong>
Very excited about playing Split Fiction this week and I do think back to GC\u2019s interview with Josef Fares<\/a>, where they asked him why nobody else is copying his stuff and he didn\u2019t know. I do find it very weird how companies let lets of other fads go by without ever trying to copy them, but the minute battle royale is a thing suddenly they\u2019re all over that.<\/p>\n

I get that it\u2019s because the rewards are bigger but at the same time the chances of success are lower. You make a good co-op game and apparently you can sell 20+ million and be king of your own genre. I don\u2019t get the impression Split Fiction was especially expensive to make and they did it in three year, so it can\u2019t really have been.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t even really call it indie, given how good it looks. But how many It Takes Two clones are there in the world? Zero. And how many battle royales? Too many to count.
Gannet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be careful what you wish for<\/strong>
I\u2019d be a little wary of getting too excited about the success of Monster Hunter Wilds, because it\u2019s been so big I fear we\u2019re in danger of Capcom just becoming the Monster Hunter factory.<\/p>\n

Remember, that way back in time Activision used to make games other than Call Of Duty. But the bigger that got the less interested they got in everything else, and now they only make that one game.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Capcom are that kind of company, but greed corrupts everyone in the end, if they have things too easy for too long.
Skipper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From cinematic universe<\/strong>
I do find it interesting that FromSoftware have said there won\u2019t be a sequel to Elden Ring, only the multiplayer spin-off. I admire that, because it\u2019s always best to get new games rather than more sequels, but I do wonder what the motivation is there, given it\u2019s their most successful game for a long while.<\/p>\n

Since it\u2019s still quite similar to Dark Souls – and could quite easily have been called Dark Souls 4 – I do wonder whether the next game will be the same: a different name and world but still the same kind of dark gothic fantasy world.<\/p>\n

At that point I feel it\u2019s going to start seeming a bit weird that you have all these similar but not connected worlds that could easily be the same thing if they just changed the name on the front of the box. Maybe From could start to link them all together though? What is the Lands Between actually between? Maybe it\u2019s the Dark Souls universe and the Demon\u2019s Souls one.<\/p>\n

Although that might come dangerously close to explaining things and I know that\u2019s definitely not something FromSoftware like to do.
Galen<\/strong><\/p>\n

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