All this is still only rumour, but it’d be interesting. Activision have always felt old-fashioned with CoD. They stuck with playerbase-splitting paid map packs long after other games binned them as the horrible things they are. Other companies largely stepped back from annual sequels long ago too, sports games aside. CoD has still made heaps of money, but it’d be sensible to question how much longer that can last without paying attention to the industry changing around them.
“We have an exciting slate of premium and free-to-play Call of Duty experiences for this year, next year and beyond,” Activision PR told Bloomberg in response to the report. “We look forward to sharing more details when the time is right.”
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