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10/29/2014 4:09 PM ·Spoilers

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Hmm analysts bet we'll see another game "Advanced Warfare is now pacing almost 40 percent behind last year’s Ghosts and almost 70 percent behind 2012’s Black Ops 2,” the analysts note. “We continue to believe CoD will be down meaningfully vs. last year. With the franchise facing two consecutive significant year on year declines in sales, we think it is prudent to assume it has peaked.”

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It's sad really cause the franchise is/was a high quality franchise. Why do companies have to seek greed in the short term instead of long term profitability and stability?

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Assassin's Creed will soon be following this path

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Frequency and lack of creativity...and how they treat us Nintendo fans: these are the reasons for their problems. Too bad, so sad.

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Of course. It is like I always said: TAKE YOUR TIME WITH THE GAME! DO NOT RUSH THINGS! But no. Companies these days just want to make a quick money.

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As "Noobs" said awhile back, There isn't the Hype around AW as with previous CoD's I have the game pre-ordered But, even I think it looks like TitanFall w/o the titans. My thought is people seemed 2 hate BO2 'till Ghosts dropped then BO2 wasn't so bad. When AW drops I think some of those who hate Ghosts will realize it's NOT SO BAD! Just My thought anyway.

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@PaPierre this actually goes a bit beyond Nintendo. COD was pretty much the killer app that managed to unseat Medal of Honor among other games around the same time. Their first 3 games were stellar and what broke it open (for me) was the use of the Wii motes). World at War hit on a trippy realism that was just impressive. Modern Warfare obviously gave us a modern version of the series.

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Then the series went back and looked at clandestine ops with the two black ops games

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Now I honestly don't know what they have left to tell. Yes there's a lot of war to make stories from but they over used the game. If the series had a longer Dev cycle with all the games like if ghosts came out 5 years after BOII and the latest 3 years after Ghosts then the attachment would be higher.

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Other devs can make knock off series in between and when COD returns people will want to play what they didn't have It's why Nintendo and Mk8 and Smash are doing so well where games like Mario World and DKCR didn't (people got a lil burned out)

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Even Final Fantasy is running into the same problem I noticed 15 games later

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People just gotta be happy with the things they've already got, instead of crying for more shortly after flying through a games' story mode.

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That's a great point actually. Though you know some of this is the whole trend of devs doing what gamers want them to do instead of making independent choices using gamer input

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And I couldn't be happier. The more you pump out the same thing over and over and over people are going to get tired of it. Games like CoD and AC are the very definition of 'rehash'. Btw, Take-Two announced GTAV sold 35 million units. I guess people haven't grown tired of raype sims yet.

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Coming out every year Im not surprised, I think if Mario kart and/or Smash bros came out every year I wouldn't buy them every year. Also I only buy COD for zombies, as ghosts and AW are both lacking zombies Im not interested, even though AW has a rip off version I'm only interested in the real deal!

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dang isn't that the same sales as MKWII?

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@Jack if it is it's still for multiple consoles rather than just one

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Even with the GTA series take a look at the main 5 games and the dates: Grand Theft Auto 1 1997 PC, PlayStation, Game Boy Color Grand Theft Auto 2 1999 PC, PlayStation, Dreamcast, Game Boy Color Grand Theft Auto III 2001 PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, iOS devices, Android devices Grand Theft Auto IV 2008 PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 Grand Theft Auto V 2013 PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PS4, PC, X1

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I have to applaud Rockstar Games. GTA is a really well done franchise. The amount of thought and attention gone to making it a true fun experience is fantastic. They will delay a game if they feel it's not ready.

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Yeah. If you compare those games to call of Duty's dates you'll see a huge difference.

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Koi you made excellent points there as always!

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