Call of Duty: Vanguard, which was released in November, experienced a decrease of nearly 40 percent in digital and physical sales compared to the previous game of the series, Black Ops Cold War. It was the worst-released Call of Duty game in 14 years.
Activison Blizzard, in its latest annual earnings report, attributed the failure of Call of Duty: Vanguard to the game’s period. “The game did not meet our expectations,” said the company, and admitted that the disappointing sales performance was due to Vanguard’s World War II themed character.
“We couldn’t offer as much innovation as we wanted”
Explaining that the game’s World War II environment did not resonate with some of our community, Activision said, “We couldn’t offer as much innovation as we wanted in the premium game.” he said.
Underlining that they will not repeat the mistakes they made in Vanguard (bad time and lack of innovation) in the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game, which is expected to be released later this year. Activision shared the following information:
There are currently over 3,000 people working on the franchise. We’re working on the most ambitious plan in Call of Duty history, with a return to the Modern Warfare environment that gave us our most successful Call of Duty title yet.
Call of Duty: WWII, which launched worldwide in 2017, was also World War II themed, and the game managed to earn $ 500 million in its three-day opening weekend. Activision boasted that WWII, whose total sales exceeded $1 billion, was in demand many times more than Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare.
received a reaction with the scene of the Qur’an
In November, the pages of the Qur’an, which appeared to be covered in blood and scattered on the ground in Call of Duty: Vanguard, quickly became viral on social media. After the incident, Activision admitted that the content was placed in the game “insensitively” and by mistake, saying, “It should never have looked like that. We deeply apologize for that.”
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