Call of Duty's developers know they messed up, but their solution isn't the right one |
Activision has announced a huge change for the Call of Duty series: we'll no longer be seeing consecutive releases in either the Modern Warfare or Black Ops subseries.
From 2005 until 2022, each annual Call of Duty release has had a different lead developer, usually alternating between Infinity Ward and Treyarch, with Sledgehammer Games taking point on a few too. Modern Warfare and Black Ops have been prominent throughout — and despite some divergences with games such as Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, and WWII, that alternation in developer has also translated to an alternation in each subseries, too.
In 2023, Modern Warfare 3 was released just a year after Modern Warfare 2, bucking that trend; despite Sledgehammer Games taking the lead for that one, it was the first time we'd seen two Modern Warfare games in a row. This year, Black Ops 7 immediately followed Black Ops 6. But the latest release hasn't had the best reception; our