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Activision says Phone call of Duty: Vanguard did not run into expectations 'due to our own execution'

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To use official manufacture parlance, Call of Duty: Vanguard was pretty okay. "The singleplayer has a couple of not bad missions, and the multiplayer has a couple of decent modes," we said in our sixty% review. "But on the whole, Call of Duty: Vanguard is a state of war we've seen earlier."

Apparently, Activision Blizzard feels more or less the same fashion. In its recently-released 2021 annual study, the company said that Vanguard didn't meet expectations, "primarily due to our ain execution."

"The game's World State of war ii setting didn't resonate with some of our community and we didn't deliver every bit much innovation in the premium game as we would have liked," the report says. "Nosotros are certainly addressing both of these issues with the 2022 launch. Developer on the 2022 premium and Warzone experiences is beingness led by Activision'south renowned Infinity Ward studio. Nosotros are working on the nearly ambitious program in Call of Duty history, with over iii,000 people now working on the franchise and a return to the Modern Warfare setting that delivered our most successful Phone call of Duty title ever."

Phone call of Duty definitely appears to be struggling, at least in comparison to the exciting days of 2020 and early 2021, following Warzone'due south release. We reported last calendar week that it shed 50 million players in the past year, due to a blend of disappointing Vanguard sales and "lower appointment" in Warzone, although nosotros theorized that the live-game battle royale Warzone was likely responsible for the bulk of the loss.

Still, it seems clear that Activision is pinning a big chunk of the arraign on Vanguard, and the WW2 setting in general. Which I recall is fair: Vanguard struggled with a number of problems including bugs, bad calls, content delays, and geographical defoliation upward to and after release, while Activision Blizzard has grappled with allegations of widespead workplace misconduct allegations that came to light before Vanguard was announced.

Just apart from all that, the game itself just didn't seem to set whatever imaginations on burn down, and the story—about a multinational four-person squad hunting down "Hitler's successor," who somehow presents an existential threat to the world despite the absolute annihilation of Federal republic of germany in the events immediately preceding the game—just served to illustrate the contortions required to squeeze something "new" out of a World War 2 setting.

Activision Blizzard is clearly pinning some very big hopes on Modern Warfare ii, the adjacent premium release in the Call of Duty series, which was officially confirmed last week, seems very different. Despite the relative letdown of Vanguard, information technology has practiced reason to: Information technology'southward a rough metric, but the Vanguard reveal tweet in Baronial 2021 received a little under 34,000 likes; past dissimilarity, the Black Ops - Cold State of war reveal tweet in 2020 surpassed 118,000 likes, while the Modern Warfare 2 reveal tweet at present stands at over 172,000 likes.

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Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very showtime, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding honey of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.