While Call of Duty Vanguard was not perfect, there were many on Twitter and Reddit who were hoping for it to fail from the moment they saw a black man featured on the cover art, resulting in a negative social media campaign that painted Vanguard as “SJW propaganda created by diversity hires and radical feminists”, something which could not be further from the truth.Įditor’s Comment: I wish that Activision Blizzard had supported Call of Duty Vanguard for at least two years to show bigots that diversity was the future, and their attempts at demanding less diverse titles fell on deaf ears instead of prematurely announced Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and cutting an entire season worth of content and three operators from Call of Duty Vanguard. With 16 regular Multiplayer maps and four specialist Champion Hill maps, Call of Duty Vanguard launched with more maps than any title in recent memory, and the developers continued to add to that number, with an additional ten multiplayer and three zombie maps being released as post-launch content in 2021-2022.ĭespite being one of the most played games of 2021-2022 and best selling game of 2021, a generally lukewarm reception by more vocal elements of the Call of Duty community and its failure to meet Activision’s admittedly high sales expectations resulted in Call of Duty Vanguard Season Six being cancelled and the majority of the development team reassigned to other projects. As we get closer to its reveal and release, expect Activision to start talking more details about how it plans to support the Call of Duty franchise-which it has a majority of its developers working on-moving forward.Call of Duty Vanguard, despite its mixed reception, was the best shooter we received in 2021, offering a standard of quality and quantity that neither Battlefield 2042 or Halo Infinite were able to match. This would be shortly after the expected November launch of Call of Duty 2021, aka Vanguard.Ĭall of Duty: Vanguard is expected to be revealed sometime in August, following the same roadmap as last year’s Black Ops Cold War reveal in-game via Warzone. Currently the game only has slots for six total seasons in its menus, with the sixth Season expected to end at some point in December. It’s also unclear what Henderson means by “most supported Call of Duty title.” Some replies allege that this could just mean a bunch of new store bundles to entice purchases from players, but it would also make sense to continue adding content and events in order to further keep players playing, which will in turn help maintain post-launch revenue. How these plans will fit into plans to integrate Warzone and Call of Duty: Vanguard together upon its release later this year remain to be seen, but Activision did support Modern Warfare for a time following Black Ops Cold War’s release (and it’s still tied into the ecosystem and progression, even if it doesn’t regularly receive new content). With this in mind, it makes sense that Activision would want to continue support for Black Ops Cold War, which is apparently “exceeding expectations” in that post-launch revenue department. Given that Treyarch’s Black Ops sub-series and Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare sub-series are the main pillars of the Call of Duty franchise (along with Warzone, which is now tied into both), the next game coming from Sledgehammer doesn’t have the same kind of foundation that the other two do. This aligns with previous reports that Call of Duty: Vanguard is expected to perform worse than either Black Ops Cold War or Modern Warfare 2019. I was told recently that Black Ops Cold War will likely be the most supported Call of Duty title after its “cycle” has ended as its post-launch revenue is exceeding expectations.
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