February 18th, 2012
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A recent listing on online retailer Amazon France appears to have outed the name of the next Call of Duty game…
We all know a new Call of Duty is in the works for 2012, Activision confirmed as much just last week during an investors call, but the game’s title was not revealed.
Yesterday, French game site, Gameblog reported that Amazon France accidentally listed Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 for pre-order. The listing was quickly removed by Amazon at the request of Activision, but the story gets deeper.
Activision France then contacted Gameblog and demanded the news be pulled from the site — which Gameblog triumphantly refused to do. However, Activision France has now disinvited the site from a preview event for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and also canceled advertising campaigns they had planned to run on the site.
Activision has yet to comment on any report concerning Black Ops 2. We’ll keep you updated.
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activision, you guys are a bunch of F***ing IDIOTS. no one is surprised that this game is coming out. did you really think that it was going to be some big, shocking announcement? are you kidding? here is another shocker. a new “madden” game is coming out this year.
secondly, you guys already know that this game is going to sell 20+ million copies, regardless of ANYTHING. are you guys really that moneygrubbing, that you are worried about your financial situation? you, the owners of “CALL OF DUTY”??? this is a joke.
F*** activision and F*** call of duty
The problem isn’t in how many copies it’s going to sell but the amount of people that are going to be poisoned with this SH*T! I mean, does anyone even care about classics anymore? Well, I do and I play them. Who would buy Tomb Raider Legend nowadays? I would and I would enjoy playing it. Any game other than CoD is a GAME and not some BULLSH*T that people like nowadays.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Bam ! In yo’ face ACTIVISION !
Wait… There’s going to be a new Call of Duty this year?
Holy sh*t, who saw THAT coming?!
Everyone friggin knew it was going to be BO2. They just take the original BO file and add a new coat of paint, add one or two new features and there’s BO2. Activision is the new EA (when EA was a bunch of A-holes back then).
My exact opinion. I used to like EA way back when, then they started milking their best franchises to no end. The Need For Speed series went from such a great series to complete garbage.
This gen though, EA has easily been one of the best. Sure they’ve been buying up developers, but much like Sony, EA seems to give their developers seemingly unlimited time and funding to create a great game.
As a third party developer and publisher, not just publisher, I think that EA has a far better line up of games this gen than almost any other developer. Almost, as Sony, Capcom, and Square-Enix beat that number due to not only having a lot of good console games, but also a bunch of great handheld games, which EA seems to be lacking. Sadly, Square-Enix this gen only has good handheld games. I’m pretty hopeful for Sleeping Dogs(True Crime Hong Kong,) the game that Activision cancelled and Square-Enix later picked up.
Activision are lower than the dog shit that seeps through soil.
I am proud that I don’t buy their games. I do not have 1 activsion game from this gen in my collection, and i have 1 EA game, which i was highly dissapointed in (Bulletstorm).
I only sometimes rent EA or Activision games (not CoD) or borrow them off a friend.
The sad thing is, Cod will not fail as many people wish. As soon as the 9 year olds from this year turn 10, theres another million players. same cycle year after year.
guess they felt it was too early for people to go, “awe, lame
.here’s my money”
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***call of duty comminng to ps-vita***
As a (former) fan of the Call Of Duty franchise, even I’m sick of this. I looked forward to MW3 for the single player campaign but this yearly multiplayer has grown stagnant. When you need 2 development teams to pump out a game once a year, then you’re going to lose the integrity of the game. When I heard the core members of Infinity Ward left, I was done with Activision then. I may get Black Ops 2 when it’s like $10 USED but that’s a big maybe. MW3 isn’t as bad as most people make it out to be (just because you don’t like it coming out once a year and not adding much doesn’t make it bad) but it doesn’t add enough to keep me coming back once a year just to rehash the same thing. Activision will not get anymore of my money. Respawn Games may get it but that’s if they produce something worth my time. And Bulletstorm was great. Just saying.
I borrowed MW3 from a friend, finished the campaign and gave it back.
It was not worthy of the full retail price. I stopped giving Activision my money with Black Ops. The franchise is just one big movie with a few playable sections.
I would like to point out this:
“Activision France then contacted Gameblog and demanded the news be pulled from the site — which Gameblog triumphantly refused to do. However, Activision France has now disinvited the site from a preview event for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and also canceled advertising campaigns they had planned to run on the site.”
This here explains the commercial ties of software publishers and the media. This explains why many high profile games get high praises from the gaming media even if they don’t deserve it and why others get downgraded in reviews. Reviews in general may be subjective opinions but when money is involved things aren’t so simple.
^This^ YES!
That last paragraph took the words from my mouth.
Go away Activision. Make some new games.
Although I am looking forward to COD on the Vita ( if I end up getting one). That would be pretty cool, as long as they do something different.