There may still be hope - CoD: Advanced Warfare preorders sluggish

[ApexMods]

VentureBeat's Jeffrey Grubb:

Activision is one of the biggest video game publishers in the world thanks to a handful of gigantic properties. But as it unleashes its upcoming megahit, its most successful brand of the last 10 years looks like it’s starting to lose its sales luster.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare preorders continue to track more than 50 percent behind 2013’s Ghosts, according to Cowen and Company analyst Doug Cruetz. The industry-tracking expert notes that Advanced Warfare is tracking 80 percent behind 2012’s Black Ops II. Call of Duty game regularly generate $1 billion in revenue for Activision, but Ghosts didn’t perform as well as Black Ops II. If Advanced Warfare sells worse than Ghosts, this could signify that the franchise is on a permanent decline.

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Who knows, maybe people finally wise up to this horrific bane of gaming culture.

[Blame]

Nah, its still a Call of Duty and something that has been ruined already, cannot be undone with the next 5 titles.

[ApexMods]

Blame, what I meant is that all those people who so far purchased every single half-assed "new" release of COD (or BF, for that matter), may eventually come to understand just how unbelievable bloodless and shallow this series really is, and that repeatedly throwing their hard-earned cash after a game series maintained by its publisher for the sole purpose of milking customers dry, without any trace of originality, without any sign of real development effort put into it, may not be the smartest thing to do, after all.

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln