Call of Duty: Warzone was released on March 10th back in 2020 and has seen tremendous success in the first-person shooter genre with a large number of players playing every day and with the regular updates and additional content, the game became an overwhelming success, however, the game hasn’t attracted everyone as it was hoped as some players have shown their frustration with the game on social media blaming that Warzone has ruined the multiplayer experience of the Call of Duty franchise.
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Call of Duty Players Have Blamed Warzone for Ruining Multiplayer
A renowned Call of Duty X (formerly Twitter) account going by the username, ModernWarzone asked their community if they think Warzone has ruined the multiplayer side of Call of Duty. The post saw large numbers of players saying yes and stating why they believe so.
Did Warzone ruin the multiplayer side of Call of Duty?
— ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) August 27, 2023
Users said that it was evident from the beginning with the prestige system being scrapped. Another user said that the developers prioritized the FTP game instead of the paid version due to microtransactions and neglected multiplayer in the due process.
Partially, yes.
But strict SBMM, removing prestige, and Infinity Ward’s core design principles have done more harm.
Warzone & Multiplayer can both thrive and co-exist. They’ve just failed to do so thus far.
— 𝐍𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 (@Nocturnal2002) August 27, 2023
Not necessarily Warzone but battle royals in general have ruined traditional MPs in all shooters.
— KDGYT 🧀🦌 (@Official414) August 27, 2023
Many users also argued that it wasn’t just Warzone, but competitive gaming and battle royale games in general ruined it with the arrival of more multiplayer games. Another user said that it’s been along time since there’s been a decline in arena shooters and Call of Duty was never safe from that. He explained that players nowadays look for rewards, they do not want to rack up numbers on the scoreboard anymore.
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Nope. Arena shooters have long been on the decline and COD was never safe from that.
A lot of gamers crave more reward than just racking up high numbers on a scoreboard nowadays.
— Loochy (@LoochyTV) August 27, 2023
These responses from so many users evidently state that there’s a Call of Duty community not so happy with the multiplayer in Warzone and the developers deciding to integrate different sides of COD and scrapping the features resulted in killing of both the sides.
Not Everyone Thinks Warzone Is the Culprit
As expected, not everyone was blaming Warzone as a few users stated that it’s the developers fault going for strict SBMM and removing the prestige system that saw the downfall of multiplayer. Users also said that they should straight up divide the studios and take different sides of Call of Duty and focus on them and try not to ruin it anymore.
In a way, yes.
Classic Prestiges being removed, Extremely Strict SBMM, Catering heavily towards rewarding people sitting in a corner and just every single double down that they done otherwise have hurt Multiplayer more.
Multiplayer could easily be as good again if they decided…
— vin (@Vinarchy) August 27, 2023
My take would be if they were to divide studios to solely focus on the two VERY different sides of Call of Duty I believe we would see monumental success.
Just because something needs changed in Warzone does not mean it needs to affect MP as well.
— JaysWASD (@JaysWASD) August 27, 2023
Warzone has seen some distinguished collaborations with renowned brands such as The Boys and Lara Croft from Tomb Raider however it still hasn’t managed to captivate a large amount of its player base.
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Anyways, it is clear that there is a big chunk of Call of Duty players who want multiplayer and Warzone to be two different things and with the release of Modern Warfare 3 coming close, players can only hope what state multiplayer will be in but it is likely that the game will have at least have some kind of integration with Warzone.
What are your thoughts about the fall of multiplayer? Do you think Warzone and multiplayer should be two different entities or are you okay with it?
Source: Twitter
