Early last week Activision revealed its forthcoming "Call of Duty" game for 2016. The title, named "Infinite Warfare," launched to an overwhelming amount of negative responses from viewers and fans of the franchise. As of this writing, the reveal trailer has been viewed over 12 million times, has over 200,000 likes and over 900,000 dislikes.
Following the negative reaction from fans, Activision has decided to speak out and give their point-of-view on the subject. Activision had a quarterly earnings call where the company CEO, Eric Hirshberg, was asked point blank how he felt about the overwhelming number of dislikes, reports FragHero. Hirshbert said:
"The reveal trailer for 'Black Ops II,' which took the franchise into the future for the first time, had the most dislikes of any reveal trailer we had ever made at that time. And that, of course, went on to become our most successful game ever."
Furthermore, Activision released a full statement putting some context on the fans response to the "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" trailer. Check out the statement below courtesy of Kotaku:
"On the second part of your question related to Infinite Warfare, first of all you got to love the passion of gamers. This is an industry like no other, and a fan base like no other and we love that our fans treat this franchise like it’s their own and have such strong points of view about it. There just aren’t many entertainment franchises on Earth that can generate the kind of passion that Call of Duty can and that’s a good thing.
Secondly, of course we know that there are people in our community who are nostalgic for the boots-on-the-ground-style gameplay, and that’s why we made Modern Warfare Remastered. But we also have millions of people in our community who want to have new innovative experiences in the game each year and Infinite Warfare is going to deliver that. And the good news is this year we found a way to deliver both in one package while keeping our community together.
And while of course we see the passionate opinions online, we also look at other measurements. And the fact is, while it’s very early, pre-orders are off to a very strong start. Views of the reveal trailer that you referred to are up and in fact the number of likes per view on the Infinite Warfare reveal trailer are also the highest we’ve ever seen.
We’ve seen this in the franchise before. The reveal trailer for Black Ops II, which took the franchise into the future for the first time, had the most dislikes of any reveal trailer we had ever made at that time. And that, of course, went on to become our most successful game ever.
And right now, the franchise has never been stronger. We have more people playing Black Ops III, a game that takes place in the future with boost jumps and fictitious weapons and all the rest, than any game in our history. So what we know for sure is that if we always just did what worked in the past and never took any creative risks, we wouldn’t have a franchise. The day to worry is the day we stop trying new things."
We will have to wait and see if the publisher can turn these opinions around with more gameplay footage and trailers. But until then, be the judge for yourself and check out the "Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare" announcement trailer below:
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