Agreed. It's probably why Blizzard is doing so much better than all their competitors. It should be quality over quantity in the gaming world. If a game has to be delayed 5 times, so be it. If it's perfect when it is received, I'm happy.
Activision and Blizzard are the same thing. Activision is the publisher of CoD, it is part Activision's fault, and that is the same company of Blizzard.
What I think you meant to say was, games made by Blizzard are the same as those made by Valve - they may take years between releases, but the end product is something so polished and something that feels like perfection from the word go. Activision, the other side of Blizzard, who decided to release a CoD game every year, make things feel rushed and not fresh at all
Maybe it is just me, but I don't like shooting games where you have to rank up and get XP. It just makes it a time sink and imitates a MMO. If I wanted to grind away XP to level up to unlock new crap, I'd play a MMO.
Whatever happened to playing a game and using actual skill and tactics? Close quarters, use a shotgun, long range a rifle, stealth knife and silenced handgun, so on and so forth.
I bought COD4 and BC2 and I own a few of the Battlefield games. The second I realized I had to rank up to unlock items, I got very very bored with it and lost interest.
Where are all the mods? The reason games like Counter-Strike (which on paper is a crappy game) still has servers filled every day, and it is because it is flexible and doesn't require a time sink to unlock weapons. There are tons and tons of mods for it too.
I think WaW and all CoD games previous to that are exceptions. It takes so little time to rank up, even if you dislike it, you have everything with in a day or two, which is the same as having everything from the start - it would take you that long to try everything out and to see the merits of some things over others, it just guides you (or forces you depending on how you like the unlock system) through all of the stuff. You don't NEED to grind the camo's, no bugger cares about them
The reason I say pre WaW is because of mods. You look at CoD and the mods that they have, with the exception of surf, are the same as CS. You have your gungame, sniper, zombie, maze/challenges, match mods and servers. There are the mods for it and if you look at how populated they are, you can always get a game of any mod that you want.
MW2 didn't feel right because every weapon was overpowered, anybody of any skill could play it, so it drew it all of the kids, that and because it was a direct console port, and because it didn't have dedicated servers.
BO alleviated one of those problems with dedi servers...but then stopped mods and had an unplayable game.
CoD is just a money maker now since it became so massive thanks to CoD2 and CoD4, so hardly any time or effort goes in and they try to make it as bad as possible so people don't want to play it by the time the new one comes out
