After EA released some sneak peek of their latest game in the addition to Battlefield franchise, the internet broke and Activison lost. And #RIPCOD set a trend. Doesn’t sound logical? Well..
First of all, let’s be clear, Battlefield vs CallOfDuty has been a long deferred war, each time when Battlefield gets a new release with a trailer, whole of internet breaks apart with #RIPCOD trending all over social networks and people ride on shitstorms talking about how bad CoD would be but it doesn’t right? Every time they tend to sell the game 100x times more than the community projection. In a report and historical data gathered by StatisticBrain, CallOfDuty: Ghosts sold over 16million copies followed by CallOfDuty: Black Ops 3 (released in 15) which sold over 4.5 million copies till date.
#RIPCOD
The hashtag #RIPCOD is currently trending on twitter worldwide and it is not just stopping at this. Other than twitter, whole of the Battlefield and CoD players have shown disgraceful feedback towards the launch trailer of CoD: Infinity Ward and the launch trailer now has over 600,000 dislikes which now holds a record for the most disliked game trailer video in YouTube history.
Well, very sure Activision did aim to break and make some records with this game but not in this motion to be subtle. Comments such as ‘you suck’ and ‘fail cod’ are spammed elsewhere the game is discussed. The gamers are so much out of patience with the non-interesting trailer of the game that until now, while writing this piece, the video’s dislikes has taken over the numbers of people with little hopes.
Battlefield 1 trailer
The huge storm of dislikes was already underway just after Activision unveiled the trailer; later, to do the honors for phase two, EA released the trailer of Battlefield 1 and it just became everything messy at a different level. Memes, trolls, abuses and what not to defame the whole of franchise.
The level of disagreement and the rage was so strong that it got Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg under the scanner, and while asking about certain questions on the integrity of developing such a mass criticized game, he responded.
First of all, you gotta love the passion of gamers. This is an industry like no other and a fan base like no other. We love that our fans treat this franchise like 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.
He was also quick to point out how the Black Ops 2 trailer held the previous record of being the most disliked Call of Duty game trailer and it eventually turned out to be the most successful Call of Duty game ever made.
By quickly comparing the current rage with that of its predecessor, he told about how Black Ops 2 trailer held the previous record of being the most disliked game-trailer which eventually turned out to be the most successful Call of Duty game ever produced.
