Numerous Name of Responsibility builders are upset over a joke made by Christopher Decide at The Recreation Awards relating to the size of Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III‘s marketing campaign.
Throughout final night time’s Recreation Awards, Decide — who voiced Kratos in God of Struggle and the following sequel God of Struggle Ragnarök — joked that his notorious acceptance speech final yr was longer than Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare III’s marketing campaign.
Whereas many within the viewers laughed on the joke, present and former builders on-line weren’t too pleased. Numerous builders (by way of CharlieIntel) took to Twitter to share their distaste with the joke, whereas some additionally took photographs on the God of Struggle franchise for its gross sales and engagement in comparison with Name of Responsibility.
Builders really feel damage by the joke at their expense
“‘Humorous’ however yeah the metrics that [Call of Duty] completely destroys the entire God of Struggle video games (in all probability mixed [to be honest]) in can be equally laughable (if no more),” learn one builders tweet. One other famous that God of Struggle has “quick consumer engagement” as soon as the sport is consumed, whereas one other simply lamented the truth that they have been mocked by a peer on the awards.
“Truthfully, as [Call of Duty] builders, we’ve heard method worse. However we don’t anticipate it from a peer, at an occasion that purported to be celebrating this years achievements in gaming. Particularly with all the knowledge that was leaked about it’s growth,” stated one nameless developer.
The Fashionable Warfare III marketing campaign was mocked upon its launch, because it appears to have the ability to be accomplished in solely round 3-4 hours, a surprisingly low quantity in comparison with previous years.
Whereas Name of Responsibility campaigns should not notoriously lengthy, they normally last as long as round 8-10 hours to finish. The earlier entry within the collection, Name of Responsibility: Fashionable Warfare II, took round eight hours to beat, in keeping with the sport monitoring web site HowLongToBeat.