huge successes of Modern Warfare and the new Call of Duty this year – review

Activision presented a fresh quarterly report in which she spoke about the results of the corporation over the past three months.

For starters, sales dynamics Call of Duty: Modern Warfare became a record for the series – it is also ahead of Black ops 2 (2012) and Modern warfare 3 (2011). If that goes well, then the shooter will be the most successful release in history.

In achieving the result, a huge help was provided by the free Call of Duty: Warzone, which due to its distribution model has attracted especially much attention on MS. The total audience of the royal battle has already exceeded 60 million people.

The publisher as a whole was surprised by the number of players who decided to purchase Modern Warfare after Warzone – the company’s expectations were lower.

Microtransaction revenue doubled compared to Black Ops 4 in early 2019. The refusal of paid cards in favor of a combat badge with cosmetics seriously revived the audience.

In this new Call of dutyDespite the pandemic and remote development, it’s still getting ready for release this fall. Officially, Activision has not yet announced who is leading the development, but thanks to leaks, we know that it is Treyarch, and we are waiting for a game in the Black Ops universe.

During the year, among other things, the publisher will release two more premium games. Most likely, one of them will be a new “Crash“.

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