cod is pretty universally hated because it just isnt cod anymore otherwise i would be playing that, hasnt ow done enough now to be pushed more?
OW has done enough pr marketing disasters to not get pushed anymore.
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The answer is simple. CoD makes more money in its initial purchases, DLCs, cosmetics, etc. OW only makes money via cosmetics.
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Essentially this lol
But pushing past all of the past broken promises and marketing disasters from switching to F2P OW seems to be in a very amazing place right now in my genuine opinion.
I think COD is something people gravitate towards generally if all they want to do is pew pew and hide. Big guns, testosterone, military.
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And Nicki Minaj
The only good thing about COD was it’s zombies and they butchered that to all hell.
We went from coming together as a community to try and solve the storyline (easter eggs) together. (Which was an amazing storyline, btw.)
To make a wish, training wheel simulator, tutorial that does it all for you. (Absolute dogwater of a story too.)
Truly the biggest fumble of mankind
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Then why does everyone buy it? … there must be a reasonable amount of people who enjoy it if they’re still selling boxes.
alpha males love call of duty is probably why
Does someone still play CoD in this economy? It’s hard to say who pushes what more since Candy Crush Saga alone crushes both titles and their competitors in this economy
FYI, Overwatch isn’t Overwatch anymore, either…
The difference is that franchises like Fifa or COD that release a “new” game every year are more profitable to big companies.
Maybe if Overwatch was releasing a new P2P game each year, it would be “pushed more”, as you put it (whatever that means for you).
I don’t have data to back it up but I think the gaming community is still predominantly more into P2P games than F2P games. I guess the younger generations (players between 10 to 25-30 years old) are more into F2P games but gamers from the 80s-90s and earlier do exist and have a bigger budget for P2P games.
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It’s because Activision has a monopoly of that genre’s market.
For the consumer, even if another company makes a compelling game that’s decent, if it doesn’t have the same level of polish that COD has, then it’s inevitably going to be viewed as obsolete.
We’ve actually seen this with Ubisoft’s XDefiant just recently.
… this still means that people don’t hate it.
People don’t generally KEEP buying things they hate. It’s basically fifa now, every year you get a new one and people just keep signing up for it.
So I can’t give any credence to the idea it’s even nearly universally hated.
CoD has more mass appeal, because it’s simpler and designed so that anyone can play it and do well without practice or effort. OW is the opposite.
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Wait what? She’s in it? Heck where have I been?
I think it’s the “I’ll give it a chance mentality.”
The Nintendo effect, everybody hates, everybody buys; just check the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World sales numbers 
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… nobody actually hates playing nintendo games though. They’re fun and usually have incredible polish (insert crazy bugs from that pokemon game here). This is something they can be depended on for 99% of the time. So people buy the game they know will be a familiar experience.
Like I get the meme, but people don’t actually HATE things they buy on purpose over and over.
If you buy COD and then regret it… more than one time… that is on you. There’s like 10+ examples of it just being the same game with a few things changed. If you didn’t enjoy it the last 5 times… you’ll probably not like it now.
CoD feels more a complete game, while OW more like an experiment imo. The devs wanted to try other things than pew pew in FPS but the design and implementation needed more effort tbh. Indeed pew pew is still the most popular by far in OW.
What OW did really well other than pew pew is hypermobility. Anything else lacks depth somehow.
Yeah
Although it’d probably be a tactical disadvantage while trying to hide with how big her…assets…are 
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