The question of this thread is simple? What is the reason for Call of Duty as a whole getting the visceral hatred that it does, where it is now popular and expected to bash any and all new moves that are made?
It is no secret that Call of Duty's image to the general public consciousness is not at all favorable, especially since Ghosts. You know the lines of attack: the series is repetitive, overly commercialized, doesn't innovate, is just a license to print money, in a death spiral of irrelevance, running out of ideas, and so on. But what accounts for the hatred being cranked up to the levels it has recently, with the Infinite Warfare reveal trailer becoming the second-most hated video on YouTube? What is the reason for the series suddenly becoming the leper of the video game world?
In addition, why the criticisms that contradict each other? People complained about the series needing to branch out and do something different after Modern Warfare 3 and Black Ops II. Then these same people see the direction taken, and say that it has lost its way, that the future tech is "phony and pointless" and needs to return to WWII, "back to when it was real!" Why this switch, and why does it make the haters look like either hypocrites or too flighty to know what they actually want?
I didn't find the right solution from the internet.
References:
https://www.codforums.com/threads/what- ... acks.6345/