Call of Duty's yearly release cycle.

Smokey · October 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM

What do you think of Call of Duty's yearly release cycle? Personally, I'd like it to be 1 game every 2 years. I feel that would make more sense and be easier on the players, especially if they're going to be pushing shop bundles for skins and such.

Lace Sabatons · October 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM Official Post

1 game every 2 years would certainly be a more manageable pace, and hopefully allow their developers to work at a healthier pace.

As a general rule, I'm not interested in a game that is built to be replaced by a future game, which all the CoD games are.

**Kaynil** · October 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM Official Post

Hard agree. I think it will give more of a chance to really juice the game and build more anticipation for the next one.

It kind of reminds me on how at one point we started getting assassins creed game one after the other and some people got burnout.

Smokey · November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM

Quote from Kaynil

Hard agree. I think it will give more of a chance to really juice the game and build more anticipation for the next one.
It kind of reminds me on how at one point we started getting assassins creed game one after the other and some people got burnout.

Exactly. Their counterargument though is "There's 3 different development teams making different sub series though." Yeah, but they all use the same engine now so they all more or less feel the same.

I really think 1 game every 2 years would do wonders for the series, I mean they already milk the hell out of the whales with microtransactions constantly, so it's not like they wouldn't be making bank for an entire year. Plus now with game pass, they've already lost a chunk of folks who would've pre-ordered each year so I don't see the point in the yearly release anymore, TBH.