Call of Duty 2025: Questionable? Apparently the main developer has not yet been determined!

The current Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III wasn’t necessarily well received by the community, as the game sometimes felt quickly cobbled together and more like a big DLC ​​to its direct predecessor. Could history now repeat itself? According to an insider, the main developer of Call of Duty 2025 has not yet been determined!

Do fans of the franchise have to worry about the new Call of Duty scheduled for 2025? Based on recent experiences with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III in the fall of last year, perhaps yes, because according to a renowned insider, the game after next in the long-standing successful series does not yet have a main developer – and the release is only around 20 months away.

In November last year, Bloomberg reported that the development of Modern Warfare III had to proceed quite quickly. Sledgehammer Games only had 16 months to complete the somewhat controversial game. Fans blamed this on the manageable single player and a multiplayer that relied exclusively on remakes of maps from 2009’s Modern Warfare 2.

A Sledgehammer Games executive later contradicted this report and emphasized that the studio had actually been working on Modern Warfare III for years. The numerous reports that a large DLC was originally planned for the previously released Modern Warfare 2 in 2022 still leave a bad aftertaste.

This year everything is supposed to get better again with Call of Duty: Black Ops Gulf War from Treyarch and a real new Call of Duty with fresh and new content will appear, but the situation around Call of Duty 2025 is apparently much less clear. The well-informed and reliable insider Tom Henderson now emphasizes that the series after next does not yet have a main developer – and fans may therefore fear another rather modest start like that of Modern Warfare III.

Actually, according to Henderson, Sledgehammer Games should have taken over the lead work on Call of Duty 2025 again, but after Modern Warfare III was received more modestly and more than a second year of Modern Warfare 2 felt like an independent new game, Sledgehammer was apparently grateful rejected as far as Call of Duty 2025 is concerned. A similar fate to the current one was feared, so that this title would have felt more like a “year 2” to Call of Duty 2024.

Henderson further explains that High Moon Studios was once also in discussion for the main work on Call of Duty 2025, but now assumes that after this year’s part, Treyarch will also take on this responsibility for the one that will be released next year. If High Moon Studios had been chosen, it would have been special in that it would have been the fourth studio alongside Sledgehammer, Infinity Ward and Treyarch to spearhead work on a full-fledged Call of Duty game. Infinity Ward is already working on Call of Duty 2026.