That call of Duty Machine can never stop. It must go on endlessly, through lawsuits, controversies and layoffs. Quitting would mean…well, we don’t know because it never did. And to keep the machine running, Activision now has over 3,000 human souls working tirelessly on the publisher’s largest and most successful video game franchise.
When discovered by TweakTown at Activision Annual report to investorsthe publisher explains that more than 3,000 people are now working on the popular military shooter franchise. This corresponds to around 31% of the total number of around 9,800 employees currently employed. Even wilder, that means almost half of the 6,800 or so developers currently working for Activision are used to create the call of Duty machine is running. So many bodies were sacrificed to the altar of hit tokens and weapon skins.
It’s not surprising to hear that Activision is turning on so many people call of Duty. The franchise has remained one of the few reliably successful games, regularly selling millions of copies and grossing billions of dollars each year. Last year, the publisher even moved its Toys For Bob studio out of development Crash Bandicoot games too turn it into another support studio for Call of Duty Warzone. Since this change, every Activision studio seems to have evolved in some way Call from Duty content or support war zone-Similar projects.
In the same annual report, Activision says it is “working on its most ambitious plan in a long time call of Duty history” and that she hopes to return super popular Modern Warfare series will help him recover from last year’s slump Call of Duty Vanguard. This entry underperformed according to Activision, a rare example of the machine stalling. Activision blamed the World War II setting for this vanguard for its less than stellar sales, which is an odd excuse that seems to ignore Miscellaneous big incident that happened last year.
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last July, Allegations of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination the company became public following an investigation and lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Call of Duty: Vanguard was not officially unveiled by Augustmuch later in the year than usual for the series, and the response from players and critics has been more muted than in the past, in large part as a result Many were unsure how to respond the next big ad campaign and the next video game to be released by a company accused of years of worker abuse.
Then, late last year, shortly after vanguard was published, The Wall Street Magazine published a report directly implies a Call from Duty Executive in alleged misconduct in the company. All of this has done enough damage to the company to hurt its value and allow Microsoft to jump in and Start by buying out the publisher.
So it seems now more than ever, Activision needs this call of Duty Keeping the machine running, even if it means throwing everyone and their families at the machine. call of Duty can not stop.
