Name of Obligation Builders Offended Over Marketing campaign Joke at The Sport Awards

Varied Name of Obligation builders are upset over a joke made by Christopher Decide at The Sport Awards relating to the size of Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III‘s marketing campaign.

Throughout final evening’s Sport Awards, Decide — who voiced Kratos in God of Battle and the following sequel God of Battle Ragnarök — joked that his notorious acceptance speech final yr was longer than Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare III’s marketing campaign.

Whereas many within the viewers laughed on the joke, present and former builders on-line weren’t too comfortable. Varied builders (by way of CharlieIntel) took to Twitter to share their distaste with the joke, whereas some additionally took photographs on the God of Battle franchise for its gross sales and engagement in comparison with Name of Obligation.

Builders really feel damage by the joke at their expense

“‘Humorous’ however yeah the metrics that [Call of Duty] completely destroys the entire God of Battle video games (most likely mixed [to be honest]) in can also be equally laughable (if no more),” learn one builders tweet. One other famous that God of Battle has “brief consumer engagement” as soon as the sport is consumed, whereas one other simply lamented the truth that they had been mocked by a peer on the awards.

“Truthfully, as [Call of Duty] builders, we’ve heard manner worse. However we don’t anticipate it from a peer, at an occasion that speculated to be celebrating this years achievements in gaming. Particularly with all the knowledge that was leaked about it’s improvement,” stated one nameless developer.

The Trendy Warfare III marketing campaign was mocked upon its launch, because it appears to have the ability to be accomplished in solely round 3-4 hours, a surprisingly low quantity in comparison with previous years.

Whereas Name of Obligation campaigns are usually not notoriously lengthy, they often last as long as round 8-10 hours to finish. The earlier entry within the sequence, Name of Obligation: Trendy Warfare II, took round eight hours to beat, in accordance with the sport monitoring web site HowLongToBeat.