As the holiday season approaches video game studios are pumping
out their new investments. Enter Call of Duty: Ghost by Activision, which
as of now has sold more than $1 billion on its first day out. Now there is
impressive no matter how you look at it. However, being the big franchise that Call
of Duty is, it must put a lot of pressure on a company to produce a high quality
game.
It is hard to believe that a massive company like Activision cannot
spend more time and money to produce a game that does not reuse the same
elements from previous versions. This type of trend appears to be a growing
trend in the industry as well. Electronic Arts has not only reused parts of a
video game, they have released older versions of games with new names. The name
in question is Fifa 14, which is a re-skinned version of Fifa 13 for the Wii
system. That’s not all however; Fifi 13 is just a re-skinned version of the
original Fifa game that was released on the Wii. That’s the same game being re-released
three times in a row.
Is this what we come to expect from video game developers?
Consumers pump billions of dollars into their games through sales each year,
and this is how they repay them. Consumers should be outraged at this behavior and not tolerate it any longer. I fear that is this trend continues the video
game industry will head into another collapse, but with a much greater impact.
So this is where the indie developers need to step in and take control of the industry.
They are truly the future of video game development.
Check out the side by side comparison of Call of Duty: Ghost and Modern Warfare 2 below.
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