The Monday letters page asks whether datamining is ruing the fun of game announcements, as a reader tries to imagine Xbox without Microsoft. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.
uk War without end Now that we know Call Of Duty : Black Ops 6 will be out this year we’re going to have leaks for months on end until it’s released in the autumn and the whole thing starts again. Then in January we’ll find out it was the first or second most successful game of the year, just like always. So.
.. will this ever stop? Microsoft were hinting they might put a halt to yearly releases before they bought Activision but naturally that’s all stopped now that it’s one of Xbox’s main sources of money.
But ignoring all that, is there anything that will ever put a dent in Call Of Duty’s popularity? So that it’s not always one of the biggest games of the year? Personally, I don’t see it. If something as bad as Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t put people off then nothing will. And while playing soldiers is, in theory, something easy to copy nobody’s managed it in the last 20-odd years and every year Call Of Duty is massive the mountain to climb gets bigger and bigger.
I truly think Call Of Duty will still be around in another 20 years, and just as big as ever. Campbell Data leak Personally, I agree with the idea that datamining, and most leaks in general, ruin the fun for fans but I put the blame for this entirely at the feet of publishers. For one thing, .