Treyarch playing the blame game

Posted on 01. Feb, 2011 by in Games, News

It’s no secret that black ops has seen quite a bit of negative criticism especially on PS3 and rightfully so. Since day one, the game was ‘Broken’ on so many different levels that it alienated from its core group of supporters. The same can be said for pc gamers as well as some xbox 360 gamers although the game is noticeably better on XBL. However, Treyarch seems as if they want to turn the blame onto their customers instead of fixing problems that exist in the game itself.

According to Treyarch, “Developers who try new things are being burned by “pundits” and “angry entitled fans”. Even worse though is what community manager Josh Olin believes, that more and more gamers seem to forget what the industry is all about: creativity.

“It’s a creative industry – the most creative form of entertainment in existence,” Olin told Nowgamer. “Too many developers who try new things are getting burned by “pundits” and angry entitled fans who look to be contrarian, sometimes simply for the sake of being contrarian.

“The only thing this attitude aims to achieve is stunt that creativity and innovation even further, which is something that no rational gamer looking to be entertained would want to do.”

Now I’m sorry for being blunt, but what exactly is creative and/or innovative about call of duty games to begin with? They all run on the same kind of story as all FPS games have run on since the beginning of FPS games. The only creative things is COD fans really want is new maps, and different modes to try out, and there’s nothing really creative about that, just simplicity.

I’m sorry but it’s statements like the ones above that make me sick in this day of age in gaming. I just hate the attitude where developers think they’re God and try to turn the blame on ungrateful gamers. I’m sorry but from what I know, we, the gamers pay the money and we are in fact God being your customers. Treyarch deserve all the bad publicity they get for shipping a game that was not properly tested and refusing to fix the problems but instead blame everyone else, but themselves.

I truly hope that in future, when a Treyarch COD is released, gamers vote with their wallets by not buying a single copy. It’s one thing to sell us something that doesn’t work correctly, but it’s crossing the line when you put the blame on everyone else. Source

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