Team Aurora

Over the past few decades the game industry has really changed; It went from being something that was almost impossible to get into, to something that just about anyone can enter. However, this has had very positive and negative effects on the industry. With the amount of competing companies trying to make a game that will sell, there are a lot less risks being taken. When a company hits it big, they will beat that series till it dies. The Call of Duty series is barely even created by the people that originally made it. That’s because a bigger company, Activision, saw the cash cow in buying an existing franchise and trying to milk it for all it’s worth by dividing the work upon as many companies as possible to turn out more games in less time. The games have made over $3 billion, and that’s not including all the profit off of merchandise – posters, action figures, pajamas, etc. You cannot expect a company to create something that sells and not stick with it, many games have sequels. But what is wrong in this picture is that the vision of the game and the people behind it has changed entirely. Infinity Ward hasn’t even created half of the games that have come out under the Call of Duty title, and the last title they worked on, Modern Warfare 3, they didn’t even get to make it by themselves; Sledgehammer Games was hired by Activision to work on the game too. The game needs to be left in the hands of the people who are passionate about it, and that is where indie games come in.

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