Warzone It’s a name we all have attached to call of duty because it is his paw battle royalethe one that Activision put in the hands of the players to try to compete with the greats of the genre as Fortnite either pubg and that it has gone through different phases. Now, with version 2.0, the North Americans are getting further and further away from success.
And it is necessary to remember that, with the launch of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 last year, we were promised the first big revision of the battle royale. From the first generation, we would go to a kind of season two with a new map and more resources with which to have fun in battles against other players. But the result ended up being a disaster.
It has players, but fewer and fewer
We are not going to say that Warzone 2.0 Right now it is a failure that nobody plays, because it is not like that, but it does the curve of those who are still active is significant, which continues to decline and in this month of May it has once again marked a new minimum that is around 85,000, and with a trend that is, surely, what worries Activision the most at this moment.
And it is that as you can see in the graph that you have just above, on Steam β which is one of the places where the competitive game of call of dutyβ, The thing marks a clear trend that does not seem to improve in the near future, unless Activision has a crash plan that tells us about news, gifts, competitions and even improvements within Warzone 2.0.
And it is that as we tend to always listen to those who are subject to this tyranny of data, It’s the trend that really alarms fans, who see how fewer are left every day, both in accumulated number of participants in the game games and in peaks that are concentrated at a precise moment of the day or week. It is there where the shortcomings of a game that was born with many problems are being revealed.
Fatigue or Activision errors?
Nobody really knows what happened to Warzone 2.0 for sure though if we have to opt for a theory, we will mix elements from here and there. For example, it is clear that Activision’s development has been hampered by launch problems, which have made players desperate to the point of making them give up, because it did not seem that the bugs were ever going to be fixed.
But we can’t ignore the competition that exists in that specific segment of the FPS in first person and battle royalewhere a Fortnite that does not give up its mania for being the most popular in the world, pursued by other alternatives such as pubg and even the CS:GO, Valorant and Overwatch 2 that, despite not being the three all against all but rather a team fight, scratch something of what Warzone 2.0 could want.
In short, luckily for everyone, “players are not stupid” -as they said in that advert-, and If you don’t give them a well-finished product that works and doesn’t cause problems, they leave. And that’s the best way to educate companies so they don’t think they can do whatever they want with us. Although what they are going to give us is free and we can play it without dropping a euro.
