Call of Duty’s<\/em> content drought, which only just recently turned a month old, is turning more and more players of Warzone<\/em> against the game that once dominated the space.<\/p>
In a Jan. 12 Reddit thread<\/a>, Warzone <\/a><\/em>players gathered together to discuss what’s gone wrong with CoD’s <\/em>battle royale, framed around a screenshot that showed Warzone <\/em>with 27,000 viewers on Twitch, dwarfed by Marvel Rivals’ 204,000.<\/p>
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Most interestingly, and perhaps troublingly for CoD<\/em>, is that the viewership on Rivals<\/em> often features several notable streamers who have found or built their success off of Warzone<\/em>. Top CoD<\/em> players like Scump<\/a>, TeePee, Nadeshot, and others have all been regularly streaming Marvel’s hero shooter. And you can bet everyday gamers have been doing the same, too.<\/p>
Is CoD<\/em> in trouble of losing some of its players to other games? Sure. But if anything has proven consistently correct the past two decades, it’s that CoD <\/em>players enjoy CoD<\/em> and will come back to CoD,<\/em> regardless of the state of the game. But its ongoing cheating issues<\/a> and server problems may just continue to slant the pattern of new players vs. those moving on.<\/p>
“The exodus first and foremost comes from cheaters, bugs, and desync, ignored by Activision,” one player said<\/a> in the thread. “If these were not there, we all would still be playing the game, bitching at EOMM (engagement-optimized matchmaking), but playing.”<\/p>
