But all you have done since launch is complain. Putting in the hours doesn't make it worth the cost. How much fun you have makes it worth it.I can only think of 2 games that probably release this year that would even be in the conversation for maybe putting a dent in COD. xDefiant and the Finals. Both of those are arena/hero shooters that aren't even quite the same. Unless I'm missing something obvious, there's nothing to really push the next COD game hard.
Each year I play the open beta and make up my mind. I saw all the flaws going into this game, but I've still put in a ton of time and gotten my $$$ worth. The game could be so much better with some simple changes, but yeah, it is made for the masses, and a few angry Reddit posts and Youtube rants isn't going to change the billions of dollars they make off this game.
I simply don't get my blood pressure up over it, because I know I'm not going to get a billion dollar industry to change because of me. Enjoy the game for what it is, or move on to something else.
I played this game a bit this weekend, all of it in Invasion and I had a lot of fun. I'm going for some camo challenges now that I have every gun leveled up.
The one thing I'm interested in seeing is how no SBMM in casual works for xDefiant. I think that's going to be an interesting test to see what happens with pure connection based MM. I have a funny feeling it isn't going to do what people think. Larger scale games can get away without it (BF) as the larger counts can even out more often, but a small, competitive shooter? I could see that being a hot mess. We'll see though. Maybe it does work.
It doesn't seem like you had much fun.
But yeah, not seein much on the shooter frot except Xdefiant & Finals. Maybe some of Playstations' unannounced multiplayer games will give a good FPS.