In a court filing reviewed by Game File that has not been previously reported, Patrick Kelly, Activision’s current head of creative on the Call of Duty franchise, said that three Call of Duty games, released between 2015 and 2020, cost $450-700 million to make.

Black Ops III (2015): “Treyarch developed the game over three years with a creative team of hundreds of people, and invested over $450 million in development costs over the game’s lifecycle.” (Kelly also discloses that it has sold 43 million copies.)

Modern Warfare (2019): “Infinity Ward developed the game over several years and has spent over $640 million in development costs throughout the game’s lifecycle.” (41 million copies sold)

Black Ops Cold War (2020): “Treyarch and Raven Software took years to create the game with a team of hundreds of creatives. They ultimately spent over $700 million in development costs over the game’s lifecycle.” (30 million copies sold)

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 38 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Those look like military industrial complex budget numbers.

I try not to let my kids play games that normalize war, ever since my nephew enlisted out of a sense of duty - after playing a lot of CoD.

Enlisting basically ruined his life. His choice to enlist interrupted his successful small business venture and left him with PTSD.

[–] Valencia@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)

So like what games do you ban? Just modern shooters? Just for an alternate take, my parents were crazy Christians and would only buy me shit like this game. I'll tell you what, playing that game did not make me more interested in religion and way more interested in call of duty 4. Not saying that's what you're doing, but just that some kind of understanding between you guys is key.

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did that Bible game include gameplay around setting up a "church" that was actually a political donation front to promote political parties that would limit free access to healthcare for the population (under the auspices of lower taxes and "market driven solutions to healthcare")?

Or was the gameplay lazy and uninspired?

[–] Valencia@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably almost been like 20 years from when I last played it, but I don't think the game was that bad honestly. From what I remember it was more like a who wants to be a millionaire crossover with mario party. Answer who did Cain violently kill in the first pages of the bible and then play like a minigame with go karts or something. But since I had fusion frenzy, believe it or not the bible game did not see much game time in my xbox lol

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was hoping for a more simulator/tycoon game. 😀

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