There's a colossal market of people that only ever play one sports game and a CoD and/or Battlefield a year, and then spice it up with the GTA games and maybe an Asssassin's Creed now and then. Their tastes aren't mine, so I couldn't tell you when they've had enough, but they're freaking everywhere. I doesn't matter one bit what metacritic score the WW2 game has, because those people know what they like and where to get it. It's just not reflected in online gaming communities because people here are enthusiastic enough about video games to probably play a bit more than only that stuff.
It makes sense to me if the more fantastical CoDs don't do as well, because what all of these have in common is that they're pretty mundane settings. The most scifi whenever CoD isn't out in space is Assassin's Creed, and that's just a framework for putting you into historically accurate settings.
I've been in conversations a few times lately where relative strangers bring up video games, and every time they did it was either to talk about Destiny 1 or to complain about how CoD got too crazy with the future robot stuff. They really are everywhere, and it's the reason why I'm not surprised stuff like CoD WWII sells so well.
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