Like alot of people have stated countless times, most people do not hate CoD, but they DO hate the buisness practices behind it, and those are legitimate things to hate, since they cemented alot of the bad things of this gen.
But CoD? well they are fine I guess, not my kind of games on average, but people seem to enjoy them, fine by me.
What I do not find fine:
Teams working on nothing but CoD, causing the ip to delude, and that much faster with the lack of progression from the coders, While not too apperrent at first (CoD3, WaW) the rst of the CoD games really did feel like expansion packs.
The buisness practice of buying mappacks were somewhat of a letdown at best aswell, I would not have minded it if they were larger, and more spread out, CoD pretty much went on the forefront with taking out new maps in updates, and worse yet, showed that alot of people will buy without question, small mappacks for an near insane premium.
Koticks "Taking the fun out of making games" were a direct reflection on how th CoD games were and likely still are made, a horrible work envioment.
As a follwo up to the above, the whole situation with the heads of IW getting fired, which were shady at best.
Basicly you could feel how the CoD series had become sweatshop items, made at a really low cost, and sold for alot. Them feeling like expansion packs are fine by me, I tend to like exp packs (and yeah, exp packs tend to have atleast 1/2- 1-1 ratio of content of the base game, so they do fit quite well into that mold), so I found the price some insulting. But more then anything else, I dislike CoD, not because of CoD, but because it felt victim to the new standard of Publishers and devs.
No love for gaming, maximising profit, and so againt evolution of a series (remember Activision really disliked how CoD4 came along, till they found out it was popular).
People will counterpoint that "gaming is a buisness". Yeah but it is also a creative process, like Books movies and music. They all need experimentation, and pieces that are ment to drive the standard farwards, if all focused on cashflow, all the above industries would crumble and die because they would not evolve (alot of the most importantt movies in the world, were not critically well recived, imagine if they had been shot down due to the outlook of poor cashflow).
And that is pretty much the direction Activision paved for all to follow, They led alot of Publishers to the mindset ofyearly rehashes insanely high primiums, and low risk (Activision does not have alot of IPs in play, they pretty much milk one or two at a time, till death). (examples of followers, Capcom, Ubisoft, Microsoft).
So CoD seem to catch alot of flak, not due to the games themself, but what went on behind the scenes. On a sidenote, BlOPS2 looks differnet, I won't say anything pro or con the game till it is out, but sound like the departure many people wanted, an evolution of the series, not a repetition.
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