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Infinity Ward done with DLC for Call of Duty 4 photo

With Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War blowing up store shelves, and Activision already confirming the inevitable 2009 first-person follow up, this comes as no surprise -- Infinity Ward isn't working on any new content for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Responding to users on the Xbox.com forums, Community Manager Robert Bowling breaks it down, citing the main reason as simply not having the resources. 

"Every level designer/texture artist/environmental artist/etc. working on a new map for a previous game is one less working on a map for a future game," he says. 

He mentions that the perfect scenario would be to ship with a ton of maps, and then release a lot of content for free. He says that "in a realistic development environment, it's near impossible," using Criterion (and their Burnout Paradise DLC) as an exception joking that they have "magical DLC fairies."

Their future plans? To have "a polished/stacked game at launch and a dedicated team for DLC post-launch while everyone else looks towards the future."

Hey, that sounds a lot like Criterion's "magical DLC fairy" set-up. Can you imagine an Infinity Ward-developed Call of Duty game with Burnout Paradise-style DLC support? Wake me up -- I must be dreaming.

[Via Gamertag Radio]








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Swizzler121's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 09:17
Swizzler121
that's... kinda to point of a SDK... why does no one realize this? neway if COD6 has a SDK and its decent i'm just gonna stick with that one, i'm tired of activision pulling strings where they need not pulled...
goodgamer77's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 10:12
goodgamer77
Yes, you are dreaming.
Noah's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 11:11
Noah
Why?
You'd think they'd wait until no one played it any more before crushing everyone's dreams. Hasn't this game been on the top of XBL for over a year, and just recently slipped...remaining in the top 10 still?

I'm just pissed because I actually just bought COD4 last week and bought the map pack.
darknessgp's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 11:40
darknessgp
wait, they released DLC for CoD4? I just seem to remember a map pack... one.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 11:42
Holyetheline
He makes a good point.
bobyoko's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 11:44
bobyoko
hey, it's another franchise that they're going to milk dry. i hope the industry crashes again.
diablo8001's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 12:02
diablo8001
Makes it sound like they released a bunch of stuff. We got one map pack! Whatever happened to the new playlists that were promised to be "almost out the door"? I demand free stuff.
ZServ's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 12:02
ZServ
it's because of idiots who bought call of duty shitty game at war, yupyup.
aaronf's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 12:06
aaronf
@darknessgp: That was all they ever released. One map pack.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 12:44
vexed alex
It's sad to see developers abandoning their game like this. CoD4 never had that many DLC maps to begin with.
Volomon's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 12:51
Volomon
What a bunch of lies, they could easily pack up community maps that were developed by users as part of a contest pay them nothing and throw it down as a DLC.
RJG's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/12/2008 15:27
RJG
Hey Nick, that game you're dreaming about? TF2 on the PC. Valve don't have magical DLC fairies, they just have a kickass dev team, and the best part is they do it for free. And everytime they do, sales for TF2 spike.

But then, I guess that's the bonus with being your own publisher and not having to crank out yearly sequels.
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