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]
Contest:
8:23 AM on 12.12.2008
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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.
But then, I guess that's the bonus with being your own publisher and not having to crank out yearly sequels.