As the battle royale craze settles and the top games in the genre retain their popularity, games like Apex Legends and Fortnite have maintained their playerbase over time. A combination of constant updates, as well as refining the meta (for the most part) to a tight gameplay experience, has given the most popular battle royale games proper staying power. However, for a previously very popular battle royale game, Call of Duty: Warzone has fallen off quite a bit in comparison to its launch popularity. That's not to inherently disparage Raven Software's take on the battle royale genre, but it is important to point out the multiple contributing factors to Warzone's declining popularity.
The Call of Duty fanbase has been vocal about the many technical issues that have plagued the game since launch. Many of the most prominent issues, like weapons disappearing/not functioning correctly, cosmetic bugs causing players to go invisible, game freezes, and other technical problems have cropped up during the Activision Blizzard walkouts and Raven Software employee strike. While the strike has concluded as ABK employees seek to unionize, the game's seen some major updates and bug fixes. However, with a new iteration of Call of Duty: Warzone on the way in 2022 by Infinity Ward, some things need to change for Warzone to regain battle royale's top spot.
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Even as recent as this week, another weapon in Call of Duty: Warzone's weapon pool has been unintentionally overtuned, making the PPSh-41 a new top-tier SMG. Even though Raven Software has been quick to respond to these issues in the past, updates unintentionally buffing weapons has been a consistent story for Call of
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