Longer Call of Duty Life Cycles Could Lead To Post-Launch Campaign Content

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Call of Duty as a franchise has been a consistently dominant force among the popular first-person shooter genre for some time, but now the franchise seems to moving towards longer life-cycles and campaigns. Finding its roots all the way back in 2004, CoD has constantly adjusted its core formula over many years in its efforts to rise to the top of the industry, and this is the latest change.

Ever since its inception, Call of Duty has been typified by consistent annual releases, creating a predictable life cycle for franchise installments that fostered consistent and endless content. That being said, it is reported that Call of Duty is finally set to move away from this annual release formula, and the resultantly longer game life cycles could provide a huge opportunity for post-launch campaign DLC.

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Reports of Call of Duty breaking its annual release formula came earlier this year, with many pointing to the weaker sales of Call of Duty Vanguard as being the catalyst for this change. The upcoming Modern Warfare 2 will supposedly be the first Call of Duty title to have a two-year life cycle, with no Call of Duty set to release in 2023.

The intended scale of Modern Warfare 2 is already obvious due to the title's aim to build on the expectations set by its 2019 predecessor, with the game also set to release alongside a sequel to the massively popular battle royale Call of Duty Warzone. With the added knowledge that the upcoming title is set to have two years in which it will have to keep fans occupied, Activision could further break the norms of the mega-franchise by implementing post-launch DLC to the game's campaign mode.

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