Raven Software Teases Major Call of Duty: Warzone Prestige System Rework

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Call of Duty: Warzone, much like the mainline entries in the series, features a prestige leveling system. However, Call of Duty: Warzone fans have been quite down on the approach the game takes to player progression, making some recent comments from Raven Software promising.

Call of Duty: Warzone’s prestige system is shared across all the modern titles, allowing gamers to level up regardless of the game that they are choosing to play. While this sounds excellent on paper, there are downsides to the format, such as the segmented prestiging caused by the seasonal style. Every season, players will get access to three or four prestiges, with gamers needing to play constantly to prestige. With no endgame in sight, many fans miss the old style of a final level to grind toward.

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With games like Deep Rock Galactic handling prestige-like systems better, it could not be any more apparent that change is needed. Fortunately, Raven Software seems to agree with the Call of Duty community’s criticisms about prestiging, as developers from the studio responded to FaZe Swagg’s criticism in a recent Q&A. According to the streamer, “there’s no reason to want to level up” since prestiges keep coming and there is no end goal to reach, with gamers needing to wait for a new Season to start before they can keep leveling up.

According to Raven Software, this criticism is “totally fair,” with the developer admitting that the live service style of the new prestige system has damaged gamers’ interest in going through the ranks. While the developer does point out that prestiging is less intimidating now since everyone is “at the same starting point” when ranks get reset at the start of a