Report: Modern Warfare 3 devs complain of crunch, rushed development
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was developed in just 16 months with some periods of crunch and communications issues between developer Sledgehammer Games and Modern Warfare creator Infinity Ward.
That's according to a Bloomberg report citing several anonymous members of the development team, who said the game was built in less than half the time – usually a three-year cycle – as previous Call of Duty games.
In fact, this is said to have had the shortest development time for a Call of Duty game in several years.
It's also claimed they worked nights and weekends to finish the game in time for its launch today.
Some developers said they felt betrayed because they were promised they would not face another shortened development cycle after the struggles of their previous project, Call of Duty: Vanguard, which was also built under constrained conditions.
As has been previously reported, the project is said to have started as an expansion to 2022's Modern Warfare 2 to fill the gap when the next full Call of Duty was said to be delayed into 2024.
An Activision spokesperson denied Modern Warfare 3 was ever an expansion, stating that it was envisaged as a "premium game" from the beginning.
However, Bloomberg cites more than a dozen current and former Call of Duty developers who say this is not what they were told.
Some were informed directly this title would be an expansion, while others say it was left ambiguous at first, but all said they believed it to be an expansion until much later into development.
The game was reportedly planned as a smaller-scale expansion set solely in Mexico to make it easier to complete within the shorter development
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