Launched in November, Call of Duty: Vanguard was the worst Call of Duty game of the last 14 years, with a decrease of nearly 40 percent in digital and physical sales compared to the previous game of the series, Black Ops Cold War.

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Activison Blizzard, in its last annual earnings report, attributed the reason for the failure of Call of Duty: Vanguard to the period of the game. Saying that "the game did not meet our expectations," the company admitted that the disappointing sales performance was due to Vanguard's World War II themed.

# We couldn't offer as much innovation as we wanted

Explaining that the game's World War II environment did not resonate with some of our community, Activision said, "We could not offer as much innovation in the premium game as we would like." he said.

Underlining that they will not repeat the mistakes they made in Vanguard (it was in a bad time and lack of innovation) in the next Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game, which is expected to be released towards the end of this year.

# Activision shared the following information:

Currently there are over 3,000 people working on the franchise. We're working on the most ambitious plan in Call of Duty history, with a return to the Modern Warfare environment that gave us our most successful Call of Duty title yet.

Call of Duty: WWII, which launched worldwide in 2017, was also World War II themed, and the game managed to earn $ 500 million in its three-day opening weekend. Activision boasted that WWII, whose total sales exceeded $1 billion, was in demand many times more than Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare.