Is this the end for Call of Duty?
That’s right,Farming Simulator 17, a game about being a modern farmer and driving expensive tractors is currently destroying the just-releasedCall of Duty: Infinite Warfareon Steam, at least numbers wise. According toSteam’s own stats,Farming Simulator 17is number 23 on the top 100 games list (at the time of writing) with 26,044 players today, whileInfinite Warfareis number 36 with over 10,000 less at 15,436 players. Obviously not a terrible debut for most games, but pretty bad for one of the world’s most popular series, at least on PC.
While some may rush to celebrate this being the death knell forCoD, there are a few potential reasons for this. For one,Farming Simulatorhas been out for nearly two weeks and costs $25 less.Infinite Warfareis also for sale on the Windows 10 Store, whichcan’t play with the Steam versionof the game for some reason.
Reviews forFarming Simulator 17are “very positive” with over 1600 reviews on Steam, meanwhileCoD: IWis mixed with over 2500 reviews with ~1400 of them positive and ~1200 of them negative. Perhaps consumers are just starting to trust user reviews a bit more than critics at this point? I mean,CoDhas a metacritic rating of 81versus the70 rating forFarming Simulator.Or maybe people jumped ship for one of EA’s arguably superior recent offerings ofBattlefield 1andTitanfall 2, both of which were critically acclaimed. Hard to tell.
There have been complaints from PC players for some time saying thatCall of Dutyis catering to console gamers now, withfeatures missing from recent iterations. Seems likeCoDfans have finally followed through with their threats to boycott the series,unlike the last time they threatened that.
The only other thing I can think of is that farming is really fucking fun. I mean, it is important enough to fuck up my sleep schedule twice a year with daylight savings time, so there must be something to it, right? (Jeditor’s note: Fuck daylight savings time, farmers have lights on their tractors, it’s doing them no favors.)
Personally? I’d rather be playingOwlboyagain.It is so fucking good guys. So fucking good.
