As part of the Season 05 blog post for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone, Activision has confirmed that a full reveal for this year’s game is coming during the season, which kicks off on August 2nd.
“Drop into Call of Duty: Warzone to experience the worldwide reveal for Call of Duty 2023 in a limited-time event. Join the ranks of Shadow Company to take on Konni forces and secure the chemical weapon threat before it’s too late. Stay tuned to Call of Duty channels for more details about the upcoming reveal.”
Pretty much the same situation as Vanguard, Sledgehammer is getting screwed with not nearly enough time. I expect it to be pretty rough at launch tbh, gonna probably pick it up with a discount a few seasons in.
Seriously: MW2 was rough for more than half a year and each season refresh brings back bugs already fixed. Vanguard is only two years away and could itself only have around two years of serious development time since it used the same engine as MW 2019, while Cold War used Treyarch‘s own stream. Even if Sledgehammer started development right after Vanguard they‘d only have two years of development time, but early rumors of CoD 2023 just being a larger live service update for MW2, instead of a new game point towards CoD 2023 using the same engine as MW2. In this case the major development time would have been what? A year? Besides Blizzard enshittifying their first solid release in years for a few MTX bucks right now, CoD 2023 feels like the next thing to crash and burn like Vanguard. Bobby is driving the whole company into the ground and I feel like the acquisition cannot come fast enough for CoD to have any chance of long term survival.