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Not shocked at the lack of SP. Requires huge investment and effort and at this point I'd imagine the overwhelmingly majority either don't make it past the first level or even attempt the campaign in recent titles.

I like COD campaigns, Infinite Warfare was great, WW2 was a bit dull but entertaining enough all the same. I've always seen them as SP games as much as MP.

However, that said, Black Ops 3 was an absolute disaster of a campaign.

It'll naturally get some backlash given it's one of the most popular games in the world but I don't think they need to be overly concerned. Games like Overwatch and Rainbow Six don't have SP either and it's not been any barrier to enormous success.

I would still prefer a campaign obviously but even anecdotally, all my friends own WW2 but I'm the only one to have played the campaign. Was the same for Black Ops 3. Even looking at the achievements for Infinite Warfare at the time I played that, the very low percentage of people who had achievements for completing campaign missions was very surprising. I think for some of the later missions it was like 5% or something.

They probably figured that the huge time, effort and money required to create an AAA campaign was not giving them returns...and they are probably right ultimately. Most people who'll grumble about a lack of SP will still buy the game. The actual 'lost revenue' is likely small/inconsequential in the larger picture.

While I appreciate there are people whose internet is terrible and not great for online gaming, there are very few people in the modern age with current generation machines whose consoles are literally not ever connected to the internet so I would say the trophy/achievement figures are a reasonably indicator.

Jesus, that graph that was posted. Black Ops 3 - 4% campaign rate. Not surprised, given how abysmal it was, but that's still gotta hurt considering the resources that would've been put into it. Still can't understand what they were doing putting such an off-the-wall abstract, surrealist, convoluted narrative into a Call of Duty game.

It's the only COD campaign I've never finished going right back to the original game. I've pretty much enjoyed them all otherwise to varying degrees. Never really liked Zombies mode myself though at all.