Overcoming 60 million players, Call of Duty: Warzone is rising to the throne?

With 62.7 million users, will Call of Duty: Warzone set a new record in capturing the longest position of the new king of the Battle Royale genre?

Warzone is the new survival mode of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , released by Activision as a standalone game on March 10, now officially the hottest survival game in the world. Starting with 6 million players in the first 24 hours, 15 million after 4 days, 30 million after 10 days, 50 million after 1 month, and now more than 60 million after less than 2 months, Call of Duty: Warzone is proves the attraction and the overwhelming overwhelming in the genre of survival game, even on par with the record of the newly launched Apex Legends phenomenon .

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In the time when the survival game market was almost saturated, what factors helped Call of Duty: Warzone successfully conquer Battle Royale ? Is it this time that Warzone will avoid the trails of 'going up and down quickly' of Apex Legends?

The success of Call of Duty: Warzone comes from having enough time, favorable conditions, and peace

Warzone has chosen a better launch time, when PUBG was 'out of cure', Apex Legends faded after being turned away from the community and Fortnite has passed the golden age, constantly declining players. . The Battle Royale community is in need of a new wind than ever before. Not to mention the March time when the Covid epidemic was booming, the whole world at home and the ideal launch time for new titles to keep gamers entertained in such spare time.

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Review Call of Duty: Warzone - Live in a hurry, die . continuously!

Infinity Ward cleverly used the foundation of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to create a familiar but still new Warzone.

The advantage of Warzone comes from the billion-dollar brand Call of Duty, which has been standing for decades in the AAA blockbuster game category.In addition, the CoD series, which has strong competitive advantages, has competed with EA's Battlefield very fiercely. many years now. The advantage of Call of Duty: Warzone is obvious when it has its own name and market since its debut. In fact, Warzone's sharp graphics quality surpasses all existing Battle Royale games on the market. CoD is both familiar and strange in the gameplay of Warzone, creating a unique and creative combination, bringing the feeling of `` hands '' higher than the somewhat sluggish gameplay in other survival games. At the same time, the COD weapons system or the ability to revive with their own skills after death are the only attractions in Warzone.

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Besides, the positive moves in fighting hack / cheat is also one of the advantages of Warzone. Hundreds of thousands of accounts using cheat tools have been permanently banned as well as daring anti-hacking mechanisms that put fraudsters into a match are moves that have received positive responses from the community. Although it has not been able to handle it thoroughly, it can be said that Warzone is still one of the cleanest survival shooting games currently available.

Considering the factor of peace, Warzone did not even need a headline PR, the release date is exactly the same as the announcement of an updated version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Just that alone will attract up to 30 million players after 10 days of opening, enough to prove the community power of blockbuster COD.

Is it possible to avoid the trail of Apex Legends?

Warzone has a chance, but will face extremely difficult challenges that need to be addressed. Although Activision is determined to fight cheating, it is not difficult to see that the hack / cheat problem is still increasing in the game, Warzone has recently been a bit confused when the system has punished a lot. Genuine players cause a lot of frustration for the community. We all know that one of the heavy causes of PUBG or Apex Legends' dilemma is also caused by hack / cheat and constant game bugs.

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Another limitation of Warzone is that although it is released for free, gamers who want to unlock powerful fire guns like RAM-7, Grauss 5.56 . will have to buy the game package for $ 59.99. Because the requirement of RAM-7 is to complete 25 victories in different modes (Warzone and Plunder only count as 2). In addition, if gamers want to collect blueprints, they will have to complete the task requirements from the story mode, co-op to multiplayer modes like Search and Destroy. and Team Deathmath. Not to mention the rare items that gamers can only earn when they reach the level of battle passes. The $ 60 payment, or online payment system, will still be a major barrier to the majority of gamers in the developing region of the world, including Vietnam.

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Is Call of Duty: Warzone worth the long-term investment?

It is attractive, but if you have to pay a fee like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019, will gamers be willing to pay for Warzone?

Finally, from the business philosophy of Call of Duty , a new version at the end of each year, it is also synonymous with self-overriding, replacing the old game in its own series. So the opponent that Warzone needs to worry about is not Fortnite or some other external game, but from its father. The next version of Call of Duty has been fixed and it risks the possibility of a new Battle Royale multiplayer version also coming. Unless Activision has calculated separately for the development path of Warzone. If not, the fact that Call of Duty: Warzone is storming is probably just a temporary phenomenon.