The Twitch streamer Marcel “MontanaBlack” Eris has expressed critical views on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and the Battle Royale Warzone during a livestream. While he loves the game, he believes that the publisher Activision simply does not listen to the players.
This is the topic: MontanaBlack is currently mainly engaged in the latest Call of Duty. According to twitchtracker.com, he spent 49 hours in the shooter last month alone.
However, despite spending so much time in the game, he does not like everything about Modern Warfare and Warzone. He primarily criticizes the publisher Activision, which he believes simply does not heed the demands of the players.
Warzone was developed only by family men
These points are criticized by the streamer: In a stream, the highlights of which were uploaded to YouTube on May 31, MontanaBlack criticizes the following points:
- The rejoining of players is a major problem – he constantly plays with players he has reported. Various viewers often follow him into a round of Warzone.
- The matchmaking takes away a lot of fun from the streamer – he repeatedly plays against extremely strong opponents and rarely has a match where he can dominate the round and compete for the win.
- The maps in Modern Warfare are, in his opinion, by far not as good as they were in the previous titles.
Where does he see the biggest problem? All these difficulties in Modern Warfare and Warzone are explained by MontanaBlack as the developers from Activision not playing the game themselves and also not listening to the players.
He says: “I feel that unfortunately at Activision, in the development of Warzone, only family men are involved.” He believes that the developers have no clue and are “absolute bots” in the game. Nevertheless, these very developers are the decision-makers for the features in Warzone, according to the streamer.
This is where Activision does not listen: MontanaBlack reports a meeting with Activision, where the German community managers confirmed to him that they will listen to the community for this CoD installment.
However, for the streamer, exactly that has not been done. Hundreds of players still complain that the matchmaking in this CoD installment is poor. Nevertheless, Activision is not changing anything about it.
MontanaBlack also does not understand some steps of the developers. Modern Warfare has a completely new minimap and initially even wanted to completely do without this feature. The streamer states: “This has been in every CoD installment for the last 15 years. Why does it now have to change?”
This is what the streamer says about Warzone: Despite the many criticisms, MontanaBlack still enjoys playing the Battle Royale. He believes: “Warzone is a 1+-game,” but the family men who develop the game are the main point of criticism.
Compared to the Battle Royale Blackout from Black Ops 4, Warzone is also significantly more challenging. Due to the matchmaking, the streamer frequently faces tough opponents. While he still had several victories in one evening in Blackout, he has only achieved 4 victories in hundreds of matches in Warzone, according to MontanaBlack.
How justified is the criticism? The points that the streamer has raised have often been criticized by other players as well. The changed minimap particularly sparked many discussions at the launch of Modern Warfare.
The matchmaking is still a problem. Players continue to demand that the matchmaking should be changed. The streamer’s statements are therefore likely to resonate with many. The YouTube video with his opinion has (as of June 2 at 5:00 PM) already garnered nearly 800,000 views and 48,400 thumbs up.
