The new Season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone 2 is online, but it does not meet expectations. Beforehand, some CoD creators created an optimistic mood around the update, with well-known Twitch streamer JoeWo being one of them. For this, he is now receiving death threats.
Call of Duty announced quite a bit for the current Season 3. Here on MeinMMO, we also had a few articles about individual adjustments that would advance Warzone 2:
Expectations were high, and many players believe after the update that too much was promised. This has even led to at least one major content creator receiving death threats.
Here is the short trailer for Season 3:
Call of Duty made the creators believe that more was coming
JoeWo had already made a name for himself during the old Warzone. He was known as the “Movement King” and impressed with his hectic gameplay.
With the release of Warzone 2, the creator was also back on board. The announcements of the new Season 3 made him so optimistic that he wanted to create some positive hype. So he posted a few hours before the update:
Tweet Translation: “Today is Christmas Eve for CoD players”
Even in the days before, he created excitement and spread hope. For him, the gameplay changes were particularly important, which should again create a larger skill gap and improve the ranked matches in Warzone 2.
But ranked mode will come later, and many fans found the gameplay adjustments not significant enough.
After the update, JoeWo then shared the following:
Tweet Translation: “Insanity. I’m getting death threats because of a Call of Duty update. I was optimistic about an update that wasn’t that good, and apparently, I’m now the scapegoat.”
On YouTube, the streamer then released a video in which he apologized to his fans who were disappointed due to his hype (via youtube.com).
Other creators also raised hopes beforehand that there would be significant changes. Some also spoke out regarding the threats:
The news account CharlieIntel tries to explain: “[…] there were discussions in the creator call last week that led many [creators] to believe that the adjustments would be more significant than what came with the update.”
Accordingly, there were discussions about changes to the time-to-kill, especially in close combat. However, this was now handled through weapon balancing and not through adjusting hit points, as was the case in Warzone 1. Apparently, the creators felt that the adjustments would go deeper.
There were also expectations for movement and “shooting while sliding” based on the conversation versus what ultimately came out.
Such threats happen again and again in the gaming cosmos and have now affected the whole industry. Whether press, creators, or developers – gaming is an emotional topic for many, but death threats are completely unacceptable.
Unfortunately, they have almost become part of everyday life: Rust: “In survival games, murder threats against developers are common” – Team behind Steam hit is threatened daily
