With every new COD there is more and more hate on the franchise and the developers in charge, we all know that. Even though the developers do mess some things up, I don't personally feel that it is the developers fault. I think it is mostly our fault. We all remember the days of WaW, COD 4, and MW2 and the countless hours of fun those games brought us all. I think the reason there is a lot of hate on the game is because we keep expecting to get thrown back into the old days and keep expecting the devs to recreate that environment for us even though it's gone. I may not speak for everyone, but half of the fun came from the game and the other half came from the people you were with and experiencing it for the first time. I think a lot of us that played the old ones and gripe when they come out with a new one liked the old ones because we were younger and it was good times with friends to play those games. We keep expecting to relive the old days when they are sadly gone. Nothing will ever live up to countless nights of boosting or countless rounds of zombies with friends, or countless hours of shit talking online. I think the main reason there is a lot of hate is that we can't let the old days go because of how good they were. Personally, I played the old COD's with a group of about 5 friends and over the years I have stopped talking to some of them because they have grown up and gone to college or whatever and the game lost it's luster because I have grown older and no longer have those friends to play with and the environment that it created is gone. I don't know, maybe it's just me but I think that COD will never be the same because we are comparing it to such high standards of what it was before, even if the game is developed good.