10 Exact Moments That Made Fans Hate Gaming Franchises

9. Call Of Duty...In Spaaaaaace! - Call Of Duty

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare certainly wasn't the first entry into the franchise to dip its feet in the sci-fi genre, but while previous games featured increasingly outlandish technologies, speculative visions of the future and awesome exo-suits, 2016's entry into the annual franchise took a full-fledged sojourn to space.

The game's reveal trailer alone was met with overwhelming disdain from the fanbase, receiving 3.81 million dislikes on YouTube, making it the 6th most disliked video on the platform.

And though Infinity Warfare was as mechanically sound as any entry into the franchise, it was just too far a leap from the series' roots for many fans, and it being the third future-set CoD game in a row sure didn't help.

The game ended up selling only around half of what the previous game, Black Ops III, did, and signalled a general decline in the series' popularity (though 13.6 million units sold is still nothing to sniff at).

Above all else, it confirmed that Activision didn't really have anywhere interesting for CoD to go, and by venturing into space, they showed themselves both desperate and fresh out of ideas.

Despite the publisher trying to lure fans back with the Battle Royale-centric Black Ops IIII, the game only barely outsold Infinite Warfare, confirming that the sci-fi romp was the straw that finally broke the back of many fatigued fans.