12 Obvious Reasons 2015’s Most Hyped Video Games Will Fail

9. Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3 - No Dedicated Servers

Call of Duty still not having dedicated servers in 2015 is like a lottery winner still buying supermarket own-brand groceries. You'd think with the sheer amount of money the franchise has made in the years since Modern Warfare that Activision could afford to shell out for some actual decent servers for their games, instead of relying on a completely unreliable peer to peer service to host online content. The series arguably has the tightest gun-play of any first person shooter currently on the market, yet all that finesse and precision is lost the moment you spawn into a laggy peer to peer game. It's a simple fix, and even after years of promises from Activision themselves, dedicated servers are still yet to materialise properly in the series. The amount of times you're killed in one of these yearly releases through a faulty, glitchy server error only proves frustrating to anyone wanting to get into the game for the long term, putting off potential consumers from any future content the publisher will no doubt be priming for release.
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