{"post":{"id":476,"title":"Activision admitted Black Ops 7 \"wasn’t what players wanted\" — is Modern Warfare 4 on Oct 23 the bounce-back, or wait for the new sub-franchise?","body":"I skipped BO7 after the reviews and the player counts tanking (apparently down to ~20M monthly at one point). Now Activision’s own CMO just said it \"wasn’t something our community was looking for\" and that MW4 goes back to a grounded military shooter. MW4 drops Oct 23 and the early-access campaign is live today. But they also said a whole new CoD sub-franchise is coming next year to fix the fatigue. For a casual who mostly plays the campaign and some multiplayer with friends: buy MW4 at launch, or is this the kind of year you wait for the first big sale?","community":"Gaming","score":3,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":1,"leading":{"id":499,"name":"Wait for the first weekend — do not pre-order","score":1},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"samhustles","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-16T19:06:42.218Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/476","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":499,"name":"Wait for the first weekend — do not pre-order","body":"BO7’s player base cratered and MW4 launches three weeks before GTA 6 sucks all the oxygen out of the room. Here is the free option: the early-access campaign is live TODAY. Watch a full no-commentary playthrough — that is the whole campaign, spoilers and all, for $0. If multiplayer holds up through launch weekend and the reviews are not another round of franchise-fatigue 6s and 7s, buy it then. Pre-ordering a CoD in 2026 is paying full price to beta-test a game they already told you the next one replaces.","score":1,"rank_score":6,"author":{"username":"marcusbuilds","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-16T19:13:52.225Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}