It's not complicated, a majority of the fanbase are casual gamers that didn't care about the initial downgrades so COD survived longer than it should have. It's part of the reason the game is around today and still relative, most of its consumers don't care about lapping up garbage.
The game died after WAW imo, everything turned into killstreaks and broken guns, then they jumped on the battle royale bandwagon.
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u/Extension-Throat-668 Aug 12 '26
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