It was so cool to finally meet one of my childhood heroes from gaming. Btw i didn’t ask him if he is returning for Cod 2024, because it wouldn’t matter because of NDA. (Excuse my friend for having a potato quality camera btw 😂) ”Note this is a panel from Comic Con in Sweden recently.
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it is so sad that set crew characters and their personalities got replaced with operators. truly one of the biggest losses the mode has ever endured.
i have absolutely nothing to back theory up, but i feel in my heart that a big contributing factor to jason blundell leaving the studio is because activision forced the zombie’s mode to get rid of the unique characters and thus their storytelling ability through gameplay and intractability with the maps themselves, which jason relied heavily upon to craft his narratives.
imagine mob, shadows, or origins but instead of the set crews, we had operators. instantly takes the map quality down. i think he probably tried to compromise but the mba execs who have never told a single story or made a game in their lives decided that having the unique characters and paying voice actors wasn’t going to make money, so they completely axed them causing jason and other zombie’s devs to just up and leave because they knew right then that the quality that fans had been used to in their maps was impossible to uphold without that critical factor.