The unenthusiastic reception to Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has publisher Activision reevaluating its yearly release schedule, and the franchise will take an important step in ensuring each new entry is fresh.
An update on Black Ops 7's first season of content was shared by Call of Duty, and among a handful of announcments is a major revelation: CoD will no longer release games from the same subseries consecutively. Yearly releases appear to still be on the docket, but two Modern Warfare or two Black Ops games will not release in back-to-back years moving forward.
Black Ops 7 reviews were respectable (it's very uncommon for Call of Duty to score abnormally low), but player reception has been quite harsh. This is the second time in three years such an occurrence has struck the FPS monolith. 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 suffered a similar fate, garnering much more criticism than 2022's Modern Warfare 2, mostly due to a lack of content.
Seeing said result repeat in Black Ops 7, which was billed as the biggest Call of Duty ever, and has a breadth of content to back it up, has seemingly swayed Activision...
