Hoping for a Wake-Up Call
The franchise may need failure to change
Going Dark - A Call of Duty Podcast
Sep 19, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 16 segments
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Some stuff that I've been working on, I made a, I made a new channel.
I made a space channel.
Um, I
love that so
much.
And it's, uh, it's sort of like a little homage to chopper.
Like gaming is not going anywhere for me.
I'm still going to be doing my main channel, but I just had this other thing on the site I was doing.
It's called frost with a zero for the, Oh, just like chopper is, um, you guys can check that out if you want to, if it's your cup of tea, maybe not, but, um, it's not gaming.
So it's like just a little creative Avenue for me to explore.
And you and I were kind of doing that, um, on our own ways.
But then at the same time, I was thinking after our most recent episode, like, um, Just after we posted the one before this, like that was when the decision was made that, you know, like Sony killed discs.
Yeah.
Right.
And I'm like, that is something we got to talk about.
You know, I'm like, this is that that's a whole episode on its own.
And I just got to thinking, I'm like.
We have so much.
potential and interest to talk about things that are happening.
And the problem was like, you know, we've done this before where we load up an episode and we go, guys, listen, you know, we're going to not talk about cod.
We're going to talk about whatever we want.
The only problem with that, I think from our approach was that we didn't, approach it from the viewpoint of like call of duty was always still the number one try to drift away from it it was the sun right we still orbited around the sun yep and yeah we might touch on other things here and there like you know we would orbit around but call of duty was always the sun we orbited around and i think we the distinction we want to make here is that like Today's episode's a little different, because I
wanted
to give, like, essentially our final thoughts on, like, where the state of everything is at right now.
But from this point, once we change direction a little bit, we don't want to make Call of Duty the sun we orbit around.
Some stuff that I've been working on, I made a, I made a new channel.
I made a space channel.
Um, I
love that so
much.
And it's, uh, it's sort of like a little homage to chopper.
Like gaming is not going anywhere for me.
I'm still going to be doing my main channel, but I just had this other thing on the site I was doing.
It's called frost with a zero for the, Oh, just like chopper is, um, you guys can check that out if you want to, if it's your cup of tea, maybe not, but, um, it's not gaming.
So it's like just a little creative Avenue for me to explore.
And you and I were kind of doing that, um, on our own ways.
But then at the same time, I was thinking after our most recent episode, like, um, Just after we posted the one before this, like that was when the decision was made that, you know, like Sony killed discs.
Yeah.
Right.
And I'm like, that is something we got to talk about.
You know, I'm like, this is that that's a whole episode on its own.
And I just got to thinking, I'm like.
We have so much.
potential and interest to talk about things that are happening.
And the problem was like, you know, we've done this before where we load up an episode and we go, guys, listen, you know, we're going to not talk about cod.
We're going to talk about whatever we want.
The only problem with that, I think from our approach was that we didn't, approach it from the viewpoint of like call of duty was always still the number one try to drift away from it it was the sun right we still orbited around the sun yep and yeah we might touch on other things here and there like you know we would orbit around but call of duty was always the sun we orbited around and i think we the distinction we want to make here is that like Today's episode's a little different, because I
wanted
to give, like, essentially our final thoughts on, like, where the state of everything is at right now.
But from this point, once we change direction a little bit, we don't want to make Call of Duty the sun we orbit around.
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Hoping for a Wake-Up Call
The franchise may need failure to change
Call of Duty’s Lost Future
The franchise risks losing its next generation
The Beta Marketing Disaster
The beta changed before players could adapt
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