Crash Bandicoot, Spyro Developer Toys For Bob Has Been Moved To Work On Call Of Duty

This is just getting sad, So much wasted talent being wasted on Call Of Duty..

@Bmartin001 Well by the looks of those tweets, a few of Toys for Bob have quit the company when they switched to making CoD, so that talent is probably no longer with Toys For Bob.

@Bmartin001 I’m with you. I’m pretty done with call of duty. No hate against it. But I enjoy fun adventure games more. This news saddens me as Spyro, Crash 4, and Tony Hawk were amazing

I really hate COD. It’s a money making machine that can’t be stopped and needs constant development to keep it rolling over everything. -_-

I don't play Crash or Spyro games but this is still so sad. Call of Duty isn't just a game that comes out every year anymore, it is literally preventing other games from being made and that's scary

Man first they relegate the dev that worked on Tony Hawk to a support studio and now this, are they really just gonna live off of cod for the rest of their existence.

@Xeno_Aura I thought those were just devs part of one of the frequent layoffs.

@Cherip-the-Ripper Well, either way, Toys for Bob isn't a big company (less than 200 employees), and they've let go a fair few staff, so I'd say a reasonable number of those who worked on Spyro/Crash don't work there anymore. If 3 of the staff tweeted out about them no longer working, I'd imagine the actual number who no longer work there is quite a bit higher.

I really wish Activision (and EA with its sports titles) would just transition to a yearly update for Call of Duty instead of developing a new title every year. This is coming from someone who doesn’t play Call of Duty multiplayer and used to just buy the games, beat the campaign, and then sell them. Warzone has been massively popular and it only continues to grow. Keep it free to play or heck, charge full price for just “Call of Duty” at the beginning of a new console generation, and then charge $20 or $30 every year for a big content update. This brand new Call of Duty (or Madden, FIFA, etc.) isn’t needed anymore. Warzone, Fortnite, and Apex have proven that with their “Seasons.” Dedicate one or two studios to that (IW and/or Treyarch) and let your other studios work on other things.

This probably means no new Spyro…😞

I saw someone post recently that Crash 4 flopped and I was surprised. I tried looking it up but I couldn’t find anything that seemed definitive. This news seems to confirm that the game underperformed.

The studio will henceforth be named guns for price

This shouldn't be shocking though. Acti has been putting all their eggs in to the bigger baskets and discarding the smaller ones for years.

They don't deserve the IPs, let alone the talent.

If they are going to keep Warzone going, why don't they just make the mainline COD games every couple of years instead of every year?
I know the answer. It's greed, but I've lost a lot of interest in the series and just play Warzone every now and then for my fix.

Well, that shouldn't be surprising. Activision buys up a lot of great devs, and then throws them into just making CoD content. RIP Raven.

I really don't understand how CoD remains so popular. There's really nothing special about it and the gunplay is so bland and lifeless. I could see it gaining popularity in the PS360 era, but how is it STILL going? The CoD tweens are collecting pensions by now.

@NEStalgia it’s like sports games. There is whole group of people that just enjoy more of the same. FIFA, Madden, NBA2k etc etc. I just wished all these companies would get rid of the annual model and just do seasons.

@mousieone I can kind of understand sports games, particularly for "non gamers"that are into sports, not video games, and are just looking for another way to consume their favorite sports each year. But cod isn't that. It's just a multiplayer shooter that's still in 2002 and sells the same game every year, there's a lot of people buying but I'm not sure who. It rather, who that didn't switch to fortnite anyway, lol

@NEStalgia I find the distinction you are making to be superfluous. Many people that play COD also play a sports game of some sort. Same type of person, and yes some play Fortnite but Fortnite is for kids; hence Warzone’s popularity.

@mousieone lol, that's a fair point. My reptile brain can't comprehend a connection between sports games and a war simulator, but what do I know, my only sports experience was playing the show on game pass for a week.