Call of Duty legend Scump claims Warzone \u201calready\u201d killed CoD multiplayer Call of Duty League \/ ActivisionOne of the most famous names in Call of Duty history, OpTic Gaming\u2019s Scump has claimed that the Warzone battle royale is not a threat to ruin the multiplayer scene in the future \u2014 it already has. Warzone debuted in March 2020 and has taken the cultural center stage ever since. In recent weeks, following a wildly successful World Series of Warzone tournament, a number of CDL pros have discussed the game\u2019s place in CoD\u2019s ecosystem at length. Most recently, James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks, a three-time world champion, dove into how Warzone \u201cis taking the f**k over\u201d and how its growth comes at the detriment of the Call of Duty League\u2019s. A central reason? That the work and money being put into Warzone would go to multiplayer otherwise. When Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez brought up Clay\u2019s comments on a recent OpTic Podcast, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner doubled down on his peer\u2019s sentiment. As H3CZ brings up Clay\u2019s suggestion that Warzone kill CoD multiplayer, Scump quickly lays down his perspective: \u201cI\u2019m gonna put it as lightly as possible: it already did.\u201d The pro then elaborated on why saying so isn\u2019t a fineable offense and should just be seen as an obvious truth. \u201cIt\u2019s not like it\u2019s not apparent to everybody. Look at Twitch for instance, look at the player base. Cold War has like 6K viewers, Warzone has minimum 100K all the time.\u201d Moving to numbers beside viewership, OpTic teammate Dylan \u2018Envoy\u2019 Hannon jumps on with another angle \u2014 noting that Warzone seems to have major tournaments every other day. Dillon we held Red Reserve Reece, no vivid, to like $30k in 3 years, and now he goes to WZ and he\u2019s COD4 Halifax? Spencer is gonna have him replace my specific banner position too and that\u2019ll be never ending banter L for me in regards to that sea lion. \u2014 FaZe Crimsix (@Crimsix) June 24, 2021 This point is one that has struck a nerve with other legendary CoD players as well, such as Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter. The Dallas Empire pro took a keener interest in Warzone after the WSOW, particularly focused on former pro Rhys \u2018Rated\u2019 Price\u2019s earnings in Warzone. If players like Rated are making over $200,000 in a year of Warzone winnings, it\u2019s clear that there is big money and attention for the scene. Scump has no issue with that side of things, but does use the cash flow as an example of the battle royale\u2019s growing grip on the CoD community. What Scump does have an issue with is the state of the current multiplayer experience in Black Ops Cold War. Citing issues in the ranked play system alongside map frustrations, the pro explained that MP CoD will only be able to compete with BR CoD when more work is put into the multiplayer competitive experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Call of Duty legend Scump claims Warzone \u201calready\u201d killed CoD multiplayer Call of Duty League \/ ActivisionOne of the most famous names in Call of Duty history, OpTic Gaming\u2019s Scump has claimed that the Warzone battle royale is not a threat to ruin the multiplayer scene in the future \u2014 it already has. Warzone debuted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}