OpTic H3CZ slams Call of Duty devs treating competitive CoD as an \u201cafterthought\u201d President of the OpTic Texas CDL franchise, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez, claims the Call of Duty devs\u2019 decisions and the lack of league play at launch is ruining competitive CoD, claiming the competitive scene is an \u201cafterthought\u201d. As we\u2019re heading into the third year of the franchised CDL with the launch of Call of Duty: Vanguard, promises made by the devs to franchise owners have not been fulfilled. The lack of league play at launch year after year and game-changing additions being added to the game are examples that are negatively affecting the popularity of the CDL and competitive CoD generally. Halo Infinite\u2019s launch was more successful than many imagined, and during episode 55 of the OpTic podcast on December 26, H3CZ went off on a tangent when comparing the successful Halo to Call of Duty. \u201cYou would not say Halo was going to have that good of a f**king launch. But what happened? Good product, good competitive settings, whatever the pro players are playing is something you can play when you launch the game with no problems,\u201d said H3CZ. \u201cCall of Duty has private lobbies with the f**king Krampus? We are a f**king second thought. I will lead again by saying that everybody at league level wants Call of Duty competitive to work,\u201d H3CZ expressed, before hitting out at the developers for their lack of effort. \u201cIt\u2019s the developers that are falling way behind and letting us down, period.\u201d (Timestamp at 15:14) League play has been missing at Call of Duty\u2019s launch for the last few years, which hinders professional players\u2019 ability to practice before the start of the season. H3CZ touched on the issue: \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s a problem. The game launched in November. Our first game is in January, in two months,\u201d he raged. \u201cNo league play at launch either after year after year after year of people saying it\u2019s coming \u2013 it\u2019s never coming!\u201d \u201cOrganizations are paying 10\u2019s of millions of dollars to fund this thing, and there\u2019s no end in sight of when we\u2019re getting what they told us. Two years ago when this thing launched, I was told we\u2019re going to have league play because it\u2019s important! Three years in, season three of CDL is about to start and there\u2019s no league play.\u201d There\u2019s less than a month to go until season three of the CDL kicks off. Hopefully, the devs don\u2019t make any more game-changing decisions that\u2019ll hurt competitive play before then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic H3CZ slams Call of Duty devs treating competitive CoD as an \u201cafterthought\u201d President of the OpTic Texas CDL franchise, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez, claims the Call of Duty devs\u2019 decisions and the lack of league play at launch is ruining competitive CoD, claiming the competitive scene is an \u201cafterthought\u201d. As we\u2019re heading into the third […]<\/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-30502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502","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=30502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}