Richard Lewis and H3CZ reveal what could hold franchising back in Call of Duty Eleague\/Charlie IntelEsports journalist Richard Lewis has, again, spoken about the possibility of franchising in professional Call of Duty during an appearance on OpTic Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez\u2019s Eavesdrop Podcast. It is believed franchising in Call of Duty has been considered by Activision for a few years and the idea was recently talked about after the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 \u2013 something Lewis had already reported on earlier. Plenty of esports titles have already moved or are considering a move to a franchise structure and Call of Duty is no different. Many fans and pundits believe that it\u2019ll happen in time for 2019\u2019s CoD release following the competitive scene\u2019s change to a 5 vs 5 model for the Black Ops 4 season. On Episode 12 of H3CZ\u2019s Eavesdrop Podcast, Lewis speaks on why he thinks regional franchising in the game wouldn\u2019t be successful and what Activision would have to do to make a franchised CoD league work. Lewis said: \u201cI think one of the big failings of the Overwatch League is this idea of enforced regionality because one of the beautiful things about esports compared to regular sports is that you don\u2019t need to have the regionality. We\u2019re global.\u201d Equating that to Call of Duty, Lewis doesn\u2019t believe that a regional system would work \u2013 giving the example of confining top organizations like OpTic Gaming and FaZe Clan to one city and alienating parts of a pre-existing fanbase. \u201cImagine if you were LA OpTic, just imagine that. All the fans around the world of OpTic, how many are you isolating with that. And then here\u2019s the other problem with regionality, I don\u2019t know if Call of Duty and regionality is a good fit at all.\u201d (Timestamp for below video of 48:03 for mobile users) \u201cIf they try and shoehorn that [regionality] in when they eventually do franchise, because I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s gonna happen \u2013 when they franchise Call of Duty like they do Overwatch \u2013 none of this \u2018let\u2019s build new brands\u2019 bullshit,\u201d added Lewis. \u201cLet the great Call of Duty teams be the great Call of Duty teams with their already great fan bases and let them compete in a structured environment. That\u2019s all you need to do to make Call of Duty great.\u201d Disclaimer: Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez is a minority shareholder in Dexerto Ltd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Richard Lewis and H3CZ reveal what could hold franchising back in Call of Duty Eleague\/Charlie IntelEsports journalist Richard Lewis has, again, spoken about the possibility of franchising in professional Call of Duty during an appearance on OpTic Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez\u2019s Eavesdrop Podcast. It is believed franchising in Call of Duty has been considered by Activision […]<\/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-30874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874","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=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}