Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Devs “Paying Attention” to Community Feedback on Goofy Skins

Beavis and Butthead. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. An eyesore of a glowing rainbow unicorn thing.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has seen its just stock of “goofy” skins during its nine-month lifetime. The reception to those has been mixed to accidental the least, with the lines betwixt subordinate look and competitory gameplay often being blurred by the equipping of specified colourful designs.

So, tin we expect to spot the extravagance of immoderate of these designs pared backmost erstwhile it comes to the merchandise of Black Ops 7?

“Yeah, it's a bully question, and we person thought astir this, and I deliberation if you look astatine us, we're ever looking astatine assemblage feedback”, explains Miles Leslie, subordinate originative director. “We ever effort to marque definite that we are trying to interaction the widest audience. I've had the pleasance of moving connected Call of Duty present for astir 20 years, and we're perpetually looking astatine ways to propulsion into antithetic audiences and fans, and that's what you saw with that; determination are fans that truly emotion it. Obviously, determination are fans who those whitethorn not beryllium their favorite. We're going to effort to calibrate that arsenic we determination forward, and we instrumentality that feedback seriously. But again, we are trying to marque definite that each fans consciousness represented successful the crippled and figuring retired that choky equilibrium is thing we're paying attraction to.”

It comes arsenic Battlefield 6 — a acold much self-serious depiction of warfare — emerges arsenic a genuine contender to Call of Duty’s online shooter dominance. Don’t expect to spot akin outrageous outfits making their mode into EA’s subject sim, though, with plan manager Shashank Uchil stating, “I don’t deliberation it needs Nicki Minaj. Let’s support it real, support it grounded.”

For now, you tin cheque retired my afloat preview of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. For much from the devs, cheque retired their thoughts connected Call of Duty being called ‘lazy’, the usage of generative AI, and however Black Ops 7 was made successful parallel to Black Ops 6.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.