DICE thinks the modern setting for FPS' is getting stale

7/9/12 8:00pm

DICE thinks the modern warfare setting for shooters is getting stale while public support for the genre might be beginning to dwindle unless something huge can be done. DICE’s general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson believes that the appeal of first-person-shooters set in the modern day may be dwindling.

“I think we’re going to start seeing people moving away from the modern setting, because every now and again settings or themes start to get stale and then everyone jumps over... You know, at some point dinosaurs are the hottest thing and everyone is making games with dinosaurs, but there are trends. It used to be WWII, and recently it’s been the modern era and people are now moving towards near future.”

Although he did state a simple switch of settings or time periods will not be as influential as the switch from World War II to modern warfare was for first person shooters.

He also hinted the whole problem might only be a real issue for the first person sub-genre and not shooters as a whole. The potential switch to the near future as the next big move might only produce a temporary boost and not the next big boost in interest for the time being.

To put things into current perspective, Activision and Treyarch are pushing the near future as a possible future for the Call of Duty series starting with Black Ops 2 while Electronic Arts is still committed to the modern setting at least with the upcoming Medal of Honor Warfighter.

» Source: http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/dice-modern-day-fps-setting-is-getting-stale/
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Andrej

July 10, 2012 - 1:11pm

I'm calling it: After they're done with near-future shooters, everyone will go back to making WWII games. After a few years, people will get fed up and developers will move on to shooters set in a contemporary setting. Then the whole damn cycle will start anew.

Also, someone will make a WWI shooter at some point but 80% of people won't care.

Emblem

July 10, 2012 - 12:38pm

What did I just read? How trends can only vaguely inspire fickle buyers? How shooters will still always sell but can seem generic as more of the same time period is released.

Thought we all knew that. What I wanna know is...what's DICE gonna do about that if they don't like it?

Juggernaut

July 10, 2012 - 12:01pm

How about we go back to cavemen times... slings and arrows! :D

Heigen

July 10, 2012 - 10:29am

How about WW1? :D

ShinraCorp

July 10, 2012 - 10:08am

New setting ideas: Future settings, BATTLEFIELD IN SPAAAAAACE! (Not 2142), World War 1, The 7 Year War... ok scratch that.... and finally. Prehistoric war, where everyone throws a spear.... hell I would try that.

Steeler

July 10, 2012 - 9:14am

The reason that we associate the idiot gamer with three modern shooters they buy, is that the companies build these games for accessibility. Kids, uninterested school students, after graduates with unsatisfying jobs, this is the majority of the medal of duty population. These people only relate to WW2 and Modern Combat because it's popular culture in movies and other media, the only things they see. These people are ignorant and don't know or care for seeing new things. How to fix it, I don't know.