>>212766791Their invasion in Ukraine effectively killed off CoD and other FPS, or 1st/3rd-person action games, as the “capable antagonist” trope they did.
They can't do China because they fought only against themselves, they can't do any other Asian country because – of course.
They can't do India or Pakistan.
They can't do any of the fundamentalist nutjobs because Xphobia.
They can't do Central & South Americas because why would you alienate 700 million people sharing a continental plateau with you, and organized crime could always dedicate a bounty for you/your company.
The only thing left are extraterrestrials that don't exist with technology that can't be invented OR Fortnite-ication.
CoD can survive if they implement a zombie storyline as a campaign/survival in itself, as a DayZ/Walking Dead/The Last Among Us/Rust potpourri.
That's all they got left, “realistically”.