Call Of Duty Pros Calling it Quits Mid Season?

Published 08/05/2020, 12:38 PM EDT

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The discussion is not new but as more time passes it is getting a bit worrisome. Call Of Duty professional players are leaving the game one after the other. Is Modern Warfare to blame? Are the devs not listening? All these questions kept coming up the past few weeks. But one day or the other we see a player from the competitive scene leave. The latest to call it quits publicly is Doug ‘Censor’ Martin. He is a professional player for New York Subliners but has sat out almost the whole season on the bench. The New York Subliners are going in hot into the CDL playoffs and Censor just came out a few days ago with this piece of news;

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This doesn’t come out as a shock honestly. Previously, pros have complained that Modern Warfare is a game that is absolutely not up to its mark. Way back in May, Seth ‘Scump’ Abner of the Chicago Huntsmen had called the game trash. He also said if not for Warzone, it would probably have been the worst Call Of Duty title ever made. People discuss the conflicting Squad spawn system and add to that SBMM, everything seems to put the game at a disadvantage for pro players.

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How is it affecting the Call Of Duty League?

The problems with rebooted COD MW just does not seem to end. In addition to that CDL has been turned totally online. This is affecting a lot of pro players who are competing. Matthew ‘Skrapz’ Marshall of London team was one of the recent ones to rant on Twitter on how bad this game felt like to play;

There were complaints from Otic Gaming’s SlasheR who probably is on the line to call it quits;

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Maybe, just maybe the devs should be paying a bit more attention to the game. If this scenario continues the League will take a huge brunt next season. Just in its inaugural version, the hype is tremendous and hence nobody would want this esports scene to get hurt.
But for the major part of 2020, I think many pros feel the same as Dashy from Optic Gaming;

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Source- Twitter/ @Censor
Twitter/ @SlasheR_AL
Twitter/ @skrapzg
Twitter/@DashySZN

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Avhinandan Chakraborty

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Avhinandan Chakraborty is an eSports author at EssentiallySports since August 2020. He is currently pursuing his Master's degree in English Literature from Calcutta University, and has been professionally writing since 2020. Ever since he was a child, he has been extremely passionate about online gaming and eSports, having played titles like GTA Vice City, FIFA, and IGI, among many others.
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