xQc just gave Call of Duty a piece of his mind. Reacting live to the Modern Warfare 4 trailer, xQc told the developers exactly what he thinks the franchise is doing wrong.
His verdict: “I like the game, but stop doing war in the future, we are tired of it, do war in the past.”
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It wasn’t a rant. xQc actually praised the trailer itself. His issue was strictly with the setting. He’s done with the high-tech, drone-heavy, near-future flavor that Call of Duty keeps serving up, and he wants Activision to send players somewhere older instead.
The franchise has been bouncing between eras for over two decades. It started with World War II in the original 2003 game, switched lanes with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007, then went sci-fi with Advanced Warfare, Black Ops III, and Infinite Warfare. After heavy pushback to exosuits and wall-running, the series swung back to grounded combat with WWII in 2017, the Modern Warfare reboot in 2019, Vanguard in 2021, and Black Ops 6 last year, which dropped players into the early 1990s.
So xQc’s request isn’t new. It’s part of a cycle COD fans know well. When the games are modern, people miss the trenches. When they’re historical, people miss the gadgets.
There’s a real reason Activision keeps pulling back to modern settings though. The Gunsmith system, operator skins, killstreaks, crossover bundles, and live-service monetization all work better when the timeline is flexible. Strapping a red dot sight on a Kar98k is a harder sell. So is dropping a Nicki Minaj skin into the trenches of Verdun.
