When it comes to ra-ra-raging, nobody does it quite like Call of Duty haters. These are guys who dedicate enormous amounts of time and energy and mispelled words into posting comments under every single Call of Duty article, reminding everybody else just how much the game sucks, and how much the people who play it suck, and how much everything else about it totally sucks too, lololol.

Their passion is truly an inspiration to us all, including the developers.

“We may have the number one selling game. We may have, at times, the number one most played game,” Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling tells Kotaku. “So it’s very easy to sit back and say. ‘We’ve done our jobs perfectly. We have the best game ever created. Look at the numbers.’

“But then you can get online and have people kick dirt in your face constantly every day about anything that they may not like about the game. It allows you to have a gut check and a perspective that this is where we still need to go. This is work that we still need to do.

“It allows you to not rest on acclaim alone, whether critical or commercial, and makes you realise that there are still audiences out there that want to enjoy your games that may not even play shooters, that may not be into the type of game you make. You can look at that and find ways to introduce them into the experience.”