Bloomberg:

The latest entry in Activision Blizzard's popular Call of Duty video-game series was made in half the time of previous iterations, a fact that may be contributing to a spate of bad reviews about the game’s storyline, according to people familiar with the development process.

It’s almost as if not giving creatives the necessary time to, uh, create? leads to subpar products.

At the time of this writing, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III sits at a 54 on OpenCritic, not a great foot forward for the now-under-Microsoft Activision.