Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty devs are up in arms on social media today following a dig made by God of War voice actor Christopher Judge at last night’s The Game Awards. After Judge made a joke at the expense of Modern Warfare 3’s campaign, the Call of Duty developers were quick to respond.

The joke was in Judge’s opening speech ahead of his presentation of the Best Performance award, and you can see it here:

Get comfortable folks. Here comes @iamchrisjudge! #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.com/0Zwlc3dwIg

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 8, 2023

Last year, Christopher Judge had an infamous eight-minute acceptance speech for his award. Poking fun at himself this year, he said “fun fact: my speech [last year] was actually longer than this year’s Call of Duty campaign.” The joke got a big round of applause at The Game Awards themselves, but following the show, Call of Duty developers current and prior took to social media to voice their frustration with the dig:

Ajinkya Limaye, Former Infinity Ward Dev

"funny" but yeah the metrics that CoD absolutely destroys all of the God of war games (probably combined tbh) in is also equally laughable (if not more) . https://t.co/QDhc3qZ1se

— Ajinkya Limaye (Aj) (@iddqd_Aj) December 8, 2023

Nelson Plumey, Associate Art Director at Treyarch

Imagine having $hort user engagement once your game is consumed… can’t relate. 🤭#gameawards

— ᴛⲓⲥҡʟᴇмʌꚍꚍᴇʀ (@Ticklematter) December 8, 2023

Darcy Sandall, Expert Engineer at Sledgehammer Games

Honestly, as COD developers, we've heard way worse. But we don't expect it from a peer, at an event that supposed to be celebrating this years achievements in gaming. Especially with all the information that was leaked about it's development. https://t.co/6uFg1zAgqK

— Darcy Sandall 💙 (@darcy_sandall) December 8, 2023

Even Barry Sloane, the current voice actor for Captain Price, had something to say:

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙹𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚢 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙸 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛. 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍. 👀 🤡

— 𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚂𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚗𝚎 (𝙾𝙵𝙵𝙸𝙲𝙸𝙰𝙻) (@BarrySloane) December 8, 2023

Clearly, the team is pretty upset at Judge’s joke. In our review, we criticized the campaign’s length as well, stating that we wished there had been more. Nonetheless, it probably hurts extra to see someone in your own industry make a joke at your expense in front of all of your peers.

Hopefully, the Modern Warfare 3 devs are still riding high off the launch of Warzone this week. If you’re interested in checking that out, you can do so here.

While there’s no new Call of Duty announcement at the show, there is one for Judge’s God of War Ragnarok, as it is getting a free “Valhalla” DLC next week.