Ubisoft should have never gotten their claws on the publishing rights of CoD. Their vehement handling of the game ruined it.
I hope CoD isn't fading away. I would feel really bad for Ilya and the rest of the crew. They worked so hard and so long on the product. Before its release we received regular updates and though progress was moving along relatively slowly, there was still appreciable progress. Things were slowly-but-surely shaping up to be a real classic.
Then Ubisoft got involved.
Things have gone downhill ever since.