Guitar Hero is dead. Long live Call of Duty?

That's the attitude Activision took this week, as the publishing giant announced that it will shift its focus away from the music genre and toward the mega-popular series of shooters. Our own Rus McLaughlin has a great take on these events, but we also wanted to know what our brilliant Facebook and Twitter followers had to say.

We also asked our followers about the recent trend of high-profile games with lowbrow humor, like Bulletstorm (see the interview our Brett Bates held with Lead Producer Tanya Jessen for more) and Duke Nukem Forever (Shoe's account of his trip to the "Titty City" press event is a must-read).

So check out the responses below, and don't forget to follow Bitmob on Facebook and Twitter for more questions, contests, and news. We do these Tweetbook Q&A articles weekly, so if you want to be featured, keep an eye out and respond!

What's your reaction to Activision's decision to stop making Guitar Hero games and focus on the Call of Duty series?

Via Twitter:

@bbretterson: (Brett Bates): I only own Rock Band, so it doesn't affect me much. I do worry about Activision putting too many eggs in one basket, though.

@brianruhlman: Well, to me it seems they're taking a year off and will return in 2012, but seems I'm the only one that thinks this.

@AlbusDangledong (Michael W): I'm glad to see GH go. I think the series peaked at GH2. CoD's formula is beyond stale, but I'll probably rent them for the campaigns

@demian_linn: Guitar Hero is what happens when you exploit a franchise instead of build it. Watch it happen all over again with CoD.

@MikeRousseau: Not looking forward to all of the churned-out CoD spinoffs we'll get as a result.

@CHoadley (Chris Hoadley): Guitar Hero broke records, basked in adoration, coasted on past success, and finally fell apart. Still, I hope for a comeback.

@MKEGameDesign (David Hughes): No surprise.

@Crys383 (Tom H): If they hadn't gone balls-out with flooding the market, it wouldn't have been necessary. Good riddance. It seems that Kotick's strategy is to get hot property, make it irrelevant with over-saturation, and move on. Has sights on CoD now.

@Morinar (Nick Seegmiller): I think they ran two successful franchises into the ground, and now they're trying to do it with another one.

@SinclairWill (Will Sinclair) Way to go from trendsetter (or purchaser of trendsetting properties) to follower, Activision. Do you even know who you are anymore?

@JakeGodin: It's a trap!

@Jeremy_LaMont: They're following the money, and why not? The outrage of gamers doesn't translate into sales much of the time. Vote with your wallet.

Via Facebook:

Andrew Colwander: Throwing all your eggs into one basket rarely has the best results. Fans are going to start expecting nothing less than perfection from the COD series now. Activision may benefit initially, but over time it will prove to be a wrong move. Not saying they should have kept the Guitar Hero production since the music genre has been fading, but it could have been used to focus on something else.

Ken Wesley Jr.: They needed to stop Guitar Hero. They flooded it all through 2009. They were wrong to expect people to keep buying instruments year after year and expect the same results. And I dunno if I can say the same for Call of Duty. People keep buying the games. I think the worst part about all this is that Kotick keeps pissing on EA, and yet they keep repeating the same mistakes and leading to more studio closures. All the jobs lost and the jobs that will be lost in the future will be worse.

Jennifer 'Dremmers' Taylor-Foster: I think Guitar Hero needed to be put to rest anyway. It had been rehashed so many times, and now that the sales for that type of game are declining, it was time to cling onto something else. However, how much more can the FPS genre really take, what with numerous Battlefield: Bad Company games and now Crysis coming soon? This may go on for another couple of years, but considering the current saturation, Activision might have to change focus again.

Aki Darwich-Mcfadden: People are making this too big when the real issue is, WHEN IS THE NEXT TRUE CRIME COMING OUT?! I swear it would have been such a decent rival to L.A. Noire....

Dan "Shoe" Hsu: I totally agree with Aki. Although I didn't care for the previous True Crimes, I was looking forward to the new one and the series going in the right direction. And I'm definitely fine with no more music-rhythm games!

Taylor Kos: Activision loves to milk series dry. They already ruined Tony Hawk and the Guitar Hero franchise, why not let them ruin America's favorite multiplayer game?

Rus McLaughlin: I often wonder if a single day goes by where the folks at Bungie -- who are now stuck in Activision's camp -- don't wonder if they've made a terrible, terrible mistake.

Ken Wesley Jr.: Bungie's fine. They got what Infinity Ward thought should've been theirs: complete creative control and zero meddling from the publisher.

Click on for responses to the "lowbrow" humor in Bulletstorm and Duke Nukem Forever.