As revealed in a tweet by Infinity Ward's own Robert Bowling, Modern Warfare 2 has surpassed the 25 million unique online players mark. That figure includes all three platforms, with Xbox 360 leading the way, followed by PlayStation 3, and then PC.
There's a theory going around that says some people only purchase videogames from established franchises and avoid new intellectual properties at all costs. MW2 just proved it right -- the direct follow-up is "dominating COD4's numbers," according to Bowling.
The last bit of news comes in the form of a tease: we are told to expect information about the first add-on pack (release date, possibly more) during this week. Oh hai, GDC! Forgot you were going on this week.
Over 25 Million Modern Warfare 2 Players, DLC Details Coming [Game Informer]
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9:30 PM on 03.08.2010
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What in the fuck's name kind of logic is that? I'm sorry, but that needs to be said.
And ineffectual story is ineffectual. MW2 is honestly a humongous shitpile.
How many do you think that is? A good 10, 15 million?
hype really, mw2 has the rep of the greatest shooter in existance, despite the fact it has balance issues up the ass.the fact is that's what the common publics(see: people who believe anything there told and haven't researched a damn thing in their lives) belief of this game is.
We officially live in a age where hype determines wether a game is good or not and if or if not it's gonna sell, creativity and quality have taken a back seat.
I'm surprised this is coming out now, what with the whole IW/Activision fiasco.
They need to release a map pack with all of the maps from COD4, if not just be sure to include Broadcast and Showdown in the next one.
rant done :).
I'm sure the fact that MW2 bought a shit ton of adspace on every reviewer's website didn't help, either. I agree 100%, though.
I don't play military shooters all that often, and maybe the people who do have found a better game in BC2. But for the time being, MW2 fits my requirements.
Of course I could be wrong, but it's one way to look at it.
This game is only popular because its a heavy medium for the generation. Its a game where newbs can run and gun to their hearts conetent and be good at it. "OMG SOMETHING MOVED KILL IT". People don't move that quickly in real life or run that silly. You run like you have to either A) Poop or B) Just realized Anal beads don't feel good and you must get them out ASAP.
Oh videogames. When will you make a shooter with hitboxes in hitboxes? Hit in the knee, limp/can't walk/crawl. Hit in the chest with a sniper bullet, 1 shot kill. Headshots don't matter bro if you get hit with a Barret .50. Its anti-material brah. You wouldn't exist. People would think Bill Cosby showed up and had a jello party from all the pink/red mush all over the place.
even with all of AvP's flaws i still think its much funner.
I sincerely hop all three burn in nuclear fire.
5 days and 3 hours put into CoD4.
Words cannot describe the hatred that as accumulated after blowing $60 on the biggest letdown of my life.
"BF:BC2 will never approach these numbers. Someone explain to me why more players play MW2 than BF:BC2 if battlefield is the better game?"
Remember. If it ain't popular, it ain't shit. Psychonauts? Nah that game sucked cocks. Know what was wayyy wayyy better? Like, one of the bestest games of all time? Wii Sports. Why? Because more people play Wii Sports than play COD MW2! AMIRITTEEE???
NO MINE IS BETTER!
NO, YOU LIKE SHITTY GAMES!
NO! YOU LIKE SHITTY GAMES!
MW2 IS POPULAR AND FUN!
MW2 IS SHITTY AND UNBALANCED!
BC2 IS SHIT BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT AND IT HAS LESS USERS!
MW2 IS SHIT BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT AND IT HAS MORE USERS!
THATS BECAUSE MW2 CAME OUT 5 MONTHS AGO!
NO! ITS BECAUSE BC2 IS A SHITTY GAME!
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Not only that, but what kind of IDIOT journalist would consider Call of Duty: Modern Warefare a new IP? Modern Warfare was a sequel to Call of Duty 3; it's about as new an IP as Super Mario Galaxy!
I remember a time in the early 90's where everything was mellow, and fanboys suffered in silence. When they learned to open their mouths was the day that the gaming community looked back and saw what we had become.
The golden years are yet to come, but will the fanboys blockade it's arrival?
The point is, you have to completely ignore Call of Duty 1, 2, and 3 and Wii Sports for Devore's comment; that people avoid new IP, to make any sense.
Incidently, # of gamer tags and # of sales are different; how many copies have they sold?
Was that a typo or are you just comparing it to the mediocrity of CoD3?
Indeed. Despite some of the glitches that people have exploited (the care package one was the one I had the most problem with, just stopped playing for a couple days then came back on when it was fixed) I've quite enjoyed my time with MW2. Can't wait until the new maps are released. :D
Heck, you could even blame Call of Duty 3 for Modern Warfare not selling better, but no amount of us squabbling about semantics will change the fact that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 is a sequel to Treyarch's Call of Duty 3. And because it is a Call of Duty, it is complete fallacy to call Call of Duty 4 an original IP, no matter how much you like the Modern Warfare name.
That's easy. Call of Duty is Call of Duty. We buy it because we love Call of Duty, and want a game with Call of Duty in it. We buy Spiderman and Batman because we love Spiderman and Batman, and we want content with Spiderman and Batman in it.
It's a very hard pill to swallow, but bad game that sells well isn't a bad game. It is a game that delivers a customer experience worth paying for. Just Dance is a good game, whether you personally like it or not, because it sold millions on word of mouth, delivering content that was highly demanded. and Modern Warfare created a demand for Modern Warfare 2 content. Give them what they want, and no matter how bad you think the game is, the game is good because it fills the customer's needs.
Bad Company 2 could be big. However, it will take time for any game that doesn't have well known content behind it to accelerated. Heck, it took pokemon months for Red and Blue to get to the 10 million marks respectively, because the audience had to learn by word of mouth that the game had content the audience wanted. And just because Bad Company 2 is technically better, doesn't mean that Bad Company 2 has superior content.
Now, don't get me wrong; I LOVE Battlefield. Much more than I do CoD, in fact (well, the multiplayer, anyway). But I feel like a lot (not all) of the Battlefield love on this site comes purely from people who want nothing more than for it to "beat" MW2, whatever the fuck that means (since the two games simply cannot co-exist with the same fans, after all)...
Stop hating MW2 already. The exact same shit happened already when Halo 2 was released, jesus.
They buy a FIFA or Madden Game every year and a CoD game whenever it comes out. They maybe have a copy of Guitar Hero knocking about. Now i don't think any less of them, but they do really fuck up the impression that sales give publishers.
CoD is an easy, rewarding (too rewarding), pick-up-and-play game that all of your friends were playing around launch. It appeals to some hardcore gamers who were hoping it would be more like the last one, it appeals to casuals who heard about the last one, or the hype for this one, either way it sold left, right and centre.
Problem is once most of "us" (read: gameblog dwelling, hard to please gamers) realised how broken it was - seems to be an average of one prestige and a couple of ranks - we got sick and tired of it, realised that rather than the balance from the last one it had a whole pile of shit thrown in there without consideration of how it works or how it can be taken advantage of.
Plus glitches.
Plus a childish community.
Plus lag.
Did i mention glitches.
Non-recoil weapons.
Auto-aim up the arse.
Laser perfect accuracy.
Small maps with too many players, piss poor spawning, uninteresting game types.
etc etc etc.
It was OK for a little while, you could ignore the glitches and mute the kids, and sometimes playing round after round after round after round caring about nothing other than your personal score and your next killstreak reward was kinda fun, but it just didn't last for long.
In my personal opinion, Battlefield and MAG both piss all over MW2, MAG isn't as pretty but it's a vast, varied war not a hectic little deathmatch, layers of command and various working strategies. Battlefield i think LOOKS EVEN BETTER than CoD, and plays better to, it's bigger, more varied, has the whole dynamic objective based gameplay, extremely realistic weapons/accuracy/sound and where MAG and BF:BC2 take it from CoD easily is the community, more mature, no shouting and squeeling and insulting, just gamers, talking game and general banter.
Lovely.
I traded in Modern Borefare 2 for Heavy Rain and I'm so glad i did. Hadn't touched it since I got MAG.
Or you could just look at SexualChocolate's post. Saves me writing out lots of things.
...you haven't played MW2 yet you seems to know all about it? I've been playing since launch and have experienced little of any of those problems....no more than any other shooter online. Its just got more players than other shooters.
I get it though, the game is popular, the kids at school think its cooler to hate on it because of that. You should totally tell them all about your little post here, im sure their dicks will get hard.