Gamasutra: "Call of Duty: Black Ops II held on to the top of the UK sales charts for a second week despite an 81 percent drop in sales, keeping the newly released Hitman: Absolution at bay."
GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales
Wow, good games never get old I guess.
CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.
Many players on social media are now reporting unannounced matchmaking fixes have been put in place by Activision ranging from Call of Duty 3 to Modern Warfare 2 to Black Ops 2, on Xbox 360. Players are reporting that player counts are updating, lobbies forming, and matchmaking times have been reduced. Neither Activision nor Microsoft have commented on the matter when reached out to at this time. This is currently impacting both 360 and BC versions of the games. PS3 is not affected at this time.
Reports:
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Multiple users coming forward saying the games are finally working again after years of server issues. Note that not all issues such as player counts are totally fixed at this time however matchmaking is fully working again. With legacy Call of Duty games releasing on Game Pass within the next 2 years, it does make sense for these servers to eventually be corrected. Good to see the preservation of these legendary games. Hopefully PS3 receives the same treatment for these legacy titles!
“Activision Unexpectedly Fixes Old Call of Duty Servers, Just One Day After FTC Verdict”
Imagine that.
Conspiracy theory: MS have been planning on purchasing ABK for a long time. They let Sony outbid them for having console-exclusive CoD stuff/being first for certain dlc so the PlayStation player base would increase.
Years later, MS buy ABK, with plans to make CoD either exclusive/platform exclusive features etc with the release of a new console (Xbox Series X2?) So the established CoD player base migrates over to their platform, taking a huge percentage off Sony?
Wild theory
When Hitman 3 recently changed its name to Hitman World of Assassination, fans had no idea how meaningful the moment was. On the outside it looked like a simple thing: Hitman 3 would now be known by this name and include levels from Hitman 2 and 3 - the trilogy would all be in one place. But on the inside, at IO Interactive, much more was going on.
You mean destroyed it with this tethered single-player campaign BS... And only the first few levels of the third modern game were on the disc! I'll never support this crap at any price-point! They've lost me as a customer.
Game was released on 23rd in the UK, chart dates to the week ending 24 November: http://www.chart-track.co.u...
so sales account for 2 days only ..
"I reviewed the game giving it a middling 7.5, and Metacritic agrees with me" - what a disease to the gaming industry.
Well, has there been any marketing for the game? Heck, I didn't even know it was out as of last week. Something tells me Sony is hurting so bad that they can't even afford marketing for their games at the moment.
"I reviewed the game giving it a middling 7.5, and Metacritic agrees with me"
nope not at all. The game was reviewed by biased nintendofanboys who called themselves "Professional"
giving it a low score cause its "Smash bros clone", while its not a clone at all
Sony doesn't advertise even when they are doing well. No wonder they can't get into people's heads like say cod or halo.....I wonder if the average gamer realizes that the ad campaigns for cod or halo is actually larger than the entire development budget!
Edit- ill say this. PsAllstars for me reminds me that games are not always about sweeping epics or serious motives. PsAllstars is just fun! I'm garbage at it....but it's tons of fun! Add a friend or three and its retarded how many hrs can be lost to it!