There are quite a few folks with either an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Just over 23 million, in fact, as of numbers tallied following the first nine months of sales by its publisher. Activision revealed as much during an analyst call this afternoon, showing continued sales growth for the Call of Duty franchise versus install base numbers for the two HD consoles combined.
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For 3 maps they charged $10
For 5 maps they charged $15
If they were to raise the price to $20, then they'd include 2 more maps.
Even though $15-$20 for DLC in the timespan of one year for like 4 DLC packs sounds expensive for most gamers, a lot of people just play COD exclusively and Activision is going to ride that pony until the end.
well said man
As for MW3, I will not buy it so I will not buy any of it's DLC either.
I have friends who would surf through random Facebook profiles for hours and barely play their consoles! I know there's no accounting for taste, but WTF!
COD and its map packs are not very expensive when you break it down. I know COD is not for everyone on this site but I put over 20 days into MW2 online with my friends. I paid $60 bucks plus $30 for map packs... so $90 bucks for 480 hours of gaming.
Thats 18 Cents and hour! Where else can you entertain yourself for 18 cents an hour?
I know people hate on COD and it is deserving of criticism, but I do enjoy it with my friends and we have fun. So a $90 dollar investment for that kind of replay is worth it. Especially when I'll also by awesome SP games like God of War and inFamous and be done with the campaign in 12 hours or so. So to me its just all a convenient way to take cheap shots at COD.
No, the "shit" you hear predominantly occurs on the Internet within informed gamer hubs such as N4G. Given the 18 million map packs sold in the first nine months, its pretty obvious that not too many people in the outside world are bitching about the price.
That's common business sense, old supply and demand at work. In no way is this stating Sales = Quality. It just means a lot of people wanted to play a familiar game that they enjoyed.
I don't even see an issue with the entire thing of releasing the same thing (although I disagree that it isn't the same thing).
One could almost argue that all shooters are the same thing or heck, that all video games are the same thing. They all work on a screen don't they for entertainment?
If people want it, let them have it.
It really is an elitist attitude.
Funnily enough aside from my Ultimate Metal Gear Solid HD collection my two other most anticipated games are Skyrim (shocking eh!) and Catherine.
But back to the article, those are some immense numbers! There maybe people who don't like Activision as a publisher and may dislike the CoD games, but noone can deny they're obviously doing something right! And i'm not self righteous enough to be telling people how to spend their time - everyone's entitled to do what they enjoy!
Only thing that bugs me and it's quite a major thing is, the stereotype CoD player is the 13 year old boy running his mouth (don't flame me, i only said the stereotype not all or even the majority) - and most of the CoD games are 16+....i've never seen such group ignorance of an age rating of any product anywhere else! It's CoD so noone bats an eyelid lol.
I just feel burnt out on FPS's, like the whole format isn't doing it for me anymore and developers can't seem to find anything new to do with it!
I'm almost turned off of Skyrim, just because it's in the first person! Maybe I'll hold out until I get a capable PC and there's a third person mod!
Popular? Surely. Right? Debatable.
What do you call it when a product has a stranglehold on a market and uses that influence to force people to pay higher prices for something that they shouldn't have to pay that much for?
Oh yeah, a monopoly. A manipulative, greedy monopoly.
And popular for the general masses may not equal good for you or I, but it obviously does for them, as they're the ones that keep buying it, and i'm sure when they're finally sick of it, they will stop buying it. I know alot of people who game casually who buy it, and they're far from being idiots.
"I'm gonna be the first kid on my block with a MW3 Kill"
j/k
That's no excuse. I've made quite few friends while playing online games. Either they like my gaming skills and add me or prob hate me for pawning them and then they ask to friend me. Whatever LOL.
If your current friends dont share the same hobby you can have more friends who do :D
OT: I only bought one map pack for MW2 and never again. Had bought before for BF2142 and BF2 though on PC.
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And as someone not into COD, I have to deal with a market that carters to it more and more.
Huh?
So with that same reasoning, are you saying that buyers of DLC only play that game for which they bought the DLC? I'm trying to understand the reasoning in your comment.
I've done it with a few games now
If other devs are trying to be like COD, that's not Activision's fault. What annoys me more than COD's silly success is devs who try to be like COD and then fans who decide to blame COD instead
In fact, quality is pretty subjective when it comes to games and calling others "stupid" for buying something is rather immature in my opinion.
seems like we're a dying species.. :x
To each their own. A concept many seem to struggle with.
assuming he bought it in november thats 450 hours over 10 months
in comparison, watching 1 hours worth of TV a day for 10 months would equal many more hours but i bet we all exceed that without anyone making "your wasting your time" comments
just my thoughts
Only because they know they'll be crashin at my place for the weekend and enjoying bf3 in all it's glory as I keep my lan up to date for gaming.
I have blackops on my lan but their game of choice when they come over is bc2. I think slot of people are going to suprised
Battlefield who?
Also, I find it a bit humorous that Black Ops sold more map packs then both Bad Company games sold combined. That's a lot of growth in a short period of time. It's obvious people dig the COD.
correct me if im wrong, but thats what i remember...
Having such a strong competior like BF3 will be very, very, very bad for MW3, and the COD franchise in general.
Don't forget, Dice/EA is marketing BF3 mostly as a PC game. Now I'm withholding judgement on the game itself until I play it on a console, but it'd be a pretty ignorant statement to say Battlefield 3 is going to take anything from COD. Since they are marketed towards different types of players. I don't know many COD gamers who would like or be good at BF games and vice versa.
No the hype for Battlefield 3 has been a 100 times greater then any other EA game. The situation is not at all comparable. It is quite obvious that the MW3 will have a HUGE drop in sales from Black Ops.
Considering its like buying the game twice.
Except one time you get the a full game experience (if that's your thing) and the second time around, with all these map packs you pay another $60 to run around in a maze.
WAY TO GO FOOLS!
but what they are definitely not doing is reading or commenting on these forums
Anyway I'm sticking with KZ and BF. They have kids too but majority of them are mature. Plus I like bigger maps and riding vehicles.
this may seem normal to most of you but i dont buy COD iterations, never have, never will, im not against FPS, i loved killzone/resistance but COD just doesnt do it for me
with sales like this...it will never die and acti have little reason to make significant changes, it wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt an annual game...oh well
i'll give a bubble back
people that didn't wanna count that 18 million dlc is worth 270 million
not that im telling people what to buy,they should play what they want but would it kill people to play some thing outher then cod or a shooter! all the time i like shooters too but damn theres alot of people who mostly only own cod games.
Activision sure is makeing a lot of money tho.
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