Call of Duty Nearly Loses All of Black Ops 6 Launch Numbers on Steam Just One Month After Launch

Call of Duty on Steam has lost all the players it gained with Black Ops 6's launch over the course of one month.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Yikes

[DivineHand125]

It's unfortunate but are in the age of greed. OfCourse people would be turned off by them running 3 battle passes concurrently.

[Knushwood Butt]

That's not good for those engagement metrics.

[RauLeCreuset]

Someone was just trying to press me to state that it's a fact that COD was a major success last year, as if there's enough data available to make that determination. MS may not yet have enough data to make the determination. They're going to keep the general public in the dark, resorting to trying to read the tea leaves by looking at things like Steam engagement to make an educated guess about an engagement metric that still isn't worth much without additional context.

[RauLeCreuset]

@Salty

"It’s the biggest game of the year. In what way was it not a major success?"

How are you defining "major success" without defining what a major success is and identifying and providing the metrics used to determine it?

That's the problem with throwing around empty phrases and demanding they be assumed to be factual.

I would think COD would have a long way to fall to not be a success, but how do I state for fact that it's a major success without talking out of my rear?

[Gamingsince1981]

Just ignore obscures alt account it'll be gone soon

@obscures alt

I love facts actually, like the fact xbox is dead, the fact xbox owners don't buy games and that's one of the main reasons it's now dead, also the fact MS aren't even close to making the 70 billion they spent on COD, the fact that xbox is now a third party publisher, the fact they NEED playstation players now to survive 🤣. I love the fact you're a sad lil guy that can't handle how bad xbox has done and are now delusional.

Anyway bye bye now lil buddy. I won't be reading your replies, not that your account will last that long anyway. 🙃

[RauLeCreuset]

@Salty

"It’s the biggest game of the year. In what way was it not a major success?"

There are some interesting places this conversation can go in considering the challenges of stating for fact that something is a "major success" absent an agreed upon, authoritative definition unbeholden to subjective interpretation and the challenges of measuring major success absent knowledge of the metrics and values needed to determine it.

However, I do see that your account is only a few hours old. Would you mind first completing a simple one question test to verify that you are a human capable of reasoning and not a bot? It's one simple question that a human child between the ages of 5 and 7 could answer correctly:

Question: A boy asks his mother to gift him a dog for his 12th birthday. The mother agrees, on the condition that the boy must take responsibility for walking the dog each day, once in the morning and once at night. How often will the boy be expected to walk the dog each day?

[RauLeCreuset]

Edit: Wrong reply.

[badz149]

Steam gamers as usual will go back to their CS2, PUBG, DOTA2, GTAV...you know...the usuals

[dveio]

I won't ever go and disagree with the mind boggling success the CoD franchise had.

It's become what Kotick said himself years ago: an annual, profits driving monster.

But there you go. I won't go as far as claiming CoD still isn't a household benchmark.

But I'd argue that the franchise itself was now being put in a critical situation.

You either will have Microsoft sucking it dry completely over the next up to 5 years. Or serving it a reboot.

But because it's Xbox and their non-existing ability to create something on their own, I'd stick with the way they've perfected.

I can't deny Microsoft and ABK is a "perfect" match.

[Snookies12]

Considering the PC port is awful, it doesn't surprise me. It's astounding that a game series that makes so much money can't even get their PC version to run well.

I tried it and was able to get 100+ frames per second on ultra/high settings, but kept noticing some odd lag every few seconds. Tried dropping all settings to medium/low and still kept getting that same lag. Turns out, it's just a known issue for the game on PC. Makes zero sense when I'm getting triple digit framerates on ultra to have ANY issues when scaled back to low graphics/resolution.

I wanted to give the series another chance, as my last game was the original Modern Warfare 2 back on PS3. After this experience, I uninstalled and am never coming back. No excuse for such an "acclaimed" series to have a crappy port like this.

[NoLifeLoser]

I stopped playing cuz of cheaters

[anast]

It's not beating Counter Strike or PubG on PC, which are far more superior shooters.

[shaenoide]

To be fair the article is not about the repartition of players across all plateforms. It's about retention not being as good as it used to be.