Call of Duty: Black Ops Has How Many Concurrent Players?

The hype for Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops has been incredible, and it seems like the game's launch this week is off to a stellar start. Developer Treyarch has already noted that there were 1 million concurrent users playing the title on Xbox Live in the first hour. Separately, IndustryGamers has observed last night and during the day today around 3.5 million users playing the game on Microsoft's service.

[donniebaseball]

Wow, if it hit 3.5 million for real, that's nuts! Go Black Ops!

[nintenflo]

I was on xbox live last night and my friends were playing black ops ( i was playin borderlands at the time ) and one of them mentioned that there were over 3 million playing so this is probably acurate.

On black ops... ive only played the multiplayer but i have to say its excellent, the game feels super ballanced, the maps are all interesting, killstreaks are ballanced ( the rc car which i was worried about is even ballnced as you have to choose between using that OR the spy plane(uav) and the spy plane is very usefull in combat so its a hard choice )

I can always tell how well balanced a game is by my KDR, in MW2 it was shocking but in black ops and games like MoH,BFBC1+2 etc its quite good!

[T9X69]

"one of them mentioned that there were over 3 million playing so this is probably acurate. "

That would be correct. About an hour or two ago, there was around 3.3 million people on. Right now there's still 2,893,138 players online playing Black Ops. I can see why to, Black Ops is a superb COD game. I've always thought Treyarch made the best COD games (Yes even over COD4) but this game just has so much content and replay ability for $60, when most games don't even carry 1/3 of what Black Ops offers.

[gtamike]

Thats alot of Black Ops (mod of mw2) games sold.

[PR0X1]

I was just on there and it was like 3.9million

[SnakeShady]

not bad for a 60$ beta.

[Bolts]

This is the online game that MW 2 should've been.

[gamerdude132]

How long will that statement last before the shit hits the fan?

[vhero]

I disagree I got black ops and your trying to justify your purchase i have had both BO and MW2. They are both poor as hell. Also theres practically no differnce online the new cash system is pointless too.

[0oAngeluso0]

It hit 3.7 Million last night around 10:30 p.m. est.
I admit, I'm hooked on the game, there isn't any of the issues MW2 had, the maps are pretty solid, guns with no stopping power is a blessing to be honest, it evens things out. This game is well deserving to have that many players.

[Paradise Lost]

i've never seen so many player in 1 game before.

[BabyTownFrolics]

at around 6:30pm EST there were 3.4 million players

played some ground war and zombies

multiplayer feels tight and heavy, I am finding that the matches feel more methodical and strategic as compared to the chaotic running and gunning of MW2.

[Animal Mutha 76]

When I was on last night in the UK the screen said there was 3003004 people online on Xbox.

I'm assuming that number is just XBL and not somehow cleverly including PSN.

Dig the world map with the day/night cylce shown. Europe and NA were lit up like an xmas tree. And even a white dot or two in the middle east, Japan and China.

Edit - even more impressive considering 3 of my friends online were playing with their new Kinect wii turd casual let's sail a raft and dance like my dad device.

[NBT91]

Well I just got back from refunding my coopy, the game is pretty bad.

[user858621]

Just been playing now with ma m8t sme multiplayer, and this is a true sequal to cod4, the weapons r more balanced it feels more realistic and shooting and gaining killstreaks require more skill

mw2 for kids
black ops for real gamers

[BigKev45]

Yeah, Black Ops is the real deal. Much more balanced then MW2.

[Close_Second]

...MoH had about 6k playing (PS3). Hmmm, MoH RIP.

[donniebaseball]

Wow, yeah that's terrible.