Black Ops Beats MW2 in Launch Day Sales

[ENKC]

ITT: Haters gonna hate.

CoD 4 was the greatest shooter ever made for its time. World at War was brilliant (especially for Zombies) although it always seems to get treated as a sideshow. MW 2 made some massive and nigh on unforgiveable missteps regarding the PC platform, but otherwise brought a number of improvements. As for Black Ops, it finally seems to be looking to combine the best of all worlds, with the good ideas from MW combined with the Treyarch style of dedicated servers, zombies mode and so on.

In short, the fun police need to stop telling me not to enjoy the game.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

Does anyone else now see the Call Of Duty franchise as the Transformers of the video game industry? Not actually anything new or original or even that special but still rakes in the money and widely adored.

 

[lee1287]

Why? Havent ven seen ANY marketing really, and i didnt buy it because AC comes out tuesday =0

 

[gl1koz3]

Oh god, I wish people like you would shut the hell up. Not everyone likes what you like, so grow up and learn the definition of the word opinion. Games don't sell this much by being "mediocre." Get off your stupid I hate everything popular bandwagon.

On topic, I'm rather surprised. I thought Black Ops would be slightly lower, due to not being a Modern Warfare title. Still, good for Treyarch.

Oh, the irony.

I've emboldened the port of the post I'm assuming you think is ironic, and it's not. Like I said above, I don't have an issue with anyone's opinion, I have an issue with people who think they're better because of it and people who will hate anything just because it's popular.

I expanded the part that does.

Either way, the game's no more than another CoD. I've just tried it; at least the SP has gotten beyond boring, so it's pretty much what I expected.

As for the irony, the defense of CoD is ironic, because you say people have opinions and should "shut the fuck up", yet you be defensive about it. At least it looks like you are. If you're not, then it's certainly crossing the line and you are.

 

[Dorian Cornelius Jasper]

Yeah, Halo was xbox only. Black Ops was multiplatform. Compare xbox only sales before claiming 'bigger than halo'.

But from a purely literal perspective, and in the sense of the wider gaming culture, a multiplatform game really would be bigger than a mere exclusive.

Only FPS players who bought an xbox might have a copy of a Halo game, but everybody might have played a COD. From both a financial and long-term cultural perspective, yeah, it's no surprise an exclusive would be smaller. This is why devs are leery about making exclusives these days. Exclusives simply cannot, by their very nature, be as big as multiplatform releases and they know it.

Wasn't hard to do. You could sell more copies of a turd in a box if you said it had dedicated servers.

Yes, it's kind of a big deal for us PC gamers.

I'm not surprised; people are always willing to pay for more 'gun-toting musclemen growling in two-rocks-ground-together style voices' drivel before going for something new and half decent.

Kudos to Darth Kotick, he'll be screaming in delight as he smothers himself naked in molten gold.

There's nothing stopping me from buying both indie and big-name releases and I'm sure the same goes for many others out there. If anything, the only games hurt by Codblops' release are just Other FPSes. It's not as though it's cutting into a piece of the Minecraft or Recettear pie.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Wasn't hard to do. You could sell more copies of a turd in a box if you said it had dedicated servers.

That made me laugh. Have a free cookie!