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Infinity Ward has revealed that its Xbox Live-topping shooter Call of Duty 4 is attracting "between 1.2 and 1.3 million users every day" just on Microsoft's service - with PS3 numbers "monstrously huge".
Speaking to Eurogamer in London last week during the unveiling of the new downloadable maps for the game, producer Mark Rubin revealed that Infinity Ward had been hitting these figures "consistently for the past two-to-three months, Monday through Sunday. It's crazy."
He added: "That's just 360. There's even more on the other platforms [PS3 and PC], but we just don't have the same numbering system. Overall, even without the other consoles, we are beating the competition. PS3 numbers are monstrously huge. No other game has come close, either online current, or total unique users in a day."
The hugely popular contemporary update to the studio's previously WWII-focused war franchise has been fighting with Bungie's Halo 3 for the top spot on the Xbox Live rankings since its release, but has pulled clear in recent months. Speaking on the rivalry, Rubin commented:
"We've created a lot of heartache for a lot of companies who go up against it. I think Halo's website says they get something around 845,000 to a million [per day]."
Call of Duty is understood to have sold over 7 million units so far. While Rubin refused to confirm the percentage of online users, he admitted it had exceeded expectations:
"I don't have an exact number for you, but it turns out to be a startling number of people. For a lot this is there first time playing a multiplayer game on console or PC. We're getting really high numbers."
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captainrentboy
31/03/08 @ 13:47
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I tried to love it, but the fury of having to fight against folk 30+ levels higher than me right from the off was winding me up. Is that still the case, or do they now have an actual ranking system that's fair and works?
I still dip in and out of Halo 3 now and again, but to be honest online MP in general just isn't my thing nowadays, too many twats on there taking it all far too seriously. |
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jonthepymm
31/03/08 @ 13:53
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Fighting people 30+ levels higher isn't really a problem though, is it? I just got the game on Saturday and expected to be hammered - but I've won a third of all my free-for-all games. I don't think the level makes a lot of difference.
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QPRHOOPS81
31/03/08 @ 13:55
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thats how i feel. I watched a friend playing Source and he was head shotting people from miles away before i had even seen them. Him and his kind are the reason i normally avoid online fps's. I just get completly owned.
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captainrentboy
31/03/08 @ 13:56
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''Fighting people 30+ levels higher isn't really a problem though, is it?''
....... Yes! Especially when you're shit! :/ |
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sickpuppysoftware
31/03/08 @ 13:57
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The levels don't seem to make that much difference. I've seen people with decent prestige levels that were so bad they can only have levelled up by playing 8 hours a day every day since launch. I've also seen people on level 8 hammer everyone else, so much so I'm convinced it was somebody who'd reached top level and reset as a n00b for a laugh.
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captainrentboy
31/03/08 @ 14:19
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''So more people are playing COD4 for free than those paying £40 a year to do so.''
Of course they are, because the PS3 only has this one title that is actually any cop online, the 360 has bloody hundreds. It's simple really, quite like your mind. |
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bag-in-box
31/03/08 @ 14:29
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"Of course they are, because the PS3 only has this one title that is actually any cop online, the 360 has bloody hundreds.
It's simple really, quite like your mind" Of course they are, since the rest of millions boxes are on vacation in Germany ;) |
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Aside from a few sporadic attempts with UT2003 or something like that several years ago, COD4 is the first FPS (or any non-MMO or racing game for that matter) I've taken online in my ~20 years of gaming, and I'm definately hooked :).
I've clocked in a little over 16 hours on the PS3 version so far, and made it to level 28, and while I've yet to manage more than eight or nine kills in a match (I stick to TDM and Headquarters), because... well, I suck :p, it's still the some of the best fun I've had in a game in the last few years.
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"No other game has come close, either online current, or total unique users in a day"
Rubbish. Counter-Strike has 1.3 million peak concurrent players. I dread to think how many people play it over the course of 24 hours! Edit: you'll just have to take my word for it that CS makes up the vast, vast majority of that figure.
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hiddenranbir
31/03/08 @ 15:22
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Has this, then, finally topped CS's consistently high playing numbers at any given time of day?
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headdude, what's your problem with xbox mate? did it rape your gf or something? day in, day out you spread your problems with a... box? I mean, it could be understandable if you were going nuts with the "oh my god! so amazing" PS3, but no... your thing is "xbox is so bad, it sells so less, and Bill Gates is evil"..., I mean it's fun, but too much is kinda pathetic.
Why?
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SeesThroughAll
31/03/08 @ 15:26
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Oh the shock!
More people play a multiplatform game online than a platform exclusive one! |
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WinterSnowblind
31/03/08 @ 15:51
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Headbog, perhaps you'd feel more at home at the Gametrailers forums, with the rest of the fanboys and screaming kids. I'm sure the kids over at Gamefaqs would love to take you in as well. I would just add you to my ignore list, but your responses are just so darn entertaining.
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A bit off-topic(ish), but I found it so funny: http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOkF0McZKIw
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Amoebalove
31/03/08 @ 20:26
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@headbog
And what’s wrong with loving the cock? Are you a homophobe as well as a cock?
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CreepinJesus
01/04/08 @ 12:25
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I still remember that first weekend on Halo 3 - it did say 2.4 million players were online at one point.
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