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Black Ops 6 best performing CoD in 10yrs (Half of PC players on GamePass // First time xbox players outnumber PS)

Mister Wolf

Gold Member
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Topher

Identifies as young
Cause he's saying something positive about Xbox.

I guess he was a bit more trustworthy in September.


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But in that case this guy was just saying stuff that had already been stated by Jason Shreier.

 

RickMasters

Member
I would caution that those that are playing on GP likely won’t stick with it. They likely prefer variety over sticking to one game considering they are paying for gamepass.

Lets see the numbers in three months. I doubt Xbox will remain the primary driver of BLOPS6 gaming traffic.


I been playing COD on GP endlessly since MW3 dropped on GP. It was kind of surreal to just load up my Xbox and notice Blops 6 was already installed. I’ll be playing it right up until the next cod….. but of course ill
Be playing indy, avowed and stalker 2 alongside it……


All while I still have a ridiculous backlog, across Xbox and PC.


I can’t speak for others but as a gamer I love this situation. Sometimes I don’t even know what to play….. too many choices…. so I just load up COD and work out what I wanna play next. GP is awesome like that.
 

RickMasters

Member
No matter what Microsoft is going to keep the conversation focused on engagement and game pass. They'll certainly downplay unit sales.


Engagement usually leads to the sale of DLC. The more time you invest in a game the more likely you are to buy add ins for it. It’s not like MS are the of my ones who focus on egagement….. pretty sure if concord had high engagement it would have lasted a while longer…. Or maybe not… apparently it sucked beyond repair….


All I’m saying is all these companies look at engagement as a metric of success outside of hard sales….games like fortnight are making all the money and you don’t even buy those games up front….. do you see epic stressin about it?
 

twilo99

Gold Member
I would caution that those that are playing on GP likely won’t stick with it. They likely prefer variety over sticking to one game considering they are paying for gamepass.

Lets see the numbers in three months. I doubt Xbox will remain the primary driver of BLOPS6 gaming traffic.

You can primarily play CoD and take breaks with other games along the way.. that’s what GP is good for
 

clarky

Gold Member
Based on the 8% (xbox) and 16% (playstation) figures shared in this thread, the number of xbox players would likely have needed a ~100% increase over previous years. I'll leave that up to you guys to determine how feasible or not that is.

Looks like a 159% increase from this source.

 

sainraja

Member
Seriously? 😲

If they're just giving subs (temporarily) away for free, then I wouldn't be surprised to see the numbers balloon. That just moves the goalpost out a while longer then. When they stop giving it away for free, how many people remain subscribed?
The point isn't to balloon the numbers. I think the idea is to introduce Game Pass to people and since it is being shared by an existing subscriber, it might have more "weight" since they are essentially recommending it. How successful that it ends up being in the long term remains to be seen but I don't think they are trying to balloon the numbers.
 
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Ozriel

M$FT
You think the playerbase for COD remains the same one month after launch? Millions of gamers play the game only for the campaign or a few weeks of the multi-player before moving on

Apparently, only around 10% of players stick around to finish the campaign for COD games. I’m also not sure a lot of folks are paying $70 just to play the usually short campaigns.

The multiplayer is by far the most important component…and people tend to play that for awhile.

More players on xbox compared to ps
Free game vs paid game.

Rocket science uh?

Free?
 

sainraja

Member
I am not sure why we are debating whether or not COD engagement is going to go up on Xbox. It is going to go up because the game was added to Game Pass. COD has always been a big title and its never needed Game Pass for engagement, so we know MS wants it to boost GS subs, is it doing that? That should be the question if anything lol...anyway it shouldn't surprise anyone because it is COD.

Engagement is going to go up. If GS subscribers weren't playing COD, they are now. If they were paying before and have a sub, now they are playing it via GP sub. What this translates to long term for Game Pass remains to be seen IMO.
 
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StueyDuck

Member
Hasn't this guy got a questionable rep.

The real numbers will come out eventually, may as well wait a week then react to something right now.

If it is truly the best cod has done in 10 years old Philly boy will be frothy at his loins just to get the word out (to prove the actiblizz purchase wasn't a bust)
 
There's no way this is the first time Xbox has had more players the PS. Your telling me 360 had less COD players than the PS3 BS. This guy was also instantly debunked by Warren during his last "rumor".
 
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GHG

Gold Member
Decent sample size you think?

Not a bad sample size by any means, but by virtue of it predominantly being true achievements accounts it will be people more engaged with the platform (and gaming in general) than your average user.

One thing is for certain though, if any of these touted numbers turn out to be true it won't take long for Microsoft to shout them from the rooftops while they are still hot.
 

clarky

Gold Member
Not a bad sample size by any means, but by virtue of it predominantly being true achievements accounts it will be people more engaged with the platform (and gaming in general) than your average user.

One thing is for certain though, if any of these touted numbers turn out to be true it won't take long for Microsoft to shout them from the rooftops while they are still hot.
Brace yourself if true.
Although i still can't figure out if it will be a win for MS or not. Seems reckless at a glance putting it on gamepass day one. We won't know for sure if this has worked out for them for quite a while,one weekend doesn't mean much to be fair in the bigger picture.

We never get numbers from that bnet launcher... I'm surprised they haven't rolled into xbox yet
Yean I know, be better if Xbox rolled into Bnet on PC though. Thats a perfectly good launcher and platform going to waste while we get forced into dealing with the store.
 
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hlm666

Member
Makes sense, Concords massive success has sucked the playerbase away from what had been the popular games so it's probably not more xbox players as much as it's just less ps players because they are busy with concord.

sorry, not sorry.
 

BennyBlanco

aka IMurRIVAL69
I’m sure they are counting GP PC users as Xbox users. As long as exec bonuses are tied to these metrics I expect them to twist themselves into pretzels to fudge the numbers. On a side note:
this game is fun and I really like it
 

clarky

Gold Member
I’m sure they are counting GP PC users as Xbox users. As long as exec bonuses are tied to these metrics I expect them to twist themselves into pretzels to fudge the numbers. On a side note:
this game is fun and I really like it
Theres no indication that that is the case. The tweet even separates the two.
 
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clarky

Gold Member
Makes sense, Concords massive success has sucked the playerbase away from what had been the popular games so it's probably not more xbox players as much as it's just less ps players because they are busy with concord.

sorry, not sorry.
Funny you started your post with "makes sense"
 

Jigsaah

Gold Member
Did Playstation folks boycott BLOPS6? I find it hard to believe Xbox players outnumber Playstation players.

Really good game btw. Runs flawlessly on PC.
 

analog_future

Resident Crybaby

All of this sounds like bullshit. lol

Same source of Microsoft multiplatform push slow downed or paused a few days before Nadella stated the opposite to shareholders?
Wait for something official.

Engagement

Did this person misunderstand the numbers?


Are they really counting PC gamers as "xbox players"?

It is kind of mpossible more players on xbox only counting console.

My thoughts exactly. Smells like "engagement" bullshit.

If the PR machinery isn't at full force by now is because they are having a real bad time figuring out a way to spin whatever happened with BO6.

Half truths like the "34 million Game Pass" subscribers earlier this year are easily caught nowadays and the "engagement" BS has really short legs.


i doubt all these stats

Unlikely.



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