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Activision has announced more details around Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 that speak to the game's popularity, though the publisher has not disclosed a sales number for the title as of yet.

In a statement, Activision said Black Ops 6 is now the "biggest Call of Duty ever" over its first 30 days when it comes to total players, total hours played, and total matches played. Before this, Activision said Black Ops 6 broke records for the same categories over its first three days.​

Developer Treyarch thanked fans for their support and announced that a double XP weekend for Black Ops 6 will begin this Wednesday, November 27. That's a few days before the actual weekend, but Treyarch is no doubt kicking things off early due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US.

In addition to double XP, Black Ops 6 is adding new multiplayer playlists on November 27. These include Prop Hunt, Stakeout 24/7, and Hardcore Stakeout 24/7.​

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Had Biggest Launch-Period Player Total In Series' History

Black Ops 6 is breaking records, thanks in part to Game Pass.

www.gamespot.com

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

extended double xp

 

[LectureMaster]

The power of Game Pass.

 

[Three]

Repetitive news they're tweeting from two weeks ago:

"According to Activision, Black Ops 6 had the highest opening weekend numbers for any game in the franchise among total players, total hours played, and total matches."

Meanwhile actual sales were lower than MW3 which wasn't even that big a seller compared to other releases in the series. Guess we found out what they meant by "performing".

 

[TheAmazingSpiderMan]

Where's the engagement memes at??

 

[GHG]

Sales?

 

[Games of Today]

I highly doubt this. I remember booting up Black Ops 2 and seeing 600,000 players online. There is no way they even touched that number.

 

[skyfinch]

Phil Ops.

 

[havoc00]

 

[twilo99]

Sales?

Very poor because of gamepass obviously

 

[BigLee74]

Activision says something about their own game. NeoGAF doesn’t believe them .

Simple fact is COD MP is as popular as ever and shows no signs of slowing down. This will always be the case until it gets some decent competition.

It also helps that it is a great game of course!

 

[LordOcidax]

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Activision says something about their own game. NeoGAF doesn’t believe them .

Simple fact is COD MP is as popular as ever and shows no signs of slowing down. This will always be the case until it gets some decent competition.

It also helps that it is a great game of course!

If we believed GAF, CoD would have been dead like 15 years ago.

 

[jm89]

Very poor because of gamepass obviously

So how about gamepass subscriber numbers? Awfully quiet after satyas vague comments.

 

[LordOcidax]

If we believed GAF, CoD would have been dead like 15 years ago.

And the Switch is DOA

 

[DeepEnigma]

How many bullets fired?

 

[EviLore]

Stakeout 24/7 returning, hell yeah.

 

[Saber]

Thats cash money baby...wait, is it?

 

[Sanepar]

I highly doubt this. I remember booting up Black Ops 2 and seeing 600,000 players online. There is no way they even touched that number.

It beats that easy. Game has peaks of 250k only on steam, then u have gamepass version on pc too + ps5 + xbox series.

 

[adamsapple]

The Phil Spencer Effect.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Activision says something about their own game. NeoGAF doesn’t believe them .

b-bu-bu what about the sales!

 

[Three]

Activision says something about their own game. NeoGAF doesn’t believe them .

Simple fact is COD MP is as popular as ever and shows no signs of slowing down. This will always be the case until it gets some decent competition.

It also helps that it is a great game of course!

By "Neogaf" do you mean one person in this thread?

 

[LordBritish]

Bring back that damn cool crazy opening weekend map where its chaos on that one floor of that building... nuketown will never get old but its getting old..

was that stakeout?

 

[Ceadeus]

Well, say what you will about season pass and WZ but cod never had more people playing and addicted to buying their season.

 

[Little Chicken]

Stakeout 24/7

 

[BigLee74]

By "Neogaf" do you mean one person in this thread?

Loads of other threads on this very same news too (it’s not new news).

Edit: but yeah, singular in this thread so far!

 

[EN250]

Sales?

*FREE™ on Gamepass

*You'll have to pay a monthly subscription in order to access games for Free™**

**Free™ is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation

 

[clarky]

I highly doubt this. I remember booting up Black Ops 2 and seeing 600,000 players online. There is no way they even touched that number.

They will have absolutely smashed 600k ccu, there was over 300k ccu on steam alone on the second weekend. Granted some of those players would have been on Warzone or MWIII, but 600k ccu for COD these days is peanuts.

 

[Little Chicken]

I highly doubt this. I remember booting up Black Ops 2 and seeing 600,000 players online. There is no way they even touched that number.

Well obviously they did and surpassed it.

Congrats to XBOX for another GaaS hit!

 

[clarky]

Bring back that damn cool crazy opening weekend map where its chaos on that one floor of that building... nuketown will never get old but its getting old..

was that stakeout?

It says in the OP that its back on the 27th.

 

[TIGERCOOL]

The power of Game Pass.

Some friends and I picked up the new CoD for the first time in like a decade (outside of some dicking around in warzone) because of gamepass... and honestly we're having a blast. Simple formula pretty much perfected, even if it lacks depth or substance and you know it isnt particularly good for you. It's the McDonalds of video games (in the most positive way one can suggest such a thing)

 

[Mister Wolf]

Good job Microsoft.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Game Pass Saving Gaming

 

[Kvally]

Repetitive news they're tweeting from two weeks ago:

Opening weekend =/= first 30 days.

 

[FrankWza]

Who influenced the decision to add a character that goes by they and did that help engagement?

 

[MarkMe2525]

*FREE™ on Gamepass

*You'll have to pay a monthly subscription in order to access games for Free™**

**Free™ is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation

To be fair, their tag is "Play with Gamepass"

 

[RaptorGTA]

Curious as to how the games current numbers are. I enjoyed it at launch and played with some friends. But I am finding the maps just aren't as fun. I played a few matches this weekend but just have mostly put it down.

 

[Three]

Opening weekend =/= first 30 days.

Cumulative "total players, total hours and total matches" do not decrease. If it beat franchise records on the opening weekend it very likely would "beat" it every week thereafter because it's cumulative. They could repeat this news every week thereafter.


The unlikely scenario of this not happening is that a game in the franchise in the past bombed on opening weekend then became popular after and that has never happened in CoD and rarely ever happened with any other game even.

 

[Goalus]

Repetitive news they're tweeting from two weeks ago:

Not repetitive for those with reading comprehension.

 

[Kvally]

Cumulative "total players, total hours and total matches" do not decrease. If it beat franchise records on the opening weekend it very likely would "beat" it every week thereafter because it's cumulative. They could repeat this news every week thereafter.


The unlikely scenario of this not happening is that a game in the franchise in the past bombed on opening weekend then became popular after and that has never happened in CoD and rarely ever happened with any other game even.

Ok

 

[adamsapple]

Stakeout 24/7

 

[PixelatedBeast]

These numbers dont mean anything to me. COD will never top the gameplay from 10 year old Battlefield 3 or 4.

 

[Three]

Not repetitive for those with reading comprehension.

Cool I look forward to the same fresh and fascinating news next fortnight with the same cumulative numbers then.

Nintendo should get in on this too.

"Switch total consoles in 4 years beat all other nintendo home consoles"

"Switch total consoles in 4years +(2 weeks) beat all other nintendo home consoles"

Switch total consoles in 4 years + (4 weeks) beat all other nintendo home consoles.

This isn't repetitive news at all because some weeks are going by! Amazing news.

 

[twilo99]

So how about gamepass subscriber numbers? Awfully quiet after satyas vague comments.

Terrible! it's all falling apart

 

[Orbital2060]

Sales?

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Those unironic posts in this thread congratulating MS and Phil, is pure cringe.

 

[adamsapple]

Those unironic posts in this thread congratulating MS and Phil, is pure cringe.

Don't be so McJelly

 

[Beechos]

Now only if it made record revenue/profit.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I don’t know if a call of duty game is good yet until a year later, living with it—cod4 I was blessed to have played, and danced all the way to 10th prestige. All my favorite maps, overgrown, crossfire, bog, pipeline are classics.

 

[Rockman33]

I highly doubt this. I remember booting up Black Ops 2 and seeing 600,000 players online. There is no way they even touched that number.

Source? Because the people who made the game are saying otherwise.