MW3 Beats Avatar to $1B

Activision Publishing announces an impressive sales milestone for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, saying the military shooter sequel has surpassed USD $1 billion in sales in a mere 16 days, eclipsing a record for fastest run to a billion set by James Cameron's Avatar. "Call of Duty has become that rare entertainment franchise that transcends its own genre. Core gamers love it, as our stellar reviews show. But every year, new people are drawn into Call of Duty," said Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing. "And while the franchise continues to set records, our fans still seem to want more, demonstrated by our record setting start on Call of Duty Elite. We are committed to helping everyone connect, compete and improve their game, Call of Duty style."
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Bludd wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:37:
Who are buying all these games? I don't know anyone who has bought this game.

The same people who buy Angry Birds. MW3 has a hardcore following but it's one of the few "hardcore games" that's managed to make a mainstream transition. If you are one of the millions of console owners who bought the system but only buy one or two games a year for it, you're probably buying this. Like Angry Birds, it doesn't matter that it's not very good or that there's a ton of better choices, it's a household name and that alone sells it.
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Dec 12, 2011, 14:05
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Of the people that I know, the majority that talk about MW3 are what I would class as "non-gamers". And just as many are actually girls, trying to be "alternative". My brother has it, though that's only because he's in a clan that actively plays it - he also picked it up cheap, as he wouldn't have paid full price for it.

Unfortunately we have to accept that the majority of people that buy games are casual gamers that know jack shit about quality and just buy Gears Of War / Call Of Duty / Halo, the equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster - i.e. shit.

What we can do is vocally criticise bad games, which sometimes spills into the mainstream or damages sales enough to make an impact. People moaned enough about MW2 to get Activision to change course with MW3 and dedicated servers. So while we can't get stupid people to stop buying bad games, we can help to make bad games slightly less shit.
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Dec 12, 2011, 13:56
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Krovven wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 13:50:
Beamer wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 13:34:
Again, we haven't had something built into a game like this since UT.

Really? What bubble do you live in? Oh right... the Beamer bubble where if you aren't on Facebook you are a terrorist.

How about Battlelog, which is free and functional. Not to mention a far better game than MW3.



No way is any DICE game better than MW3. Which isn't saying so much about MW3 as how bad DICE games are.

Although way to take something from other posts and put it here. Don't you whine when people do that to you with Steam? You are one of the guys with outlandish views on Valve, aren't you?
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Wildone wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:41:
Its not even a good shooter, its just the PR has snowballed the last couple of games till its the default place to go the Mcdonalds of FPS..
Couldn't agree more.

On a (very sarcastic) side note, clearly piracy is heavily impacting this industry. If it wasn't for all those damned pirates they would probably have eleventy-three billion in sales already!
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Beamer wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 13:34:
Again, we haven't had something built into a game like this since UT.

Really? What bubble do you live in? Oh right... the Beamer bubble where if you aren't on Facebook you are a terrorist.

How about Battlelog, which is free and functional. Not to mention a far better game than MW3.


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Dec 12, 2011, 13:41
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Bludd wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:37:
Who are buying all these games? I don't know anyone who has bought this game.

I've been kinda wondering the same thing, even most of my friends who were really into the CoD series didn't buy MW3. I guess maybe its been passed onto the newer generation again? I checked my friends lists XBL and Steam the other day, no one playing it or had in recent history. I guess it could just be the sample size but it seems weird because a few of them are diehards.
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Bludd wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:37:
Who are buying all these games? I don't know anyone who has bought this game.

I know a few people that bought it just to spite EA/Origin/BF3..... Yeah, I know....
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necrosis wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 13:31:
Wait. "Call of Duty Elite" which is still broken as fuck and not out for PC?

Oh wait. Your average PC gamer is smart enough to not buy into this bullshit.

I don't get how "free stats server" is bullshit.
The implementation is poor, but the idea is awesome. Again, we haven't had something built into a game like this since UT. UTs was just on your PC, and better done, but I'll happily take any kind of stats you throw at me.

The misconception seems to be that you have to pay for it. Aside from them saying a billion times that the PC version will be entirely free, the console one gives you stats for free. What it doesn't give you is some form of community events or something, I don't even know, truthfully. But I have no qualms being able to see my k:d ratio broken down per weapon. For the 10 minutes, maybe, that I've spent with it I've learned that bouncing betties are about 30% more effective for me than claymores. That's worth the time I spent.
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Dec 12, 2011, 13:31
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Dec 12, 2011, 13:31
 
Wait. "Call of Duty Elite" which is still broken as fuck and not out for PC?

Oh wait. Your average PC gamer is smart enough to not buy into this bullshit.
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Oh Shit..that is very impressive! To bad the game is crap & Americans in general LOVE crap...
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InBlack wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 11:02:
Oh and remember what happened to Bioware at EA? Yeah they havent exactly been killed off but yeah...please...

Was it EA/Bioware? No. EA bought Bioware.

Activision and Blizzard are a very, very different entity.
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Oh, goody...

I love how Call of Duty Elite is considered "record setting."
Isn't the first of something always setting a record?

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Not yet maybe....but now he has some nice figures he can show his board of directors, and believe me he will be taking the credit for the success of CoD, after cleaning house at Infinity Ward....

Oh and remember what happened to Bioware at EA? Yeah they havent exactly been killed off but yeah...please...
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billion fans of justin beiber buy MW3..
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InBlack wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:55:
descender wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:41:
I bet the concession money made off Avatar makes the MW3 money look like peanuts... since they are dealing with 5 times as many people...

Who really cares how many stupid people buy bad, overrated video games anyway?

Erm publishers for one? Now imagine that dickwad Bobby Kotick getting a bright idea to kill Blizzard when Diablo3 fails to hit the 1 Billion mark....or even worse he decides that Blizzard should simply churn out Diablo sequels every 6 months or so....

Kotick doesn't have the power to kill Blizzard.
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descender wrote on Dec 12, 2011, 10:41:
I bet the concession money made off Avatar makes the MW3 money look like peanuts... since they are dealing with 5 times as many people...

Who really cares how many stupid people buy bad, overrated video games anyway?

Erm publishers for one? Now imagine that dickwad Bobby Kotick getting a bright idea to kill Blizzard when Diablo3 fails to hit the 1 Billion mark....or even worse he decides that Blizzard should simply churn out Diablo sequels every 6 months or so....
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I bet the concession money made off Avatar makes the MW3 money look like peanuts... since they are dealing with 5 times as many people...

Who really cares how many stupid people buy bad, overrated video games anyway?
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Same here Bludd, now excuse me while I go and throw up in the corner...
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Its not even a good shooter, its just the PR has snowballed the last couple of games till its the default place to go the Mcdonalds of FPS..
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