With a new Call of Duty game almost upon us, there has been a bit of chatter from prominent games industry analysts that the best days for Activision's blockbuster franchise are behind it. So what better time to dig back into the Steam peak players statistics that we’ve been keeping track of for a couple of years and see if the figures support the notion?
Keep in mind that, Call of Duty's bread and butter is the home console platforms, and Steam only manages the much smaller PC versions of the last few offerings, but we think it's worth a look nonetheless.
Have we passed peak Call of Duty?
Read on for our analysis, take a look at some pretty graphs, and share your own thoughts.
Posted 05:14pm 05/11/12
Posted 05:33pm 05/11/12
That makes me smile.
Nice graphs.
Posted 06:22pm 05/11/12
*btw*
make your own numbers that matter to us..
You've been around long enough now..
last edited by koopz at 18:22:32 05/Nov/12
Posted 06:19pm 05/11/12
Posted 06:20pm 05/11/12
I tried to like MW3 MP but I couldn't get into it.
I am however looking forward to Blops 2. Especially after MOH:W was disappointing.
Posted 07:17pm 05/11/12
no offence to you media commentators.. you're doing some good work, and you're pushing the envelope
that said - today's 'community' is reducing down to a fraction on what is once was.
I do wonder - is this because my efforts ( and people like me ) helped you too much or not enough?
Posted 07:19pm 05/11/12
Posted 11:10pm 05/11/12
Posted 12:16am 06/11/12
Posted 01:05am 06/11/12
But if you quatify it as quality, then i think you'd still be wrong. Just that not as many kids were quoting 4chan instead of coming up with their own unique anger releasing phrases.
God knows how many times i called Flagger a f*****g railwhore f*****.
Posted 01:29am 06/11/12
That being said, most played game in the world is a stretch, considering that Farmville was pushing something like 120 million active monthly users at some point.
Posted 01:55pm 06/11/12
Also, Steam users aren't necessarily representative of all PC gamers.
All said I think your hypothesis is correct that the series peaked in 2011.
Google search popularity (world-wide)
Google search popularity (Australia)
last edited by Nitro at 13:55:06 06/Nov/12