posaunit.blogg.se - Call of duty cold war sales figures

COD was originally available on Steam until the release of Black Ops 4, and the subsequent three releases, Modern Warfare, Black Ops: Cold War, and Vanguard, all followed suit.Since only a portion of the aforementioned 100 million users would have been on PC, the platform's growth remained "flat." The number of monthly active players for Blizzard's releases such as Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo reached 35 million at the end of 2018 and is expected to fall to 22 million by the end of 2021.

Although the free-to-play release of Warzone, Modern Warfare's battle royale component, exploded in popularity during the global pandemic, prompting reports of a "record year" with 100 million monthly active users, it appears that it simply masks declining numbers from Blizzard's titles on the same platform.

's monthly active users ('MAUs') remained relatively flat during the period when it had exclusive access to digital sales of Call of Duty on PC, from 2018 through 2022." In 2018, Activision decided to take the game off of Steam and make it exclusively available on -largely to attract users to, and grow, Activision's own platform. "Before 2018, Activision sold digital versions of PC Call of Duty titles on Valve's successful Steam platform. "Activision's attempt to take PC digital sales of Call of Duty exclusive to its platform was a resounding failure," the document reads.

Following Microsoft's court victory over the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) earlier this week, the company's legal team claims that Activision's decision to force PC players to purchase all COD titles from 2018 to 2021 on its platform was a "resounding failure" as the platform's userbase did not grow as a result of the decision.

Activision Blizzard's decision to pull the Call of Duty (COD) franchise from Steam and make it a exclusive for a few years failed to grow both the platform and the series' PC playerbase, according to Microsoft.