Black Ops 6 Player Numbers Drop to Late Modern Warfare 3 Numbers

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  • Call of Duty on Steam has dropped to pre-Black Ops 6 numbers in just two months, indicating a significant drop in players.

  • Black Ops 6's peak player numbers fell sharply compared to Modern Warfare 3 to levels not seen since October 2024.

  • Black Ops 6's peak player count dropped by 79% in just two months, indicating a rapid decline caused by various issues such as microtransactions.

The spectacular crash of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 continues. Last week, we reported that Activision's newest title, which it called “the most successful series in history,” had lost nearly half its players in two months, and the mass exodus shows no signs of slowing down. Speed ​​does not show.

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According to SteamDB, just two months later, Call of Duty on Steam dropped to pre-Black Ops 6 numbers.

It took Modern Warfare 3 years to get this low

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Yesterday, Call of Duty on Steam, which includes Black Ops 6, Warzone, and Modern Warfare 3, hit a 24-hour peak of 66,349 players. You have to go back to October 23, 2024 to find the last time it was this low. This was before Black Ops 6 came out. Considering that a percentage of those 66,000 players probably play Warzone or MW3, this is an indictment of Black Ops 6.

What's even more interesting is that it took almost a full year for Modern Warfare 3 to drop as much as Black Ops 6 is now. Modern Warfare 3 launches on November 10, 2023. It maintained an average peak player count of around 80,000 for most of its lifecycle, dropping to 67,536 on September 11th—still not as low as yesterday's Black Ops 6. . To reach this feat, you have to go back to October 16 of last year, when the Call of Duty Steam launcher hit 62,982 players.

It's also worth noting that Modern Warfare 3 had fewer players to lose than Black Ops 6. The previous game in the franchise peaked at around 191,000 players, while Black Ops 6 reached over 315,000. That means Modern Warfare's peak dropped 67% from November 2023 to October 2024, but Black Ops 6 dropped 79% in just two months.

Modern Warfare's peak dropped 67% from November 2023 to October 2024, but Black Ops 6 dropped 79% in just two months.

It's amazing to see how quickly sentiment has changed for this year's Call of Duty title.

It received glowing reviews from critics, sitting at 83 on Opencritic, but sentiment quickly changed. Skill-based matchmaking was, once again, one of the first issues to surface, but expensive microtransactions, boring events, and AI artwork all likely contributed to Black Ops 6's downfall.

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He was forced to rebel. It was hunted from within. This game is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and transformation in world politics, marked by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a superpower. This is Black Ops with an amazing narrative and unconditional rules of engagement.

The Black Ops 6 campaign offers dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of game environments with blockbuster sets and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger espionage.

In a best-in-class multiplayer experience, players will test their skills on 16 new maps, including 12 6×6 core maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.

Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, a fan-favorite mode where players destroy hordes of the undead across two brand new maps at launch. Once launched, players can look forward to more exciting maps and ground-breaking experiences in both multiplayer and zombies.

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