https://www.eurogamer.net/activision-blizzard-player-numbers-tumble-after-brief-end-of-year-spike

> The number of people playing Activision Blizzard games each month has dropped back down to levels previously seen last summer, before a brief boost bestowed by big releases such as Overwatch 2 and Call of Duty in the back half of last year. 

>Monthly active users for Activision games - primarily its Call of Duty series - fell to 98 million as of the 31st March, down from 111 million at the end of December 2022.

>It's a figure roughly equal to that seen at the end of September last year, before the arrival of Modern Warfare 2 and the big 2.0 relaunch of live service Warzone in November. 

>On the Blizzard side of things, the drop is similar. 27 million people were playing Blizzard games each month as of 31st March this year, down considerably from the 45 million playing at the end of December. Blizzard last recorded a total of 27 million monthly players back in June last year. 

Ouch. Why are people abandoning Call of Duty and Blizzard games, /v/?

Activision wants to shove up the skill based matchmaking in cod players throats

>>635531181 (OP)

gay ass grind battle pass second job bullshit can fuck off

cont. seriously, they put that shit in to try to get people to buy battle passes or play the game more but you know what i would have played the game more and maybe spent money on it if i was having fucking fun and not worrying about having to unlock shit



i fucking quit when i felt it became a stupid time sink i hope they fucking crash and die

>>635531181 (OP)

Because Warzone 2.0 was a blatant step back from the original. Worse map, worse operators, worse gunplay, worse movement, worse everything. Then they forced everyone to Warzone 2 by sabotaging the fuck out of Warzone 1. >>635531532 this guy is right too. If I wanted to grind shit I'd play a fucking mmo. Don't even get me started on SBMM.

Nobody knows the player numbers other than Blizzard/Activision. So unless it's an earnings report I don't see why people buy into these sort of click bait write ups based off a vague guess of player data..

I play wz during weekends with my mates. I dont think its grindy. What aspect of the game is grind?

I dont care about any of the skins or camos.

I bought season 1 bp and since had enough coins unlocked to get s2 and s3 battle passes for free.

They have double xp weekends frequently

>>635531181 (OP)



Microshit wants to buy their company, thus making their products exclusionary. Blizzard were already fucking failing like a tower inferno to begin with and Kotick's greed has gutted CoD to the core.



I'm not shocked people are waking up and the old CoD gen are moving on with their lives.

Sorry. I'm just waiting for the acquisition so I can play their games off my Game Pass.

>>635531181 (OP)

>fell to 98 million

same energy

>Losing 11% of your playerbase in 3 months is good!

sweats, chinese people and PC cheaters killed the game

I refuse to play games that rely on FOMO.

I stopped enjoying CoD after BLOPs 3. I think I'm only playing CoD now because it seems like everybody else has to.

FOMO is a bitch.

>not 1 word of BlackRock

Nice try Larry, you got found out
