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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Declared Biggest Launch in Entertainment History
by Alice O'Connor, Nov 12, 2009 5:05am PSTCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 publisher Activision has declared this week's release of Infinity Ward's shooter "the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment."
Approximately 4.7 million copies of Modern Warfare 2 were bought within the first 24 hours of sale in North America and the United Kingdom alone according to internal estimates, which Activision works out as $310 million of sell-through sales.
Modern Warfare 2 was released for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on Tuesday, with many stores opening at midnight for the occasion including 10,000 in the USA.
So great was the launch, Infinity's Ward Robert Bowling explained, that Sony's PlayStation Network was "overwhelmed" by the glut of players on PlayStation 3 and many were left unable to play online--an issue which should now be rectified.
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Maybe you don't get it cus you think you're just a recipient of any good grace the publishers decide to bestow upon you. That's WRONG. This is clearly a co-op. Players support good titles with demand, and in turn game makers continue to produce, and hopefully challenge the standards and find new ways to thrill.
On the PC, communities live and die around dedicated servers. Natural Selection has been supported by the community in all its 7 years, the making of NS2 is supported by the community. You can't possibly rationalize giving your players LESS and expect higher sales volume. This is a sham.
That's why organization is empowering. If you don't agree with something, get in touch with like-minded people and boycott. Protest. It's preposterous to say that everything is fine, that you are willing to live with something cus you're just one person, that a certain publisher is too big to fight.
The level of emasculated people astounds me.
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