Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Nov 10, 2010 5:00pm PST

Last night, I was attempting to play some Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer on the Xbox 360 or PC. On the 360, Live was having some issues with the massive player load and actually getting games to load was becoming an issue.

On the PC side, I'm having a good amount of performance problems, though I'm not freezing/hitching as badly as some people. Not having a locked framerate, however, takes some getting used to after playing CoD games on the 360 since CoD4. Aiming with a mouse is nice, though.

Going by the numbers displayed in-game, last night I saw around 3.6 million people "in playlists" on the Xbox 360 version, while the PC reported 35,000. Some Twitter followers told me they saw around 500,000 on the PS3 at the same time. While these numbers probably don't represent an accurate measure of concurrency, those are decently staggering difference, though in line with what I've come to expect from Call of Duty.

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Bless you, Treyarch
- http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/call-of-duty-treyarch-project/1133423p1.html

tl;dr:
"We said we would support the game. We are going to support it... We didn't spend two years of our lives to toss it all in the trash in one day."

Nov 10, 2010 5:16pm PST

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Bless you, Treyarch - http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/call-of-duty-treyarch-project/1133423p1.html tl;dr: " : roushimsx
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      So you dont play on PS3 either I take it? : Strid3rtheGreat
      
      So true. =( : DinK
      
      God so true. Especially mine since it has an issue that makes it freeze on startup. : ThomW
      
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      Well I didn't grow up with a PC, so maybe I'm spoiled by games "just working" and not having to fuck with juggling driver versions to fix graphical errors or tweaking settings or worrying if a game will run at my LCD's native res on my current hardware or if I need to buy more RAM or if I should install to my SSD to make the load times more tolerable or if a game isn't going to work because I have Daemon Tools installed (so obviously I'm a fucking pirate) or if a game is going to play nice with my OS install or if it's going to install some rootkit copy protection shit under the hood because it thinks I'm a fucking pirate (since, you know, I bought the game so obviously I pirate all the time) or maybe I don't want to deal with having a game that I can never get rid of if I don't like it because it's tied to my steam account even though I bought it in a box at a store or maybe I don't want to deal with having to spend time tweaking inis and cfgs to get a game to support my esoteric resolution and FOV of choice and maybe, just maybe I just want to throw a game in, sit on my couch, and play while my dog licks peanut butter off of my man tits.
      
      maybe.
      
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      Well I didn't grow up with a PC, so maybe I'm spoiled by games "just working" and not having to fuck with... : roushimsx
      
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      oh wow, good job unearthing an obscure western rpg that I have a negative amount of interest in and tryin... : roushimsx
      
      But it looks like shit, whereas it runs smoothly on mine (60+ fps maxed) and looks amazing. Enjoy your su... : Pandilex
      
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