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[Calverz]

Thank you for a historic Launch. Just two weeks in, MWIII has already set records with the highest engagement in the new modern warfare trilogy! Thank you for inspiring us and for spending so much time in this game. Your feedback and passion continually make us better. And, thank you for playing with us - It's been a blast, and there's much more fun in store!

Congratulations to our talented colleagues at Treyarch for setting a new MW record with MW Zombies - And another shoutout to players for making all of this possible.

More hours per player overall than MW2019 and MWII. MWZ is the most engaging third mode in MW history. Campaign players putting in more time per player in MWIII than the previous two installments.

 

[adamsapple]

CoD slowly dying since World at War. Any year now.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Nothing about sales or actual number of players just saying those who did buy it has played it more than past CODs?

I bought it so not preaching doom and gloom here but I know several who did not because of SBMM

 

[analog_future]

can't kill it

 

[graywolf323]

Nothing about sales or actual number of players just saying those who did buy it has played it more than past CODs?

I bought it so not preaching doom and gloom here but I know several who did not because of SBMM

yeah these record engagement figures seem incredibly cherry picked

it’s not even the total hours? so we can assume that while the diehards might be playing it more, overall it’s being played less?

 

[Elios83]

Engagement talk = sales actually down compared to last year.

 

[DeepEnigma]

CoD slowly dying since World at War. Any year now.

"OMG, I'm a CoD fan now."

 

[Saber]

And since when CoD cares about engagement? They were aways strong on sales.

Oh Microsoft...right...

 

[NickFire]

COD celebrating engagement sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Please don't do COD dirty MS.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Consumers are idiots.

 

[Roni]

Are all the people forced to download the update counted in this engagement?

 

[StueyDuck]

Oh yes the magic player engagement number

 

[adamsapple]

"OMG, I'm a CoD fan now."

* Campaign mode fan.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

COD celebrating engagement sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Please don't do COD dirty MS.

It's the Xbox metric. I bet it stay like this going forward.

 

[DeepEnigma]

* Campaign mode fan.

Such an amazing campaign in this DLC.

 

[MadchesterManc]

Are all the people forced to download the update counted in this engagement?

Wouldn't surprise me if they were also counting the time you wait for the download & install as engagement.

 

[Little Chicken]

Congratulations Microsoft!

 

[adamsapple]

Such an amazing campaign in this DLC.

Real talk? I liked it more than MW2. MW2's inclusion of survival-missions in the campaign was a real downer for me.

It's a short campaign, that's the only real negative about it.

 

[Tomi]

Gaming has gone to shit!

 

[nani17]

 

[mitch1971]

Congratulations Microsoft!

...for buying the company just before the game came out so they can take credit.

 

[MirageMew2]

> Renames MW2 client MW3
“MW3 has all time high engagement!”

 

[Pelta88]

"Engagement" is a meaningless stat. Often employed by companies in an effort to hide sales, revenue, and profit.

 

[Mephisto40]

I'm not surprised TBH, the multiplayer is actually decent

 

[Calverz]

This tells me that the game has probably delivered on the changes the die hards wanted but sales numbers is a big unknown. Its probably worth bearing in mind that as its now owned by Microsoft, we probably wont get sales figures again.

 

[StueyDuck]

Engagement talk = sales actually down compared to last year.

It's less about sales being down but not meeting projections so they use BS terminology to look like they didn't fuck up to their shareholders

 

[MMaRsu]

I see actual Modern Warfare players saying this is the best MP in years so

 

[Snowdonhoffen]

Some people were saying this engagement record factors in MW2, MW3 and Warzone combined because, well, they use the same app for all 3 of them.

 

[Mr Moose]

More engagement crap? What about sales?

 

[Represent.]

COD celebrating engagement sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Please don't do COD dirty MS.

The damage is already done. This franchise will be a shadow of itself starting next gen. Book it

 

[diffusionx]

Most bullets fired between 12:00pm and 12:15pm on the fourth day after launch, what a humbling success

seriously, do they even provide an objective definition of engagement? what nonsense

 

[Arsic]

Nothing about sales or actual number of players just saying those who did buy it has played it more than past CODs?

I bought it so not preaching doom and gloom here but I know several who did not because of SBMM

SBMM is a necessary tool. Let’s be real none of your buddies are like 2.5+ KD average. Otherwise they would get stomped game in game out.

The only reason this became a complaint is because trash streamers like Courage kept getting shit on when he capped out on his skill rating so now he can’t make clips of himself dunking on people because he is in fact average and fat.

You take away sbmm and all it does is trash tier people like him get into lobbies to ego boost.

 

[squarealex]

Xbox already taking communication staff?

 

[Krieger]

Microsoft talking so much about engagement, you'd think they want to fucking marry someone.

 

[Ghostage]

Not surprised, it has the best MP since the original Modern Warfare 2.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Some people were saying this engagement record factors in MW2, MW3 and Warzone combined because, well, they use the same app for all 3 of them.

That doesn't make any sense, the game reconnects you to the appropriate server when selecting another game, playing the MWII campaign obviously doesn't show up as playing the MWIII campaign; anyone who says this dumb shit is just a salty goose.

 

[Kupfer]

It's always a matter of perspective. Why do they phrase it the way they do?
Probably because the total number of hours isn't overwhelmingly high. That's why they break it down to hours per player. And since this disaster is preferably played by hardcore CoD fans, this number naturally appears higher, allowing them to package it as advertising and promote it extensively.
I'm sure they would have preferred to advertise with sentences like 'the most overall playing hours within a week in the entire CoD franchise,' but that simply didn't happen.

 

[Ben87fr]

Like flies on shit

 

[Jigsaah]

Good for them I guess. I refuse to reward this kind of practice.

 

[SJRB]

Engagement metrics instead of sales numbers, huh...

 

[SlimySnake]

CoD slowly dying since World at War. Any year now.

They typically release sales figures. Not releasing them is proof it is not selling as well as before.

 

[akaFullmetal]

I guess that is good??? Not sure how we are to know if something is good or just a flash in the pan moment after launch. We'll see over time how this entry sells.

 

[FalconPunch]

Whenever a company starts bragging about engagement, what I hear is: "We didn't sell that many copies of the game and need something to talk about". Call of duty use to tell us about how they made over a billion in 24 hours.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Imagine using campaign players are playing this turd more than the others. That's sad

 

[M.W.]

SP was good, MP not so much.

 

[brian0057]

Gamers definitely have the industry they deserve.

 

[Labadal]

People saying engagement isn't imoortant don't know jack squat.

It's a big step in your life.

 

[LordCBH]

All this talk of engagement. It really is MS owned now lol.

 

[Northeastmonk]

queue the influencers making it sound better than it actually is.

 

[Dr. Acid Avatar]

Engagement? Look everyone, it's a sales euphemism for bullshit.