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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Sales Are Down 50% In Europe (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To put the headline in perspective:

Despite all the numbers being down, Black Ops 7 was still the best-selling game in terms of units and revenue in Europe for the week ending November 16 (its launch week). Battlefield 6, it’s main competition right now, came in fourth in both units sold and overall revenue.

Even with huge drop, COD is still raking in cash. While I personally think the current direction of COD is terrible, these sales numbers are unlikely to be some kind of fundamental course correction wakeup call to the publishers.

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 14 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

What people still see in this joke of a franchise I will never understand.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Its too big to fail at this point. Everyone plays it because everyone plays it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

Marketing too. There used to be regular commercials for it all the time.

[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Because there's not really any other series that has been able to compete and scratch the same itch. Battlefield is not competition, the scale of combat much larger even though it has been getting smaller. That said, if we're counting all the cod games that came out in the past few years, they still have a player base and honestly I think they play better than all the changes the recent games have made.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Many, many things in this world make people wonder 'How is this a thing?' I don't know of any where the answer isn't simply, 'Idiots exist.'