[quote name='spuffin']He pulled them out of his ass. Look at the steam stats for MW2:
http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
(click View Steam players per game)
COD:MW2 is one of the first games to beat out CS:S and CS consistently since release. As of right now, MW2 has 53k players in game and it peaked at 97k at some point in the day. So if this guy is trying to say it only sold 170k yet close to 100k were playing it today - that's a ridiculous percentage of players that bought the game that were online playing multiplayer today. Yes, that's right I'm not even including individuals that are playing single player.
To give you some further indication of the BS nature of his figure, L4D2 can only be played on Steam and thus all players would be accounted for (the same way as MW2) yet L4D2 doesn't differentiate between multiplayer and singleplayer, so it already gets the upper hand. That said, 15k are playing right now and it peaked at 20k earlier in the day. COD:MW2 is beating the crap out of L4D2 in terms of players.
So if he's saying COD:MW2 failed, then L4D2 failed way harder, but at the end of the day his comment is just some bullshit figure and PC gaming is doing just fine
Current top games based on # of players:
1. Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2
2. Counterstrke: Source
3. Counterstrike
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Left 4 Dead 2[/QUOTE]
Peak Players(today) Game
97,873 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer
91,058 Counter-Strike: Source
72,808 Counter-Strike
20,770 Team Fortress 2
20,040 Left 4 Dead 2
15,607 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (single player)
I always get a laugh though that Counterstrike Source, a 5-6 year old game still has 90k+ players...and its basically a remake of Counter Strike which has 72k players. If the counterstrike population weren't such a dichotomy, MW2 wouldn't even have a chance of beating Counterstrike an arguably 10 year old mod.