According to Steam stats and a little bit of research from Ausgamers, that is.

Using graphed data from several months of steam activity, we analyse the downward trend of PC gamers playing Call of Duty: Black Ops versus the relevtive stability of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.


Only problem I've got with Ausgamers is they clearly missed the point: it's not Infinity Ward's map making skills that tipped the equation, but the bleeding bloody obvious that everyone on CG could have told them months before release:

TREYARCH ARE SHITTY CODERS.

If people's PCs were capable of running the damn game on launch without requiring a monster overclock or a huge upgrade, and the damn thing didn't continuously asphyxiate users of dual core systems until about thirteen patches down the road, more people would be playing Black Ops.

Shitty coding turns people off your game. Pure and simple.

I played tonight for the first time since the kingston comp.. i still want to cut my balls off, wouldn't you think it would be fixed by now if they were going to do it?

it was shit from day g0

it's still too resource hungry; shit might be a description better reserved for other shooters like breach.

its not resource hungry, its ******* extremely poorly optimised, hence why its raping the shit out of peoples computers. forcing people to upgrade so you can get even with consoles from 2005.

If anyone can remember the release of Crysis 1, and can remember how much better the game got when the devs optimised the game.

Maybe cause BOPS is a unoptimised peice of shit, we should have learn our lesson with world at war.

there was nothing wrong with world at war.. it was quite fine

take a leaf out of Archaic's book and just stop playing.

much more enjoyable

It is pretty discouraging.

I don't plan on buying any cod game after this one, the last two were shit and I don't see it getting any better.

its because when they made this game for the pc they forgot to take out the xbox

Mod tools took a year or so for cod4? fingers crossed if we ever do get mod tools they can speed it up. From what I read Treyarch is worried about people gaining access to the netcode or something like that and that's why there has been such a long delay on the mod tools being released...

As for popularity...the most annoying thing is, mw2 had potential, BO still has plenty of potential it all just comes down to whether or not the small minority(competitive gamers using a mod) get what we need to keep going. Watching "competitive black ops" on xbox makes me ******* sick, togging with red dot m16's....what the ****

do your home work.

Strongly disagree.

must be a joke