Plus, isn't another thing about that meme image is that, IIRC, that this was a public group? Meaning anyone can join? Meaning people could join it just to troll and specifically play the game on purpose just so they can create meme images like that and troll people and make the whole thing look like a bust when it's just people like them specifically trolling and doesn't reflect the larger group (and well, mission accomplished there, based around how that image still keeps popping up every time people talk about boycotts or review bombs and their effectivness or lack there of to this day)? And I can'T say if it has something to do with Modern Warfare 2 ditching dedicated servers or not. It can however be said that the franchise isn't as big on PC as it is on consoles. Though we don't know if they could keep all the players. That can probably be credited to it having a Battle Royal mode which is still a craze I guess. It also doesn't include the numbers of BlOps IIII which is exclusive and had the biggest launch of the franchise on PC. Of course that number doesn't include numbers of the versions of CoD 1-4 not on Steam. That is less than indie games like Rimworld, Factorio or Stardew Valley.

I then went to Steam Charts to check all the entries for the whole franchise: At the time of this writing the complete franchise has 11.512 players on Steam. If you check the 100 most played games on Steam and do a 'CTRL+F' for 'Call of Duty' you find no game of the franchise in the list: P.S.: Doing this thread got me interested in the state of Call of Duty, arguably one of gaming's biggest franchises, on PC. So please, don't use this picture anymore to prove anything regarding boycotts in the gaming industry. And it is still kind of baffling to me that people fall for this almost 10 years later. It shows a tiny part of a bigger picture and only the part it wants you to see. The reason I made this thread is because I saw this picture posted on Twitter and in a thread here to prove a point that boycotts proclaimed by people in gaming communities are null and void when in fact this picture proves nothing. It could very well be possible that people in the group not in this picture all played Modern Warfare 2 at the time. There are defnitly more people that played it despite being in the group. And what you might need to know that when checking Steam groups the people in-game are prioritized so the people not playing any game or are offline are on other pages (though you can see on this picture that it doesn't always work properly)ĭoes that mean that only these 19 people of 833 were playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 at the time? Probably not. And there are 16 more pages to go through. We might not even see the full first site of group members. As you can see, the entire group is bigger than the 36 people shown in the picture.

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