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“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2! You will be set up a bomb! You have no chance of survive, make your time!”
Wha… what on earth? Is it possible? Can the ancient prophecy really be true? Are Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s ‘End Days’ upon us?
With the release of Bungie’s Halo: Reach next week, on September 14th, you’d better believe that over the next few weeks Modern Warfare 2 is going to face some stiff competition on Xbox LIVE’s activity rankings, making for an incredible battle for supremacy.
It’s time to kick the habit. I’ve been patient with you. I’ve been kind and I’ve offered professional help. But now it has to stop. This addiction to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out of control.
Don’t tell me that ‘millions of people play it on Xbox LIVE every week’ and that you’re ‘no different.’ If ‘millions of people’ bought those $15 map packs, would you do the same?
Oh…
You’re in too deep. You’re tearing our dorm room apart! We want to play Halo 3 and Call of Duty: World at War!
Elsewhere, on Xbox LIVE:
The tragic story of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is relatively unknown, but is heartbreaking nonetheless.
Known as ‘Modern Warfare 2’ to its friends, the game grew up happy and extremely popular in its younger days, but as it got older, and people began to turn on it due to inevitable backlash, its heart grew cold and black and it started to lash out at its old friends.
Even though its popularity never waned, Modern Warfare 2’s lust for attention grew and grew, and it was never satisfied with the friends that it had – it started to steal friends from other games, like Halo 3 and its brother, Call of Duty: World at War, by handing out expensive gifts, and coveted its newfound companions like precious jewels, jealously guarding them against the temptation of others.
And so we find ourselves in the current situation – Modern Warfare 2 is still the most popular game on Xbox LIVE, surrounded by a sea of ‘friends’ who would sooner turn on it when the next best thing comes along than stay and keep it company.
Elsewhere on Xbox LIVE…
OK, so here’s my latest theory.
Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been the most played game on Xbox LIVE more or less since it launched at the end of 2009, beating back games like Halo 3 and the other Call of Duty games with ease. How is this possible? Bots.
Activision has created millions of Xbox LIVE accounts for millions of computer-controlled in-game bots which are constantly playing Modern Warfare 2, and therefore contributing to the game’s constant, consistent and dominating presence on Xbox LIVE, week after week, month after month.
What’s the alternative? Millions and millions of real people have actually bought Modern Warfare 2, and play the game night after night online? Ha ha, please! Give me a break. My ‘bot’ theory is logical. The alternative is pure fantasy.
Anyways… Blacklight: Tango Down is this past week’s top-selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game, followed by Monkey Island 2: Special Edition – LeChuck’s Revenge and After Burner Climax, while the list of best-selling Xbox Indie Games is topped by (do I really have to say this? Really?! OK, fine) Try Not to Fart, followed by I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 and Avatar Ninja!
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, top selling XBLA games and Xbox Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased (now including Games For Windows games):
Have you heard of this hot new ‘first-person shooter’ called ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’? It’s totally tearing up the sales charts, and after only a short while on the market, has managed to make its debut at the top of the Xbox LIVE Activity Ranking!
Considering the competition, like Halo 3 and Red Dead Redemption, this is quite a feat!
Maybe you should check out this underdog title, ‘Modern Warfare 2,’ when you get the chance and spread the word a bit. I predict it will remain at the top of the charts for, oh, I don’t know, at least seven months straight.
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Top selling Xbox LIVE Arcade games this past week include RISK: Factions, newcomer Puzzle Quest 2 and the price-promoted The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, while the list of best selling Xbox Indie games is once again dominated by I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1, followed by The Impossible Game and Avatar Paintball.
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, top selling XBLA games and Xbox Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased (now including Games For Windows games):
OK Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, we get it. You’re good. You’re the king of Xbox LIVE. Week after week, you’ve proven yourself to be the No. 1 most played game on the service. How about giving someone else a chance now, huh?
Halo 3 and Red Dead Redemption are just as worthy of the title. What about giving Battlefield: Bad Company 2 a shot? Why… why are you laughing? Why do have to be that way, Modern Warfare 2?
Well, moving on from ‘The Modern Warfare 2 Activity Ranking,’ the list of best selling games on Xbox LIVE Arcade is topped by debut title RISK Factions, as well as a whole bunch of Sonic games thanks to a special price promotion last week.
Best selling Xbox Indie Games, meanwhile, come in the form of Avatar Paintball, The Impossible Game and Baby Maker Extreme. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is only fourth on the list. Scandalous.
Have a look through the full global list of top played Xbox LIVE games, top selling XBLA games and Xbox Indie Games below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased (now including Games For Windows games):
Oh that rascally Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2! Always beating up on all of the other Xbox 360 games! It’s just never content with an Xbox LIVE activity ranking of anything less than No. 1! What are we going to do with it?!
Well I’ll tell you what we’re going to do.
We’re going to airdrop copies of Halo 3 and Red Dead Redemption into every major city, town and village in the world and make sure that these games (which have the best chance of upsetting ‘the king’) finally overtake Modern Warfare 2 on the chart.
Failing that… I don’t know anymore…
Moving right along, let’s have a look at the best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game for last week and… oh look, another Xbox LIVE bully!
So, how about that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, huh? Still the most played game on Xbox LIVE? Yep. Still beating back other super popular games, like Red Dead Redemption, Halo 3, Call of Duty: World at War and Call of Duty 4? Yep.
On to the rest of the chart then!
Snoopy Flying Ace was the best selling Xbox LIVE Arcade game during its first week on sale, followed by Prince of Persia Classic (which was a Deal of the Week last week) and DOOM II. Avatar Paintball is the best selling Xbox Indie Games this past week, with The Impossible Game and Avatar Racedrome trailing behind.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is the most played game on Games For Windows LIVE this week, followed by activity for Grand Theft Auto IV and Colin McRae: Dirt 2.
The full global list of top played Xbox Live games, top selling XBLA games and Xbox Indie Games follows below, all based on unique users and full versions purchased (now including Games For Windows games):
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