Community: Message List - Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:35:44 GMT

It's mostly because most people upgraded to PS360.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:37:57 GMT

My brother's wii broke playing solo Zombies. He never played multiplayer.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:25:06 GMT

xiReVoLTx wrote:

BOPS showed the true limit of the wii as a console. it broke so many caused so many problems, that BOPS is the physical limit that the wii can handle.

I don't believe this to be true at all. The main problem with breakages was the disk reader. My wii broke playing reflex, and it was just over a year old. Wii's, just like most other stuff, are mass produced, and only out of so many wii's will you get 2 the same. 1 wii out of say, 1000, could have a fault, and games with alot of content are going to break these faulty wii's. People just assume that it was the game that broke their wii. Since my wii was repaired, it has seen many more hours of reflex, the whole of black ops and so far several days of play with MW3 without a single glitch, and I haven't included all the hours of game play my son has put in too. Black ops breaking wii's is a myth.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:08:35 GMT

So the children we get are the ones that are too young for parents to let them pick .

Yeah, it's a pretty bad side-effect in this age of communication. Kid's just blindly pick things because their friends and mass media promote them.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:54:02 GMT

Having kids is unavoidable due to the fact its a video game but if asked whether to get a PS3, 360 or a Wii, chances are they are going to pick an Xbox or a PS3.

Kids these days like to follow mainstream stuffs y'know?

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:44:18 GMT

I've noticed that about the connection on the Xbox too. 3 bars and I'm already lag jumping around the place .

Actually, there are a lot of kids playing the Wii, they just don't post on these forums. And I've seen newcomers to these forums mercilessly trolled (really well too, very funny people here ), if that's the maturity you're talking about. I think it seems like we have less immature people in the Wii community because the playerbase is smaller than the PS360's, however with the same proportion of immature/mature players.

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donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:17:43 GMT

I have a PS3 myself but the online community is crap and the hit detection sucks if the host is from Antartica . 1 bar connection here = 3 bar connection there. Also note that only good games there are Assassins Creed, Killzone and Uncharted. BF3 is crap on consoles and only good for PCs.

The Wii community is more awesome with its matureness but are commonly misjudged as 9 year olds who dont have enough money

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:43:08 GMT

And with the wii u coming out PS3's are a sh!t load cheaper right now, and over here in the uk you can pick up an 80gb PS on ebay for around the same price of a new wii. Still not my choice as I play with a great bunch of people in my clan, but like I said, as far as cod titles go, MW3 is no where near as good as black ops, yet....

Revisback wrote:

Well there are 3 main reasons for this :

1) Peoples' wii broke and instead of fixing it, they went to buy a PS360.

2) Getting a PS360 for christmas

3) Wii's last year before WiiU

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:31:32 GMT

I thought MW3 wasn't an upset at all. as i said in my original respoce, it's just the COD copy paste template is changeing less on wii then other consoles. Thus making it so we're playing pretty much the same thing year after year.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:28:00 GMT

the sad fact is,MW3 improoved in every way possible over black ops. it's just that the call of duty copy paste template as it's called has just died out on wii first than other consoles. Most of the new exciting things that are on PS360, and PC arn't in the wii version. and the face that BOPS showed the true limit of the wii as a console. it broke so many caused so many problems, that BOPS is the physical limit that the wii can handle. Sadly, I beleive the WiiU will be to late, and all the wii gamers will just switch to PS360 or PC because they know nintendo can't catch up to sony and microsoft and are tired of playing games lacking features, graphics, and other services such as COD elite, and actual "gamertag or PSN ID". now even if the WiiU encorperates these features, they will only be playig catch up and wil be behind Sony and Microsoft. Sadly, for call of duty on the wii, WaW, Reflex, and BOPS were the highlight, it will only go downhill from there. sorry for the long responce but there was a lot to cover in a short period of time.

-xiReVoLTx

Youtube Commentator / Montage Maker for the Wii Community

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:10:55 GMT

Well there are 3 main reasons for this :

1) Peoples' wii broke and instead of fixing it, they went to buy a PS360.

2) Getting a PS360 for christmas

3) Wii's last year before WiiU

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:42:09 GMT

The game isnt selling as well as BO did, thats pretty much the reason why. I also think alot of people who got the game for christmas are probably playing the single player game first, and will become online regulars in the coming weeks. I believe BO had sold over 400k by the time Christmas came, and MW3 is only around 300K. I have been on with as many as 15k players, and I am not pulling host nearly as often now. I expect the online community for this game to hover between 12-18k most days. So many gamers have moved on from Wii this year. It really doesnt matter to me, its not like I am having trouble finding matches, so I could care less if there was 150k vs 15k online. Still needs some patch work though,, Akimbo FMG's are still nuts.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:09:46 GMT

I saw it go up to 17000ish and still rising. Give it like a month and it will be around 18000+.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:48:37 GMT

padiego wrote:

Before XMAS, black ops had around 10k+ people online average. After XMAS, i saw it grow up to 40k at times. I'm guessing most people decided not to waste their money on the worst disappointment of the century.

Tiz true. The game is broken and no where near as good as black ops. Go back to black ops for 1 night and you'll see the difference straight away.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:25:37 GMT

There are noobs, and lots of um, ive seen plenty in almost every lobby I go in, BUT the figures arent up that much. I cant be very accurate as im in the uk so its early morning in the states when ive been on. Ive stayed up very late twice recently, once before xmas, and last night. ALL my allies were online almost, both times, there US based in the main, so its good gaming time in their timezone obviously, and the figures increased by 3`000 post xmas.

Im guessing the bad press has seen it shot down in flames. Maybe people now want something new? I dont know the current sales figures but I believe it was 70k sold on release week, and there were only 8`000 online.

I doubt id still play after prestiging, even with new maps, coz IW appear to want plenty small in your face maps, so theyd be same/same. BO mixed it up with big maps/medium/small, daytime/nightime maps.

Its the same prob year after year in that they fix the probs of the previous cod, but in doing so create something else thats wrong. Maybe people are just bored?

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:17:18 GMT

Before XMAS, black ops had around 10k+ people online average. After XMAS, i saw it grow up to 40k at times. I'm guessing most people decided not to waste their money on the worst disappointment of the century.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:48:25 GMT

I've never understood the reset stats thing till one of my friends ran into a mod lobby and ended up being 10th. He then clicked that and went back to lvl 1. He lost everything, it was just like starting multiplayer again for the first time cause you have nothing, including titles and emblems. Your friends list stays intact though. I don't see the purpose of clicking it if you work your way up to 10th only to restart to do it over... kind of pointless and a waste of time.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:43:30 GMT

The highest I've seen so far is over 16k. With last night the total online hiting around 8-9k around midnight.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:37:29 GMT

I have to agree about the volume of players that are online at any one time. I did not see the big Christmas influx of players that I have seen in years past. Now this is only what I have experienced, and I can't definitively say that overall there are less players, but I am not seeing them.

I will also say that when I logged on Christmas night hoping to see many players who had only been playing for a couple of hours, all I ran into were people who obvioulsy had been playing since Midnight Nov 8th.

I have just not seen the elusive MW3 Christmas Noob.

Re: Well xmas has been and gone and figures still way down!

donotreply@activision.com — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:33:18 GMT

You could reset your stats with a token when you get to tenth prestige.