Call of Duty: Black Ops Hits $1,000,000,000

600 million hours in just over 6 weeks? That's impressive.

That's actually insane. I can see this driving developers to opt for multi-platform games now. COD would not have sold as much if it was tied down to one platform.

They get 1 billion and they still use customers as beta testers... that's a very profitable business

WOW!
Maybe i should buy that game. It must be pretty good if it's selling that well. I think I will still check to see what the critics think first.

Honestly I do not understand this..... this game sucks.... I think treyarch just took infinity wards ideas and made them.... worse. The controls are not very responsive and the game just looks like crap. I think the only reason this game did so well is because of the hype of MW2. I would not spend $60 on this piece of crap game....

If the game had not been hyped up so much it would have been much better. I own it and rather play Halo Reach. Not really a fan of that one either. All the hype really kills the game off when you find out its modern warfare 2 from a different perspective. Not worth the money of time IMO. They really need to reinvent the wheel here as most FPS based on real world events are falling short.

Over rated, small tiny maps to accommodate the kiddie consoles. I will stick with BF2 with multiplayer maps big enough to fly and airplane in and you can if you want.

Well, I have both Bloack ops and BC2 plus vietnam exp. I love both games. If I want to play a fast pace game. I will play black ops which I love. And if I want a slow pace with vehicles and such. Well I play BC 2. Thats they way I look at them. One fast and the other a slow pace

Well, I have both Bloack ops and BC2 plus vietnam exp. I love both games. If I want to play a fast pace game. I will play black ops which I love. And if I want a slow pace with vehicles and such. Well I play BC 2. Thats they way I look at them. One fast and the other a slow pace

The only problem with it's great success is that they fubar'd launching the game. It took at least a month for them to patch in BASIC server browser features. The PC version saw F'ups like the mp.config file not utilizing multicores and other settings causing graphical leaks. What kills me is that these retards at treyarch were so proud of themselves saying they were not up against a deadline so they had time to tweak and fine tune before release... Well that sir is Bull$hit.

And of course finally, why even wait for people to get bored with the game before you try to release DLC for $15 a pop, and since most servers will patch to the DLC most people will be either forced to pony up, or thumb through the browser looking for non dlc servers.. bleh screw video games.. im gonna go play outside ; )

Only reason people like these games is because the multiplayer works.. there are very few games where the multiplayer is actually workable. If half these kids knew how to work a keyboard and mouse they would buy counterstrike 1.6 atleast... I've nearly given up on FPS games in these past few years. only Team fortress 2 has come close to satisfying me completely.

black light tango down FTW

if only people played it more on the pc it would be the killer game to have.

Black ops is OK because I skipped modern warfare 2. Its fast paced and easy. Battlefield bad company 2 way better game IMO. I'm in the need for battle field 3 with all the goodies from BC 2 and battlefield 2 ill be set to skip the next 2 COD

meh I dont buy into the hype...Ill ait and see if people are still talking about it in a few months..if so..then maybe Ill see if the PC version is better then mw2
If not then I dont want to support them. I dont want to hold a grudge just because of mw2 ...so Ill just wait and see if its all just a bunch of hype...because articles like this just makes people jump t buy it...maybe it sold so well just because of pure hype..and isnt as good as they say it is.Some critics I think are persuaded into liking the game more...How they persuade and critic..hmmmm idk.

Didn't buy it.

Bought it, way better than mw2 purely because the lack of glitchers hackers, and perkup servers.

Mw1 is still better though.

Too bad the game sucked horribly.

Hmm, wonder how the sales break down between console and PC.
I am afraid this is why no one makes really good PC exclusive games anymore except blizzard once in a blue moon. And they subsidize them with the WOW cash cow.
Why make a PC game with a deep storyline and long campaign, such as an RPG when you can make a derivative console shooter, port it to the PC, make a bucket load of cash from consoles, and sell it to the PC too. Kind of sad really. Doesnt bode well for PC gaming.

i got bored at Hong Kong and gave up.

i don't do the online thing on games i've pirated.

yes i pirated this.

glad i did too.

weren't worth paying for.

*del

That's $1,000,000,000 wasted.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

15% Luck
15% Skill
70% Lag

And since it used the exact same engine as the previous two games, it probably cost them $10 million to make and made more than Titanic and almost as much as Avatar. The budget on Avatar was 237 million.

Finished it, it's rubbish. Preferred Medal of Honor, but that's rubbish too. I still play ARMA 2 all the time.

Totall agree killerclick. It was installed for all of about an hour on my PC and then uninstalled... waste of time.

Too bad it's 90% 10 year old's who play. What kid with a Box/PS3 doesn't have, "Duty" ? It's more mainstream garbage than MTV is.

So, who has seen this??

600 million hours?

LOL, and thats just the MP.

Wait? is there a SP?

oh well whatever.

So lets see thats roughly 16 million copies sold on all consoles, and PC.
Roughly 10 million copies sold in the first 5 days.
Not really all that impressive when you look at it like that.

Seems to me after the initial first week of people bought the game word of mouth got out that its not really any different than the past 3 games and it kind of tapered....

Oh well Ill wait and see what the real call of duty people will do with there NEW IP since they are no longer with Infinity Ward.

then they cant complain about piracy....

Could've hit $2 billion if there was freaky alien sex in the game

I don't care much for MW2, I like black ops a lot better. But to each his own.