Black Ops 7 Season 1 Has Done Almost Nothing To Help Boost Its Lacklustre Player Numbers
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 hasn’t really set the world on fire ever since it released last month, launching to pretty tepid reviews and received poorly by a fanbase that appears to have had enough. It’s been widely reported that Black Ops 7 is struggling commercially compared to the rest of the series (and its main competition) and Activision has been doing its best to tempt people in with free skins.
With things seeming pretty bleak, it fell upon the launch of Season 1 to get things back on track. Live service games like Black Ops 7 pretty much always see a big boost in players at the start of every season, right? This is the game’s chance to bring people back, get the game back on track, and try to keep hold of the newcomers for as long as possible, right?
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 1 Fails To Boost Player Numbers
Apparently not. If you take a look at Black Ops 7’s player numbers on SteamDB both before and after the launch of Season 1, you’ll see that it’s only managed to bring in a few thousand players at most. On December 3, one day before the release of the season, Black Ops 7 managed to hit a peak player count of 57,331.
Today, one day after the launch of the season, Black Ops 7 has only managed to reach a peak player count of 62,229, which is an increase of roughly five thousand players. Sure, that’s a lot of people, but when compared to other games and even other Call of Duty titles, it’s an absolutely tiny increase for what was being billed as one of the biggest season launches the series had ever seen.
Black Ops 7 is tied with the DS spin-off Modern Warfare 3: Defiance as the worst-rated Call of Duty in the series’ history.
We’ll use Marvel Rivals as an example. Before the release of Season 5 on November 14, Marvel Rivals managed a peak player count of 93,170, but that number dramatically rose after Season 5 started, rising to a whopping 160,144 the day after it began. That’s a more typical player increase for a live service game, but Black Ops 7 hasn’t experienced anything anywhere near those levels.
Of course, Steam numbers aren’t everything, and Black Ops 7 is free to play on Xbox thanks to it being on Game Pass, but player numbers on different platforms are usually correlative. A drop on Steam most likely means there will be drops on PlayStation and Xbox too, and unfortunately for Activision, it’s painting a pretty bleak picture — people just aren’t interested in Black Ops 7.
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Let me get this straight, you select a game pass game, famous for being easier and cheaper to access on PC relative to the steam monopoly. You ignore playstation, the largest CoD community, and you compare active player counts on steam to other games not available anywhere else but steam, on pc. Everyone can see through your bogus math.
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