Black Ops II Amazon's most preordered game ever

This is like an endless curse.

I don't get how year after year cod breaks sales record!

you know what, at the begning t hought that was mw3

oh that's nice, can't wait for the pre-owned which are going to be resold

You people keep saying that tons of people keep bashing etc. yes people on these sites do, but do you have any idea of HOW BIG that number of people is, to you when people keep bashing COD on this site, it seems like alot, but compared to the general number of people that play that stupid game. The number of haters is very small. I went to my lil 14 year old cousins birthday, there was like 20 of his friends. All pretending to play COD, ya its that lame lol, they took anything they found, bottles and kept pretending they were playing cod, and saying head shot? lmao i was really entertained i must admit hahaha. When i told them how bad the game was and why, and the evil practices that company lays out, they seemed to look me like i was from another planet. 

My point is this, you may think everyone hates COD since all you see is alot of hate for it, but not everyone is on these sites, trolling away. The haters are but a small spec even if to you it seems like EVERYONE hates cod, trust me, for every 1 person that hates this game there are probably another 10 that enjoy it. You people really need to stop its not gona stop, no matter how much hatin you do. And no i do not like cod, never have and never will.

Like many other things, hype will always be there, wether its games, music, movies etc.  People wan't cash, and these companies will do anything to herd in the sheeps to this cess pool of a game.

Like i said, you see these boards flooded with hate, and think EVERYONE hates cod still it sells, well the sad truth is simple, you are in a minority, a big one, not all them losers that love the game hang out on these sites.  Simple as that.

I don't like anymore amazon, has going to fancy on Wii U lately. I would have dislike them happening to any console. But i'm pretty sure they will fully support PS4 and nextbox.

it's all fuel for the big hype machine. Quite depressing really.

 it's sad that the gaming industry lives solely on giving people mindless straightforward competitive multiplayer that even our grandmas can pick up and play.  Some industries tried to innovate, like the two batman games , TES ( TES was in production for almost 4 years if im not mistaken ) , demon souls and dark souls, Bioshock. heck , even dishonored did some innovation.

i'm sure that These games were overlooked by at least 65% of the PS3 / XBOX/ PC community , since they dont provide you with your straightforward easy to play, multiplayer from the very moment you pop your disk in for the first time.  Storytelling, Solo play, and even production quality and originality  is starting to fade from the gaming industry, since it wont have record breaking sells like A COD game has.

It still bothers me that , after more than half a decade later, the SAME freaking game  being released every year, still gets sold like this.  (dont get me wrong, I Loved the first Call of duty, at least it had a decent story).

I guess that it's safe to say that , COD is the new Farmville.    There's still hope in the PC/xbox market  , where more and more indie games are being made each day  (imagine it as the re-living of the early NES period, when many companies started making games with their own ideas in it). Indie games are also getting more sophisticated , no longer does an indie game have to be a 2D sprited or vectorized looking game.  There are plenty of 3D , beautiful to look at indie games, with a good story, and with the best game engines being easily acessed  ( Unreal engine Cry engine and such).

i predict that the future of indie games is going to be a bright one. 

As always, good for the ones who will keep the money.

This can only be bad news for the gaming industry. More companies trying to recreate a CoD feel to their games with games like Resident Evil being caught in the crossfire.

Innovation lives, but only just. I soon believe all games will be on - rails shooters with a true enphasis on marketing to children and hyping multiplayer.

i sense a disturbance in the force of free markets, like a million gamer voices screamed at once and then were silent...

something is wrong with the world when the same old crap keeps turning on a wheel of hype. even the 12 yo fanboys will be admitting the game sucks after two weeks. yet it makes profit

all i hear on these forums is how cheap the whole thing has become, but out there... in the real world... people are actually buying this.

I think I already played this game 5 years ago, it's called cod4:MW, the extra map packs are just keep rolling out every year with the same big price tag.

You wanna know what else is rehashed? Anti-COD rants!

Isn't Call of Duty the same as that over used marketing in the form of Far Cry 3? When the guy tries to apply impressive err not so much logic to tell us the definition of insanity is *drum roll* doing the same thing over and over.

maybe the myans were predicting the end of the gaming world

This is news?

I just can't wrap my head around dropping $60-$90 on a video game that's the exact same as the one made before it. Even for a good game, $80 is a ridiculous price.

This is almost the most unshocking thing I have heard. I could have told you this without even reading any numbers or facts.

So is this the most game ever?

The seed of corruption grows like moths to the flame

Why is this happening !!? ... God help us from Activi$ion arrogance :[ !

Call of Dooty II: Green Opshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NURfvG0lfpA

Yet they still don't bring back .99cent release day shipping I would rather have that than 10.00 amazon video promo bs.

Call of Duty -- An amazing way to keep your virginity.

Girl: Hey, you wanna come over?

Guy: Nah im playing call of duty.

Possible permanent side-effects: 

Geekiness

OCD

GRS (Girl Repelent Syndrome)

This statistic only shows you just how many children can use the internet these days.

Nice to see you can still bank on peoples comfort for the old and familiar.

It makes me want to cry, finding out after every annual release, how many stupid cod fanboys there are in this world, and you cant talk to them to make them understand because they're so racist :'( 

Replace "Black Ops 2" with "Modern Warfare 3" and "Modern Warfare 3" with "Black Ops" and you have this same article from last year. Heck, "Modern Warfare 4" over "Black Ops 2" and "Black Ops 2" over "Modern Warfare 3" and you'll have next year's article.

Why would you preorder it online?  You might not get it for a week!