Three Years Later, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Still Seeing 12 Million Players Per Month

I miss Black Ops 2! I still play it, but it was really the first COD i truly got into. I played the previous but mostly for campaign and the occasional multiplayer match.

So many good memories and meeting some cool friendS

This just surprises me. For me, BOII was the worst of the series.

Then you look at CS:GO having 500k players on daily.... Trying to compare other games to COD is silly. I don't think they run the numbers correctly being on PC Steam shows 2-4k players daily while Consoles it's 20k or so, so 12 million? yeah no.

for me **** COD I got Black ops 2 it was one of the best black ops 3 sucks

@adam4897332 I see you're a troll.

I still play BO2 but prefer COD MW3 - I found the last few B4 and AW to be just steaming piles. They need to slow the game down, it is too much like Unreal, Halo, and spec ops, and counter strike. ME and my friends that get together every week since the first halo LAN parties, greatly prefer the more strategic and realistic Modern Warfare games. We like 2 and 3 the best. Used to be the less you died was the most important thing, now they reward 16k and 15d, just as much as someone 15k and 1d.

It has become all twitch based with very little need for team work, strategy, and creativity. Spawn, kill, die, spawn, kill, die. That is what made the Modern Warfare such a breath of fresh air from the jumping jack Halo, wall sliding Gears, and unreal/counter strike. Covering each other, setting down traps, holding areas, covering alleyways. When a claymore mine is the weakest thing you can choose, and jetpacks are more popular then you know things have went to hell. The game rewards rage quitters and across the map random grenade tosses.

I think this is what is making them stale and selling less each year. I would love to see activision, treyarch, etc get another Modern Warfare out there.

Oh but everyone here will try and convince you that COD is crap

Also its the most requested 360 game people want in the backwards compatible program on Xbox One. Activision won't let that happen though. That would hurt the sales of the crap Black Ops 3 that releases today! I'll be playing Warzone on Halo 5 instead.

Lot of kids in the world

Whole lotta dudebros out there. (But in all seriousness, BO2 is the second best CoD under 4, which is unplayable thanks to modders and the like nowadays.)

bops always play and feel different.

I got bored of the jump suits quickly in the last cod, that didnt make it a bad game, i just prefer bops.

Where are the majority of players? Is it in multiplayer or co-op zombies?

BLOPS 2 was a great game, Can't wait for the new one. Also, I love BF4, making a police version was ill advised.

because BO2 has been better than the last two CoD's...

I would LOVE for the call of duty franchise to get a complete remaster and overhall for current gen in one big collectors edition. That would be an epic playthrough. The earlier titles were great especially 2 & 3.

What's that? TF2? Counter-Strike? Changeable FOV? NEVER FUCKING HEARD OF IT, WE'RE ACTIVISION, BITCH.

I work at a game store and i see people buy this game almost every day so this isn't surprising. People REALLY like that zombies mode for whatever reason. Lots of kids like the game too.

It's probably because it was the last decent CoD on 360/PS3. I know many of my friends went back to playing it less than a month after Ghosts came out and I doubt they bought AW.

While I support healthy competition, it's kinda nice to see Activision still whooping EA in the shooter department after seeing how they almost completely destroyed the Battlefield franchise because they wanted to "take CoD's spot"

Part of the reason people are still playing BO2 is because it doesn't involve special abilities. I have played COD:MW through COD:AW online. But, I haven't played AW nearly as much as any of those previous titles (hours compared to days) because of the abilities. It is a good game and I have fun with it, but I just don't really care for the abilities.

Everybody says how they want a COD set in the past again. Question is will they like a slow paced game again. After playing these frenetic games.

It's NOT up to Microsoft whether or not it's added to backwards compatibility -- it's up to Activision.

...and there's ZERO incentive for them to do so. They live & die on sales of annual franchises, so they'd love nothing more than to see that 12M monthly players be forced to upgrade.

Game's pretty RIP on Steam alongside all the other COD games, or full-priced multiplayer-focused FPS in general (e.g. Evolve) for that matter.

These AAAs can't compete against free titles and vastly cheaper multiplayer indies.

alot of newer games arent as good as the older ones,bf4 feels like an ice ring