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Pemalite on 14 October 2018

Bring back the campaign... And I will bring back my wallet.



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RaptorChrist on 14 October 2018

But did the increase in digital offset the decrease in physical? Will we even know?



jason1637 on 14 October 2018

Digital is the biggest ever.
Biggest digital gamr in PSN history
2x ww2 on pc
Biggest activision digital on xbox
Also they had more players day 1 compared to ww2. So it probably had the biggest day 1 and WW2 had a bigger day 2. Black Ops 4 will have better legs so I think it will be the best selling CoD this gen.



Skeeuk on 14 October 2018

If it contained a campaign they could have made it as bo4 with 4 game modes. Campaign, zombies, blackout, multiplayer



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jason1637 on 14 October 2018
shikamaru317 said:

So, digital launch was the biggest in the franchise's history according to Activision, which is likely because console digital is up by roughly 10% YoY industry wide, and because of battle royale people on PC buying it (PC sales were double WW2 launch last year). But physical looks like it's going to be way down, which should result in an overall loss of sales compared to WW2 last year, let alone the earlier Black Ops games.

Hopefully Acti learns some lessons from this, no more futuristic settings for awhile, and don't drop the campaign. 

The game had a bigger playercount day 1 than ww2 so ww2 probably had a bigger day 2 so they are close In sales and Bo4 will have a bigger legs and best selling this gen. Also the game isn't futuristic, everything in the game we have today. Also only 1.6% of players beat BO3 campaign.



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Mordred11 on 14 October 2018

Lol at the people talking about the campaign. This game is huge on PC and yet only 1% of physical sales were on PC in UK. There's no doubt in my mind the digital numbers are astronomical for BO4 and that it will be the best selling COD this generation.



bananaking21 on 14 October 2018

Honestly did not see that coming. I doubt the increase in digital sales will offset the huge decline in physical sales. I wonder if the release date had an effect on this and it's performance in its first week



AngryLittleAlchemist on 14 October 2018

Lol, PC finally matters to COD



Mordred11 on 14 October 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Lol, PC finally matters to COD

The Forbes article states that PC digital sales are more than doubled compared to last year. And since pretty much no one buys physical copies of games on PC anymore, that's a pretty big deal.



jason1637 on 14 October 2018
shikamaru317 said:
jason1637 said:

The game had a bigger playercount day 1 than ww2 so ww2 probably had a bigger day 2 so they are close In sales and Bo4 will have a bigger legs and best selling this gen. Also the game isn't futuristic, everything in the game we have today. Also only 1.6% of players beat BO3 campaign.

Player count does not equal sales. You have to remember that WW2 released closer to Christmas, so there would have been a good many copies bought to go under the Christmas tree, copies that weren't opened for weeks afterward. Beating WW2 on player count does not mean that it beat WW2 on overall physical plus digital sales. Acti would have announced it if it had. 

It's definitely semi- futuristic, it's set sometime between Black Ops 2 (2025) and Black Ops 3 (2065) from what I've read. There is definitely futuristic tech that doesn't exist in real life, I remember in the multiplayer reveal trailer there was a batman style grappling hook, a riot shield that grew in size using robotics and could be used for a ground pound attack, some kind of sonic wave incapacitating device, trip mines with triangular shaped detection grids, radar darts, and a healing device that let you paint teammates and heal them.

Black Ops campaigns suck, so that doesn't surprise me. 25% beat the WW2 campaign on PS4, and 50% beat the first mission. Some of the other CoD campaigns that are good like MW2 have even better completion stats if I'm not mistaken.

1. WW2 came out the first Friday in November way before black Friday so I doubt most people had it as a gift already.

2. The setting is a few years in the future but everything in the game we have today so you really can't call it "futuristic "

3. Black ops 3 is the best selling CoD this gen and has the lowest completion of the campaign so it shows campaign does not matter to black ops fans.