@Ben

Good ben...we need you!!!

there are a ton of rocket glitches actually. Never realized there was as many as i just found... lol

 This thread didn't help at all did it?

Dammit

actualy it probably did considering the amount of PC defence going on

That's only through Steam, so it's not a decent indicative (though COD4's numbers there are lower than I thought). XFire is a better way to see the game's popularity:

COD4 - #2 in the Total Rank
XFire user playing per day: 146k
Minutes played per day: 16 millions

And that is only from XFire users, because the vast majority that plays COD4 probably don't even use XFire.

No other game has as much XFire users playing every day than COD4. Take World of Warcraft for example, it has around 11 millions active players and only around 90k of them use XFire:

World of Warcraft - #2 in the Total Rank
XFire user playing per day: 90k
Minutes played per day: 20 millions

Of course MMO players usually don't care as much about XFire, and many of them are asians, which care even less so it's not really an accurate proportion. As for other FPS games, COD2 has 80k XFirers playing every day, CS: Source only has 35k, and the rest 20k or below. But I do know an FPS that we can compare with COD4, which is Quake Wars:

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - #117 in the Total Rank
XFire user playing per day: 784
Minutes played per day: 76k

A far cry from COD4, but we can accurately see how low the percentage of XFire users are there. In the official site of Quake Wars, they show the amount of people that played today and how many registered an account (stats.enemyterritory.com):

Players Today: 9,169
Total Players: 347,189

So XFire users are only 8.6% of total players in Quake Wars.... If we extrapolate that percentage to the 146k XFirers from COD4 we get 1.7 millions people still enjoying COD4 every day.... and if we try to get a rough estimate of total accounts made for COD4 by using QW's data:

9,169  -  1.7 millions
347k   -  COD4_Total_Accounts

COD4_Total_Accounts = 64 millions!!!!!

Remove the secondary accounts that many people create, and eliminate teh pirates, and let's say we get around 10-15 millions copies of PC COD4 sold!!!

PS: My post might be full of crap, but atleast I tried.

the total accounts is completely off but the Xfire stats are real and all that matter. Xfire really isnt a small chat utility. PC userbase is probably more around like 8 - 9m.

@SSJ12

That's why I said "Remove the secondary accounts that many people create, and eliminate teh pirates", because that's the sensible thing to do and so we could decrease the 64 millions of total accounts to 10-15 million sales of COD4 PC.

It's a very rough estimate anyway, but it does show of big COD4 is doing.

I see your point and I understand that the aim of the site is to track Console game sales. But the site is called Video Game Chartz, not Console Game Chartz. Maybe it should track PC games as well.

Now as for leaving the site. The problem you speak of, fanboys hating on PC, is probably going to be on a large majority of sites you visit. It's sad, I know, but it's the unfortunate reality of the situation. Some people just cant handle other peoples opinions differentiating from their own.

If the site starts tracking PC games, that would only mean that more PC gamers would be on the site. Sure you'd get more PC discussion going in the forums, that's definitely a positive. But the problem of fanboys would not go away, there would only be more PC owners to retaliate (If they choose to retaliate).

We can only discourage fanboism and hope that people can just accept other peoples opinions.

Anyway, I hope you stay on the forums. We need some PC gamers to keep us alert to whats happening with the PC.

PC gaming is HARD to track. Plus it is impossible to get information based on digital downloads so PC tracking is practically screwed.