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SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

This year, Call of Duty's secret weapon is Steam
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-year-call-of-dutys-secret-weapon-is-steam/
Call of Duty is selling big on PC this year. Activision said in a Q3 financial report published today that Modern Warfare 2 has sold "approximately twice the level of recent strong titles in the series." That's a weirdly non-specific qualifier, though it's in contribution to what has become the fastest Call of Duty in history to reach $1 billion in sales.
What changed on PC this year? Surely some of the increase can be attributed to enthusiasm around the Modern Warfare series, but the true culprit is Steam.
Modern Warfare 2 is the first Call of Duty to launch on Steam in five years. Starting with Black Ops 4 in 2018, the last four Calls of Duty (including Warzone) have only existed in the Battle.net client on PC. Thankfully, Modern Warfare 2 isn't one of those "launches another launcher" deals either: hitting play on Steam gets right into the game.

Hopefully SE gets the message instead of continuing to do EGS exclusivity nonsense

Doubtful. Activision pulled CoD from Steam to their own launcher to get 100% of the money. S-E still gets money from the Steam users, but first they get a nice sum of money to launch their games only on the EGS for half a year. For S-E, it's a win-win scenario: they get the exclusivity deal and later the money from the Steam users.

In fact, they do it not once, but twice. First the exclusivity deal with Sony, then the one with Epic and after thatm they launch it on Steam. You can bet all your money that they would acept another exclusivity deal on top of that in a heartbeat.

And well, we all know that those on Steam that complain and swear that they won't buy their games after having to wait for so long are a small minority that won't have a real effect on the sales.