Call of Duty franchise up to 40m active users as Activision Blizzard beats expectations in Q1

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Activision Publishing’s Call of Duty franchise revenues grew double digits year-over-year both for the full year and in Q4, ending the quarter with the highest MAUsA in franchise history. The strong performance was driven by Call of Duty: Black Ops III, which had the biggest entertainment opening weekend of 2015, and was the #1 console game globally for the calendar year.2 Call of Duty was the #1 franchise in North America for the seventh year in a row.1 Black Ops III also has the highest season pass attach rate for downloadable content in franchise history. The Call of Duty franchise has now surpassed 250 million units sold life-to-date worldwide with over $15 billion in total sales, including in-game content, since it first launched in 2003.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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Creaking said:

Terrible first post. Delivery of new content aside, Black Ops 3 is the best Call of Duty has been in years.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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viHuGi said:

Black Ops 3 is amazing though.

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Toa TAK said:

Bad! Bad first post!

Say what you will about its awful campaign mode, but the multiplayer has been a lot of fun sans F2P nonsense, and the zombies mode is still fun.

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Akame ga Kill said:

Weird the user base keeps going up when the games keep getting worse.

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stryke said:

How does it define "active users" back in 2012?

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tearsintherain said:

I'm currently level 51 and play 10-20 hours a week, its the highest level I've ever gotten in a call of duty game. I love the multiplayer and its been perfect for quick game sessions solo or with a friend. The gunplay, wall running, and maps have all been flawless for me. I even prestiged a weapon for the first time last weekend, that has me thinking of prestiging the classes even when I hit the max (55?) probably would wait for a double XP weekend though.

The gear-behind-crypto was a bit off putting and I hope the outburst has them rethink that kind of thing, I enjoy gear being unlocked by XP and not by RNG (Destiny).

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tearsintherain said:

I'm currently level 51 and play 10-20 hours a week, its the highest level I've ever gotten in a call of duty game. I love the multiplayer and its been perfect for quick game sessions solo or with a friend. The gunplay, wall running, and maps have all been flawless for me. I even prestiged a weapon for the first time last weekend, that has me thinking of prestiging the classes even when I hit the max (55?) probably would wait for a double XP weekend though.

The gear-behind-crypto was a bit off putting and I hope the outburst has them rethink that kind of thing, I enjoy gear being unlocked by XP and not by RNG (Destiny).

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Complicated said:

Funny that they don't surface active users for Destiny and only give the total registered users.

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Randdalf said:

Yes but what's their ARPMAU?

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