Will Modern Warfare 2 have the staying power of Halo?

With Activion's plans to release like 20 CoDs a year, the CoD franchise is bound to meet GHs fate.

It's only matter of time.

That game is the definition of flash in the pan. We won't be hearing anything about it by the third quarter this year. Especially since Acti plans to have ANOTHER CoD out by then.

no...I just beat the SP and already played the MP enough...probably won't touch the game again

no...I just beat the SP and already played the MP enough...probably won't touch the game again

chikenfriedrice

how can it not??? COD 4 still does huge numbers on xbox live. World at War is still in the top 3 on xbox live!!! MW2 will be on top of xbox live till Reach comes out, then Call of Duty 7 will overtake Reach. But MW2 will still be in the top 3 all year long

If they release new maps at the same rate that bungie did for Halo 3 than yes it will stay around. The only reason Halo 3 is still putting decent numbers up are for a few reasons...

1: regularly released map packs (well maybe not so regularly released, but still, 3 MAP PACKS released)

2: ODST released a few months ago WITH THE SAME MULTIPLAYER and new maps that were at the time ODST only (i think up until last month?)

So yeah.. it SHOULD have staying power if the devs continue to support it... If bungie didn't continue to support Halo 3, it wouldn't have the staying power it currently does... it would be doing Halo 2 numbers after the 360 released.

Also, Forge helps...

Absolutely not. MW2 will be usurped by the next installment of the CoD franchise next year, and then that one will be usurped by the installment in the year after that. This will lead to people slowly and surely losing interest in the series. Take a look at Activision's other franchises: Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk, for example. No one seems to care about them anymore because no one wanted to buy new installments every single year.

If they release new maps at the same rate that bungie did for Halo 3 than yes it will stay around. The only reason Halo 3 is still putting decent numbers up are for a few reasons...

1: regularly released map packs (well maybe not so regularly released, but still, 3 MAP PACKS released)

2: ODST released a few months ago WITH THE SAME MULTIPLAYER and new maps that were at the time ODST only (i think up until last month?)

So yeah.. it SHOULD have staying power if the devs continue to support it... If bungie didn't continue to support Halo 3, it wouldn't have the staying power it currently does... it would be doing Halo 2 numbers after the 360 released.

Also, Forge helps...

gamer620

Probably not. With Halo: Reach releasing this fall CoD7 releasing by the end of this year (probably), it doesn't have a very good chance. Especially if IW maps ONE map pack again like they did with CoD4.

Not a chance! Far too many people have already jumped ship to either MAG on the PS3 or have gone back to CoD 4 or even BFBC 1 to prep for BFBC 2's release! IW screwed themselves with a poor excuse of a game that has suffered glitch after glitch and hack after hack!! The perk system and Killstreaks in MW 2 are waaaaaay out of wack and the game has lost all sense of realism. The Halo franchise on the other hand knows what it is. A futuristic shooter that in no way, shape or form claims to be realistic. But its fans love it and play it a ton to this day. If Bungie is able to recapture the gameplay of Halo CE and multiplayer that alot of us experienced via system link, Halo Reach will be superb. CoD 7 is in the hands of Treyarch and hopefully they will learn from IW's misteps and make a solid CoD game.

Atm, there aren't many games as actively played as IW's MW2. But it's just some months old. I wonder what do you guys think about this game's possible staying power? Halo 2 was released 04, and in September 07 it still had 300k unique players every day on LIVE (http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2007/id20070924_587060_page_2.htm), Halo 3 was released 07, and 2 years later in 2009, it had 1 million daily gamers signing in to battle each other (http://www.videogamer.com/news/halo_3_logs_1_million_unique_players_each_day.html). And it has at least ~600k daily now, obviously CoD: MW2 being number 1 for the moment. Obviously, MW2 is a huge success. It sold 1 million after a day, But what do you think for its future, do you think people will get bored of this eventually or will it post numbers in the million years after launch like Halo?JuiceBerry

I would keep a very close eye on BFBC2 in March - it really has the potential to become the ultimate multiplayer (maybe until halo:reach?)...

As a hardcore fan of Halo2 multiplayer no game apart from BFBC2 has given me that same satisfaction working in a team to complete an objective. COD has nice mechanics but I was bitterly dissapointed to see that they haven't included vehicles, how can you have epic battles without vehicles!

BFBC2 FTW

[QUOTE="gamer620"]

If they release new maps at the same rate that bungie did for Halo 3 than yes it will stay around. The only reason Halo 3 is still putting decent numbers up are for a few reasons...

1: regularly released map packs (well maybe not so regularly released, but still, 3 MAP PACKS released)

2: ODST released a few months ago WITH THE SAME MULTIPLAYER and new maps that were at the time ODST only (i think up until last month?)

So yeah.. it SHOULD have staying power if the devs continue to support it... If bungie didn't continue to support Halo 3, it wouldn't have the staying power it currently does... it would be doing Halo 2 numbers after the 360 released.

Also, Forge helps...

Doctor-McNinja

how can it not??? COD 4 still does huge numbers on xbox live. World at War is still in the top 3 on xbox live!!! MW2 will be on top of xbox live till Reach comes out, then Call of Duty 7 will overtake Reach. But MW2 will still be in the top 3 all year long

todd2r

Less than 10,000 is huge? Hell, there are probably still more people playing Street Fighter IV or Tekken 6.

based on the fact a ton of people still play halo 1 online......im gonna go with "no".

i don't think so, but cod4 does....people still play it constantly

yeah... so pretty sure Fun has nothing to do with it... gamer620

People play it because it's fun, it's stable, it's well-supported and unlike games like COD it has a proper matchmaking and ranking system which keeps it highly competitive. Doctor-McNinja

Nailed it right on the head there.

[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"] People play it because it's fun, it's stable, it's well-supported and unlike games like COD it has a proper matchmaking and ranking system which keeps it highly competitive. dr_octagon

Nailed it right on the head there.

how can it not??? COD 4 still does huge numbers on xbox live. World at War is still in the top 3 on xbox live!!! MW2 will be on top of xbox live till Reach comes out, then Call of Duty 7 will overtake Reach. But MW2 will still be in the top 3 all year long

todd2r

7 might overtake Reach for a few days. But those are the people who don't know that Treyarch and IW make different COD titles now. and there's plenty of them.

Reach will reign the XBL sector until MW3. which I'll assume is highly highly likely.

ummm with a new COD out every year I doubt it. IF they took a break though (which they wont)then definately

Modern Warfare will go the way of Guitar Hero.

No, a new COD is released every year. When COD 2010 comes out, the MW2 crowd is going to play that. When COD 2011 comes out, the 2010 crowd is going to move onto that.

Halo is spaced out. Two years later Halo 3 is still pulling in around 250k at it's peak. COD4 is nowhere near that, I've only seen it get to around 75k at it's peak.

I'm surprised WAW is doing so well.

Anyway I feel like MW2 should hold out better than most online games due to the unlocking features. Sure the series might Tony Hawk it, but that'll take several years, and a complete lack of innovation. Also anybody know if IW is actually going to be doing COD anymore I heard they wanted to do new IP?

With Activion's plans to release like 20 CoDs a year, the CoD franchise is bound to meet GHs fate.

It's only matter of time.

GreenGoblin2099

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I can't imagine it, the game is all about kills and killstreaks, and everyone tries to find the cheapest way to rack up kills to get a killstreak instead of working with a team to win. It won't realy have the staying power without all the community tools and the game is designed to cater to more loners who just want high scores. With that said, notice my tag, MW2 should still be up there, but once i play some other things it will dissapear, and not come back.

I sold it today, never sold COD4 and played it all the time. To answer your question: no.

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x8VXU6

my prediction: COD4 will still be played when MW2's online has died out

I hope not, Halo is much better too.

No. The next COD game will be out by the end of the year and everyone will jump to that. Halo 3 has been around for a few years without a true sequel, hence it's staying power.

The staying power of these popular games are as long as it takes for a sequel to be made.