This morning, when I jumped back into Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, over 37,000 Xbox Live gamers were there to join me, laughing in the face of the outmoded concept of “street dates”. How’s it looking now?
About double that, as our European friends join in the fray, helping to bring the current online player count on Xbox Live to an impressive 74,668. That pushes my personal Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer score rank to 93,681 and my multiplayer kill rank to 97,455. Some of my Xbox Live friends have ranks in the 200,000s.
That means there are already a hell of a lot of you playing this thing and many of you playing it rabidly, considering we don’t have figures for the PlayStation 3 or PC versions right now.
We’ll be keeping an eye on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network to see how the game holds up under the stress. Keep an eye peeled for our full Modern Warfare 2 review, hitting later today.
rpgplayer83
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 2:32 PMcoughNoDedicatedServerscough9v9cough cough ahem
Michael
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 2:34 PMIt took too long to look for multiplayer matches on pc version so I just started single player out of boredom. WTF.
Mcnulty
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:13 PMhow long does it take to actually get into a game
mike
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:35 PMWelcome to the future. <3
doubleDizz
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:22 PMDoes this muppet know there’s gamers outside the US?
We got it over 15 hours again genius! lol
doubleDizz
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:23 PM15 hours “ago”… genius. *facepalm*
ROFL
Jay
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 5:09 PMAhh this explains alot. I wasn’t sure if the release date for the US was Nov. 9 so that its on sale pretty much everywhere at the same time NOT date.
But obviously its Nov. 10th considering there aren’t at least a million playing online.
Prof.Ake
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:02 PMI’m waiting til tomorrow when live will really explode. I’ve love the multiplayer so far, but have a love/hate feeling for the campaign.