Modern Warfare 2 could be very sizzling proper now. All that pleasure extends to the PC platform, the place yearly Call of Duty releases tended to carry out poorly or, in some instances, not register in any respect.

That development has been altering for some time now, in fact, however Modern Warfare 2 seems to have taken issues to new heights on PC this 12 months.

On Steam, Modern Warfare 2 has been – and continues to be – among the many platform’s weekly prime sellers. There was little likelihood it wasn’t going to be a success at launch, however we now have the laborious numbers to show it. The recreation attracted a staggering 238,522 concurrent gamers at its peak a number of hours in the past.

SteamDB’s charts present regular climbs of participant exercise in a single day. Seeing as many consumers had been in mattress or at work when the sport went stay of their area, that determine will doubtless develop later right this moment, and thru the weekend.

This is Call of Duty’s highest-ever peak concurrent on Steam, overtaking earlier record-holder Black Ops 3, with 63,681.

At the time of this writing, Modern Warfare 2 occupies the quantity 5 slot on Steam’s most performed video games. Even extra attention-grabbing right here is that the brand new peak concurrent is considerably greater than final month’s beta, which was open to everybody (a minimum of in its final two days).

The Steam figures, in fact, don’t signify the whole thing of the inhabitants on PC, as you’ll be able to nonetheless purchase the sport on Battle.internet. PC codes purchased on third-party shops are additionally restricted to Activision Blizzard’s personal platform, so it is attainable that is the place the bulk exists.

With cross-play (regardless that some want to disable it), cross-progression and well-optimised PC variations, Call of Duty’s comeback was inevitable. The reality Activision determined Modern Warfare 2 was the best recreation to carry Call of Duty again to Steam solely made issues higher.

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