Not a day passes without an interesting little tidbit emerging from the ongoing FTC vs Microsoft trial. Now a surprising secret about a million Call of Duty PlayStation players has been leaked.
Players across all platforms and titles love to complain about video games. And sometimes even more about their favorite ones - yes, I'm looking at you, League of Legends fans.
In the ongoing trial between the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft, a dark secret about one particular community was leaked. And this community likes to complain a lot...
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A Million CoD Player Share A Surprising Secret
That some parts of the CoD community love to complain and hate on the game is obvious to anyone who has ever been in a CoD lobby. And the same goes for anyone who has wandered too deep into the CoD Subreddit and forums. Despite all the whining however, Call of Duty is one of the most beloved shooter franchises in the world and has made a ludicrous amount of money.
Now, you might ask: How is that even possible? How is this game so profitable when a seemingly such a big portion of the players are complaining about the game non-stop? Well, some of them share a dark secret! About a million of them, to be specific.
A document presented in the FTC trial revealed the game time that PlayStation players spend in Call of Duty, and if they play other games on their console as well. The "partially redacted" document was analyzed by Sean Hollister from theverge.com and the result was astonishing.
In this picture, the Twitter site "CharlieIntel" shared the "blacked document".
In 2021, over 1 MILLION PlayStation players ONLY played Call of Duty on their PlayStation and nothing else 6 million PlayStation gamers spent 70% of their time only playing Call of Duty pic.twitter.com/e43PmMo9Tl
— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) June 28, 2023
According to the documents, over 6 million PlayStation users spent more than 70% of their time on Call of Duty and about 1 million of them spent 100% of their game time on CoD. Of course these are the hardcore part of the community, but most likely the loudest one in forums as well. So it might be the case that the players, that complain the most about CoD, are only playing Call of Duty and nothing else.
Never heard of this before... Looking at you again, League of Legends!