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Loading ...CoD 2 more popular than CS: Source
garethogden
Many of you probably spat out a mouthful of tea in disgust when you read the title of this blog, but before you and your CS: S clanmates descend on the CPC office en masse shouting ‘Go, go, go!’ as you burst through the Labs door and lob in a flashbang, I should add that this isn’t my opinion, but that of users of game browser/monitor X-Fire.
According to games news site Gamesindustry.biz, the X-Fire servers recorded that Call of Duty 2 was played, on average, for a cumulative total of 173,355 hours per day, compared to 158,714 hours per day for Counter-Strike: Source.
This I find quite strange, since, in my experience, CS: S is massively more popular than CoD 2. Of course, these results are obviously skewed in favour of what X-Fire users play, although considering that there are now 8 million registered X-Fire users, you’d expect the sample size to be fairly representative of the ‘typical’ online gamer (especially since 60% of these users are based in Europe).
Nevertheless, these numbers fly in the face of what Valve (the developer of Counter-Strike) says about how popular CS: Source is on www.steampowered.com, which states that Source is played an average of 1,055,737 hours per day – nearly 7 times higher than the X-Fire statistic.
So, who is right? Is Source the Alpha and the Omega of online shooters, or is Steampowered hopelessly biased and X-Fire is right than CoD 2 is the mutt’s? Bet CT all…
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Loading ...Teh best game ever?
garethogden
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I’ve played many, many games over the years, but relatively few have really hooked me to the point where I can’t play anything else, and find it difficult to stop playing and go to bed.
Counter-Strike, X-COM: UFO Defence and the first two Monkey Island games (to name a few) all managed to make this illustrious list, to which I have now also added Medieval II: Total War. Read more