LIVE Activity for week of 3/31

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BIGBOY — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:03:38 GMT

COD4 Sucks ***. Go Halo 3

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Xander — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:31:37 GMT

Atomicow, Halo 3 already had a map pack released and is still below CoD4.

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slipknot0129 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:34:30 GMT

looking at halo 3 numbers at the menu is pointless since if you have a usb controller plugged in it counts as another player online even though your not using the 2nd controller.

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Action B — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:29:22 GMT

Unique users is a ridiculous way of determining a top game. You want to see what the most played game is, look at how many players are on each game at any given time. You see, with Halo, you can have up to 4 people online with only one Xbox playing at the same time, since UU only counts each login from a particular IP address once each week, those 4 players are counted as one unique user. Also, if one person plays call of duty once for 5 minutes, and another player plays halo for 6 hours at a time, 5 times a week, these are both considered ONE unique user, or in other words the same. If you counted actual Xbox live accounts signed in to play each particular game at any given time, or over the entire week, I'm certain that Halo would be on top, as multiple people typically play from one console.

Likewise, this feature to Halo is part of what makes its online play so seamless and superior to COD 4. You can literally play the entire HALO 3 game with people online, as if they were actually with you. Or you can play with 3 friends in a team battle against other people. People may hate on the game, but the online connectivity features are simply better.

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Darkrathamantis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:05:40 GMT

I just don´t know how COD4 has mpore activity than Halo 3... Don´t get me wrong, I love COD4, but every time I join in for a match the game is empty, I have to wait many minutes before joining someone...

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ROBBMAC — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:02:35 GMT

So much for the "back and forth battle of XBL", my popcorn is waaaay past stale now. Can't wait for GTA IV to come out but I'm making no predictions on how it will impact this list. The way I see it none of my predictions would have been right up until now so I give up :)

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AHeroNeverDies — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:21:58 GMT

@ ProfStevie

The numbers are based on people who are connected to XBL (silver or Gold account) on any game. It doesnt have to be an online playing game either because Oblivion seems to jump in and out of the top ten now and again too. Click on the UU link and it will explain more. It basically says that a UU is any IP address that is logged onto a game is 1 UU.

Thats why people keep asking for the 'amount of time played' instead of the UUs score because they think that more people play Halo3 for longer. Whereas realistically if you were to look at those statistics I would imagine that neither Halo3, or COD, or RSV2 would be number one but more likely the latest RPG like Lost Oddessy.

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p0yo77 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:28:31 GMT

Sir, you should give us some numbers, at least once at month

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FunkyCD — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:54:53 GMT

What will be interesting to see is whether GTA4 will rise to number one spot on its very first debut week. =) hehe....this should be fun!!!

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Joergen8 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:17:32 GMT

I have the common sense to stay away from games with less than 12 month development cycles. R6V2 really is the definition of the whole "1.2" joke in software and gaming. It's a grandious DLC to the first, served on DVD for 70 bucks. When you rush out and buy a sequel to a year old game you set yourself up to buy the game every year, as half/third the quality and content it should have had.

R6V is setting up to be the Madden of FPS. Same studio, same game, nothing new, EVERY YEAR.

Cant wait for R6V3 .. oh no waiting needed, it'll be out by August. CHA-CHING!

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I NinjaBLaz3 I — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:54:14 GMT

LMAO at all the people who are terrible at shooters and don't know how to aim bashing R6V2, when out of all the shooters in the top 10, it takes the most aiming skill.

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ironkobe — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:43:16 GMT

cod4 should stay number 1 for a week then drop to number 2 when Gta4 comes out then come back to number 1

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travis — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:09:16 GMT

Why are there so many people surprised the army of 2 demo is beating the game. Let's see the demo=free, the game=$59. And the demo came out this past week, and that is when everyone tries it out. And a lot of people wanted to wait for the demo to decide on getting the game since it had mixed reviews.

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Chris — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:14:45 GMT

LMAO @ The Halo 3 is rubbish comment. The 94 Metacritic rating and largest opening day in entertainment history disagree with you.

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Anon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:24:48 GMT

More nubs play video games than skilled players, COD4 is nubcakes college fratboys, so it explains why it's the most popular.

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ProfStevie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:52:04 GMT

I'm just curious -- what EXACTLY is being counted in the "Xbox 360 Top Live Titles" chart? Is it the number of unique Gold users who actively play a multiplayer game with that title in a given week? Is it the number of unique users who boot up the title at all while they're logged into Live? Something else? I wonder this specifically as relates to Rock Band -- since you can't play World Tour online, it doesn't seem like it'd necessarily be a very popular online multiplayer title.