Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 2 sells one million first weekend

by David Hinkle { Jun 18th 2009 at 3:57PM }

Activision has announced that Call of Duty: World at War's second DLC offering has deployed over one million downloads in its first weekend of battle, selling as much in two days as the first DLC pack sold in a week. The one million figure spans both PSN and Xbox Live from June 11 to June 14, and suggests the second DLC offering will easily trump the two million milestone of the first DLC pack. Who's taking bets?

Tags: activision, call-of-duty, call-of-duty-world-at-war, dlc, map-pack-2, treyarch

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Heimbachae @ Jun 18th 2009 4:03PM

people actually play this game??

ChristmasBeard @ Jun 18th 2009 4:18PM

News to you, is it?

AvA (ice~) @ Jun 18th 2009 4:18PM

me too...

False @ Jun 18th 2009 4:56PM

Apparently, at least a million people play this game.

People who have different tastes are weird.

nick @ Jun 18th 2009 5:45PM

It's actually a pretty fun game, especially multiplayer... but I'd think it'd be pretty hard to create an awful game with the CoD4 Modern Warfare engine.

Now I know a lot of people are tired of WWII games, but I never played any of them. My first introduction to Call of Duty was Modern Warfare, so by the time WaW appeared, it just seemed like an different version of a solid product.

I know I can't be alone in starting the series with CoD4.

For me, this is just tiding me over until Modern Warfare 2 appears :) ...but I have to admit, they've done a pretty good job on the new map releases.

Billybet @ Jun 18th 2009 4:06PM

Balmer just announced new xbox for 2010

kaiswil2 @ Jun 18th 2009 4:08PM

A link would have helped

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42919/118/

Longhorn of Myon [PSN: MariusElijah] @ Jun 18th 2009 4:11PM

O_O

AvA (ice~) @ Jun 18th 2009 4:20PM

OH SNAP

Storm Eagle @ Jun 18th 2009 4:20PM

He's eating a much larger invisible sub in that picture....

WREturns @ Jun 18th 2009 4:21PM

Comments section = Derailed

ChristmasBeard @ Jun 18th 2009 4:22PM

Isn't that merely the Natal thing packaged with new Xbox360's, which was already announced for 2010?

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 4:24PM

so the natal console is true then?

Storm Eagle @ Jun 18th 2009 4:32PM

I think the invisible sub has clouded his judgment. I'm pretty sure he's referencing Natal.

bioadam @ Jun 18th 2009 4:38PM

This is completely off the CoDWaW topic, but I hope the relaunched 360 is quieter. Even a drop in noise level from a jet engine to a turbo-prop would be nice.

Young_Nastyman @ Jun 18th 2009 4:40PM

so instead of

noooom

Balmer now has to go

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Petebot330 @ Jun 18th 2009 5:02PM

Looking forward, we plan to innovate and grow our business exponentially. We plan to do this in three ways.

(Pause)

1 (hold finger up to emphasize): We plan to expand the marketshare of our product

2 (hold two fingers up): We will penetrate this marketshare and monetize revenue streams

3 (hold up three fingers, preferably the last three, to seem cosmopolitan): We plan to penetrate your mother with our new console and monetize all over her face.

kaiswil2 @ Jun 18th 2009 4:06PM

Bet Taken.

pspfanboi @ Jun 18th 2009 4:07PM

first on teh charts for a second time coming!!!

baby sea tuna @ Jun 18th 2009 4:06PM

What the hell is going on in that picture? Is there some sort of "Ark of the Covenant" weapon in this game?

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 4:26PM

Not only did Treyarch dismantle the Call of Duty series, but now they've defiled World War II as well.

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 4:31PM

cr4sh dummy, have you even played the game? it's a decent game, easily worth an 8/10. it's no ocarina of time, but it's fun, especially nazi zombies. since when do random bonus features "defile World War II"?

idiot fanboy.

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 4:35PM

oh, and baby sea tuna, that's the wunderwaffe DG-2. wunderwaffe means superweapon in german. it shoots out electricity that spreads to nearby zombies. it's a one hit kill.

baby sea tuna @ Jun 18th 2009 4:39PM

How historically accurate!

yo Naturale @ Jun 18th 2009 4:45PM

@ Cr4sh Dummy - Them and George Lucas with Indiana Jones, Right? ... Right?

Wait... Raiders of the Lost Ark is the one that is "real" and everyone likes, right? Shit, that didn't work the way I planned it.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 4:48PM

Yes, I've played the game, it's utter crap. With the resources they had at their disposal the game easily been one of the best WWII shooters to be released. Instead, Treyarch released a mediocre game with bull shit gimmick. And yes, that bull shit gimmick defiles WWII, what was the aim of this game? Where they aiming to make a B movie type game? If that's the case Valve certainly kicked their ass! This game was like a Nazi exploitation film and I have a great disdain for Nazi exploitation films.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 4:50PM

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a classic, don't besmirch that film by callously throwing it in league with World at War.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 5:00PM

And is it just me, or did Treyarch plagiarize the name from a WWII documentary narrated by Laurence Olivier?

Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) @ Jun 18th 2009 4:54PM

"This game was like a Nazi exploitation film and I have a great disdain for Nazi exploitation films."

I hope you do realize that you manage to explain every WWII game in existence.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 5:00PM

And is it just me or did Treyarch plagiarize the name of their game from a WWII documentary narrated by Laurence Olivier?

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War

PSN:JACKOFNOTRADES85 @ Jun 18th 2009 4:55PM

@crash dummy

You sure do sound like an idiot.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 5:25PM

@Jason Statham

Except for Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2.

@PSN:JACKOFNOTRADES85

That's ok, at least I'm formulating my ideas and writting in complete sentances and NOT resorting to personal attacks moron!

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 5:24PM

what was the aim? oh, i don't know, having FUN? not every video game has to be a piece of art. some are just made for fun. lighten up a little, and judge the game based on its own merits and you'll see.

and even though you're an idiot, you're a well articulated idiot and that makes a good difference.

Viney @ Jun 18th 2009 5:26PM

defile WWII? oh come on. It's just an added bonus mode buried in the game. Designed for FUN, not to be historically acurate. Nobody seems to complain about Resistance making a whole franchise out of a similar WWII concept. Or Valkyria Chronicles (I mean, how dare they change the political boundaries and names, and introduce fake resources!). Probably because most people understand it's a video game, not a history book.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 5:37PM

@Sly

I don't have a problem with a game made "just for fun," I thoroughly enjoyed playing Left 4 Dead. I'm criticizing this game because Treyarch is riding on the coattails of Infinity Ward's success with COD 4, not to mention a lack of innovation. Not only did they copy and paste COD 4's multiplayer system without expanding it, but it seems they got the idea of Nazi zombies (that ostensibly seems to be heavily influenced by Return to Castle Wolfenstein) from Gears of War's Horde mode. I did like campaign and four player co-op though.

"and even though you're an idiot, you're a well articulated idiot and that makes a good difference." I'll take that as a complement.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 5:48PM

@Viney

First, that was for dramatic effect. Secondly, as I stated in my last post this game lacks originality including Zombie mode. Resistance is a game that procures innovation with it's story arch, multiplayer mode (40 players online), and because it's developer, Insomniac Games, is noted for innovation. Comparing Resistance to World at war is folly.

Vidikron @ Jun 18th 2009 5:56PM

Who cares? W@W is a very good game. It should also be noted that W@W has a very fun 4-player co-op mode than none of the IW CoD's have. Personally, I played W@W more than I ever played CoD4 because of Zombies and Co-op. I don't give two shits about CoD4's MP so for me W@W was the better value.

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 6:02PM

world at war's nazi zombie mode was announced before gears' horde mode...

and yes, that was a compliment in a really weird way...

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 6:17PM

@Sly

You're right, it was, I was unaware of that.

Viney @ Jun 18th 2009 6:21PM

And I'm not buying the "originality is the only way to make a good entertaining game" argument either. Nearly every game made now copies multiple concepts from tons of games that came before it. It's the polish and cohesiveness that make the good ones stand out. Something WaW does no worse than COD4.

Heck, and it is a stretch, but if you want to break it down enough, even COD4 borrows plenty of existing concepts. At it's heart you could argue the multiplayer is really just an MMORPG class and experience based system pasted into every multiplayer mode ever done by an online first person shooter.

See, I can get overly picky too.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 18th 2009 6:31PM

"It's the polish and cohesiveness that make the good ones stand out" Well if that's the case Treyarch certainly obtains a failing grade. That game has shit load of glitches and exploits.

Sly [PSN SniperChameleon] @ Jun 18th 2009 7:43PM

you do know that most of the glitches and exploits were put in on purpose right? the top people on the leaderboards work for treyarch. they're the ones that put out the videos of the glitches and patch it a while later. how do you think they found 4 exploits on the new nazi zombie map within 24 hours of the release?

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 19th 2009 3:57AM

@Sly

Bull shit, no one puts exploits in their own game. Stop excusing poor development. Treyarch was complacent, end of story. Also those videos were uploaded by known hackers not the developers.

And I feel I've accomplished something today, I've proved that Joystiq possess the most morons on the internet, how anyone can love Nazi fucking zombies is perplexing.

Viney @ Jun 19th 2009 9:02AM

The only thing you've proven is your own arrogance, troll. God forbid someone enjoys something you don't.

Cr4sh Dummy @ Jun 19th 2009 7:28PM

@Viney

Yes, god forbid I'm unwilling to shell 3200 points for a gimmick, I'm taking a totally unreasonable position.

I think what this thread of comments prove more than anything is that there are simpletons willing and able to continually be lobotomized by unoriginal developers.