\u201cCall of Duty killer\u201d? 3 CoD games are dominating Battlefield 2042 on Twitch EA \/ ActivisionFor months leading into Battlefield 2042\u2019s launch, it was lauded as the \u201cCall of Duty killer.\u201d Now, a few weeks past release, the game\u2019s fallen below not one, but three CoD titles in Twitch viewership. Since 2019, Call of Duty has released four games: Modern Warfare 2019, Warzone, Black Ops Cold War, and Vanguard. In that period, Battlefield rested on the laurels of 2018\u2019s Battlefield V while preparing 2021\u2019s BF2042. Well, anticipation grew for 2042 and CoD fans everywhere were made quite aware of it. Some defended CoD while others hoped the rival shooter\u2019s success could put pressure on Activision\u2019s developers. Instead, about two weeks after BF2042\u2019s November 19 release, the game\u2019s interest is\u2026 waning. In a surprising turn of events, the \u201cCoD killer\u201d has fewer Twitch viewers than three different Call of Duty titles (as of December 1). \u201cCoD killer\u201d Battlefield 2042\u2019s Twitch viewership struggles In a series of tweets, popular CoD content creator JGOD expressed confusion at BF2042\u2019s current state on Twitch. A standard gauge of a game\u2019s interest, JGOD noted how many rows down Battlefield was on Twitch\u2019s games page. Was a little Curious about how Battlefield 2042 was doing on Twitch\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14\ud83e\udd14 How does this happen? Really wanted them to hit a home run to apply pressure to CoD. Hopefully Halo Infinite Continues bringing the heat. pic.twitter.com\/YFhLlpNj96 \u2014 James \u2013 JGOD (@JGODYT) December 1, 2021 And it\u2019s hard not to think back to the \u201cCoD killer\u201d talk. While BF2042 had 3.2K viewers when JGOD checked, MW19 had 6.3K, Vanguard had 19.8K, and Warzone had 45.3K. You can definitely attribute some of those numbers to people streaming Warzone under the MW19 label, or the hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into Vanguard tournaments, but still. It\u2019s not a pretty sight and yet another sign of BF2042\u2019s problems. Battlefield 2042 disappointment reflected in sinking player base As noted by industry insider Tom Henderson, Battlefield 2042\u2019s player base plummeted by a whopping 70% since launch. With those kinds of numbers, it should be unsurprising that the game\u2019s Twitch viewers also fell. #Battlefield2042 player base has dropped 70% since launch, in addition to its stock also dropping 18% since early access. Both players and investors are not happy with this game. pic.twitter.com\/LMPdmogjvp \u2014 Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) December 2, 2021 While CoD Vanguard isn\u2019t without its own faults, it seems that BF2042 won\u2019t be applying as much pressure as some hoped. The killer seems to be offing itself with bugs and errors, so the rumors of Call of Duty\u2019s demise may have been greatly exaggerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cCall of Duty killer\u201d? 3 CoD games are dominating Battlefield 2042 on Twitch EA \/ ActivisionFor months leading into Battlefield 2042\u2019s launch, it was lauded as the \u201cCall of Duty killer.\u201d Now, a few weeks past release, the game\u2019s fallen below not one, but three CoD titles in Twitch viewership. Since 2019, Call of Duty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}