Activision lost 50 million active users due to poor performance of Call of Duty: Vanguard

The last installment of the action-war series is not as successful as Black Ops: Cold War.

Significant drop in activity numbers for the Call of Duty saga. As reported by Activision Blizzard in its most recent financial report, Activision as a video game brand is expected to add 250 million monthly users in March 2021. 200 million in the same period of this year.

While Activision doesn’t just cover video games from the war action series, it makes up the largest portion of its occupation, so the decline is mainly attributed to Call of Duty: Vanguard’s lower sales performance compared to Black Ops: Cold War. While underperforming Warzone was also mentioned, Call of Duty: Mobile performed flat last quarter.

It’s not all bad news and the American company is convinced that the series will be resurrected with the sequel to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, as well as the new free-to-play Warzone experience currently in development. scratch

Blizzard and King, they’re falling but not that much

Blizzard has also seen their numbers plummet, though not immediately. In this way, from 27 million monthly active users to 22 million, King has dropped from 258 to 250 million, but when it comes to those responsible for the success of Candy Crush Saga mobiles, their data is higher than registered. previous quarter.

StarCraft’s parents have started playing closed betas for Overwatch 2 as they face a very hopeful future after the announcement of a new World of Warcraft expansion or the arrival of Diablo Immortals to PC.

In the background is Microsoft’s operation to buy Activision Blizzard for $69,000 million, which will give Phil Spencer control of the company.