As I said last night Mac, there were 80,000 playing MW3 whilst 95,000 playing BLOPS (and it's only April).

This may have not been peak time but Black Ops (at this time) had around 250,000+ until Mid-October.

Even finding a match on Black Ops last night as a party of 3 with all DLC map packs was much faster than finding a match on MW3 with DLC disabled.

The only time I'll be playing MW3 will be playing Clan Ops and then back to playing Black Ops multiplayer & zombies. Even on my friends list (including some of the 4RUM & EU4M folk), I've noticed that I see less than 3 players on MW3. It's either Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 or Black Ops.

If I try to start to a party on MW3, I struggle to fill up 6 players.

maccabi wrote:

 

DerGeraeeet wrote:

 

I remember in the MW2 days when everyone on my friends list had MW2 and sometimes the party was that big that we were forced to play Ground War, good times, good times.

 

Now today, only 1 person is playing MW3 on my friend list, everyone else is sick of the lag in this game, some have already sold it because they lost hope in IW, and only 3 are waiting for a lag fix update.

 

I could playing solo or joining a clan but thats extremly boring to me, playing with friends and having fun is what made CoD so great and enjoyable, if this won't be fixed then we will switch to a new game, maybe respawns upcoming shooter.

exactly same for me and quite a few others, but we've said it time and time again to ghandi , i was the last hold out from my "group" ..now i hop on to play maybe 2 games in a clan ops just to get bronze and some clan xp incase we ever need it  and go off to blops or another game

@ G IH A IN ID II:

i still want to know what this new network team is. When were they hired and why now? Slack in DLC sales?! I have next to noone playing this....well I cutoff that remark before it get started.

DerGeraeeet wrote:

 

@Ghandi & Infinity Ward: you guys better hurry up and release the Matchmaking update very soon because a lot of people i know have stopped playing this game completly and some even sold it because of how frustrating the lag is in MW3, please fix it till its to late.

I have not played this game in over a month. I've moved onto other games that don't infuriate the cake out of me, but I don't want it to be that way. I want MW3 to be a fantastic game but IW doesn't seem to be doing anything to help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JugAlqqtHAA&feature=plcp

I think we've all been there :-)

CTOP

DerGeraeeet wrote:

 

I remember in the MW2 days when everyone on my friends list had MW2 and sometimes the party was that big that we were forced to play Ground War, good times, good times.

 

Now today, only 1 person is playing MW3 on my friend list, everyone else is sick of the lag in this game, some have already sold it because they lost hope in IW, and only 3 are waiting for a lag fix update.

 

I could playing solo or joining a clan but thats extremly boring to me, playing with friends and having fun is what made CoD so great and enjoyable, if this won't be fixed then we will switch to a new game, maybe respawns upcoming shooter.

I have 30 friends on my list. Me and other 2 guys are still playing at MW3 ( I play less than before too). Two months ago most of my friends were playing MW3. If I had to make  a statistic, based on my friends, around 80% of them stopped to play MW3. Most of them are COD's fans series, some of them have played MW2 for two years waiting for MW3.

I have reached the 15th prestige, so now i can stop to play too.

I have no fun to play this game, for the lag/sync issues, for the matchmaking system, but also for others things like spawn system and deathstreaks.

This game, apart all problems we are discussing, was thought wrong from the start, when someone had the idea of make it "fair".

The added latency for better connections, spawn revenge, deathstreaks, and support streaks, don't make the game fair, but have deteriorated it.

Another thing is to start everyone with the same possibility, that is different to what they did, trying to make the game fair for all.

I don't think that my friends will return to play it, even if it will be fixed in some part. They/I are/am bored and disappointed by this game too much, for thinking to get back.