{"id":110031,"date":"2016-11-07T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=110031"},"modified":"2016-11-07T07:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T05:34:46","slug":"farming-simulator-17-is-more-popular-than-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/110031-farming-simulator-17-is-more-popular-than-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-on-pc","title":{"rendered":"Farming Simulator 17 is more popular than Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farming Simulator 17 is more popular than Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on PC,\u00a0according to Steams concurrent player <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/stats\/\" target=\"_blank\">statistics<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Farming Simulator\u00a0has more players than the latest addition to the Call of Duty franchise, with a peak concurrent player count of 26,044 today compared to Infinite Warfare&#8217;s 15,436 peak players.<\/p>\n<p>While Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare received positive <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109855-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-review-roundup.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a><\/strong>, it seems that its popularity at launch has been lower than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Farming Simulator 17 has been out for two weeks and is priced at a relatively cheap <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/447020\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R449<\/strong> <\/a>compared to Infinite Warfare&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/292730\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>R999<\/strong> <\/a>price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Steam&#8217;s review scores could also be a cause of Infinite Warfare&#8217;s low popularity, as the game as a<strong> 55% overall review score<\/strong>\u00a0compared to Farming Simulator 17&#8217;s impressive <strong>89% overall review score<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the low amount of concurrent players for a triple-A game launch, it may be difficult for local gamers to find multiplayer games in a reasonable time.<\/p>\n<p>Matchmaking issues would be even worse on Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Store platform, as players\u00a0are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109893-why-you-shouldnt-buy-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-from-the-windows-store.html\" target=\"_blank\">unable to play with Steam users <\/a><\/strong>and may only play with other Windows Store purchasers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has a special YOLO game mode\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109821-call-of-duty-infinite-warfare-has-a-special-yolo-game-mode.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has a special YOLO game mode<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming Simulator 2017 is outperforming Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":110033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,23,14847,1219,85],"class_list":["post-110031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-call-of-duty","tag-farming-simulator","tag-stats","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}