{"id":25471,"date":"2011-11-12T22:59:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=25471"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T09:09:44","slug":"skyrim-triples-modern-warfare-3%e2%80%99s-day-one-steam-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/25471-skyrim-triples-modern-warfare-3%e2%80%99s-day-one-steam-users","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim triples Modern Warfare 3\u2019s day one Steam users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bobby Kotick is being fanned with a palm leaf and having grapes popped into his mouth right about now, following Modern Warfare 3&#8217;s staggering launch success, <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11877-Bethesda-Game-Studios\">Bethesda<\/a> looks set to take the wind out of his sails.<\/p>\n<p>With both games competing for the spotlight, it\u2019s hard to say exactly which has been more eagerly anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>One thing which can be said with certainty however is that on <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19930-Steam\">Steam<\/a>; Modern Warfare 3 is getting crushed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Steam\u2019s tracker, Skyrim has ascended to an incredible peak of 231,593 concurrent players on its first day.<\/p>\n<p>If that figure doesn\u2019t impress you, how about this one \u2013 Modern Warfare 3 is in 2nd place, with a somewhat underwhelming 78,161.<\/p>\n<p>While some may be unsurprised that Skyrim is taking the lead, I challenge anyone to not be a little stunned that it is tripling the numbers of <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11841-Activision-Blizzard\">Activision<\/a>\u2019s record-breaking shooter.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"PC Gamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2011\/11\/12\/skyrim-reaches-nearly-250000-concurrent-steam-users-on-day-one-topples-mw3\/\">PC Gamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reaches nearly 250,000 concurrent players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":25473,"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":[2,3],"tags":[69,85],"class_list":["post-25471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-skyrim","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25475,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions\/25475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}