{"id":8465,"date":"2010-11-10T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"almost-1-million-black-ops-players-on-xbox-live-on-launch-day-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/8465-almost-1-million-black-ops-players-on-xbox-live-on-launch-day-maybe","title":{"rendered":"Almost 1 million Black Ops players on Xbox LIVE on launch day, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Unless you&rsquo;ve recently arrived from outer space, you&rsquo;ll probably know that Call of Duty: Black Ops launched yesterday, and that it&rsquo;s kind of a big deal. The kind of a big deal that puts one million players onto Xbox LIVE kind of a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Treyarch&rsquo;s Josh Olin updated over <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JD_2020\/status\/1928673607286784\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter,<\/a> just hours after the game&rsquo;s release Stateside, that: &ldquo;Am I getting solid intel? Is there really almost 1,000,000 players on Xbox LIVE right now??&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>No confirmation on his own intel, of course, but it was apparently so authoritative and important that he committed an error of concord in his giddy excitement to tell everybody else.<\/p>\n<p>And that&rsquo;s not even including PS3 and PC gamers. Suffice it to say, the game&rsquo;s had a pretty huge opening day. US retailer GameStop told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/31416\/Interview_GameStop_Expecting_Black_Ops_Launch_Numbers_To_Beat_MW2s.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a> that, on account of preorders and consumer interest, they&rsquo;re predicting Black Ops will &ldquo;be the biggest launch that we&#8217;ve ever had, that the industry has ever seen&rdquo;. We&rsquo;ll likely have to wait a week or so on hard figures, but it&rsquo;s probably safe to assume it&rsquo;s going to be up there, if not at the top. Not too shabby for a game with a floating apple glitch. A FLOATING APPLE.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s a lot of infinite Care Package exploits waiting to happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}