You said, and I quote: "Combat Master is more popular than CoD: Modern Warfare and Black Ops Cold War that was released back in March and those have only Win version" which
1. Did not release in March, only the Steam versions released in March as both games are 3 years old which you should've known since the games are visible in the Mac Bnet launcher, and
2. Is blatantly false as you posted only Steam numbers, completely ignoring Bnet.
You then doubled down posting outdated reviews of Call of Duty HQ when diamond.g called you out on it.
You also called Combat Master a "free alternative to CS2" despite the fact CS2 is already free to play
Do you even play games or are you just wanting high profile games on Mac so you can essentially console war with PC Elitists?
I make one last attempt to get some things straight in this absurd discussion since you’re trying really hard to make sense but still don’t.
I already explained the purpose of my comparison and circumstances behind it. diamond.g and I exchanged some thoughts and it resulted in just that, mutual understanding. You on the other hand chose of course to ignore those explanations to begin with in order to make such highly imaginary posts. By ignoring those explanations it then became much easier to make up all sorts of stuff in a poor attempt to alter my true intentions.
The goal wasn’t to see if any CoD game is ”better” than Combat Master. It was to see if CM is as good or better than any well-known games in the same category on STEAM. My source of statistics was also Steamdb for obvious reasons. Did I care that there are lots of CoD gamers on Battle.net? Not at all, because Combat Master is not there and there’s no easy way like Steamdb to know the stats there. Your confirmation bias makes you focus so much on details and splitting hairs that you forget the context. Steam is the keyword here and what Steam users think the focus.
There is nothing ”blatantly false” about using Steam stats to compare games released all this year on STEAM and their STEAM reviews by STEAM users when that’s the premise. That’s the thing with statistics. You can focus on different parts and compare them on different scales without being wrong.
If you find such a comparison meaningless that’s fine. If you want to do your own comparisons based on other factors and variables be my guest, but don’t complain about other comparisons when they don’t fit into your own preferences. Don’t try to make every post to be about you, your interests and your expectations. My comparison was never about you, the entire CoD franchise, the entire CoD user base or ”get a got ya on the PC gamers”. That’s just your imagination and again confirmation bias. I found an interesting alternative to CS2 not only for Mac but for all platforms, even mobile and shared the information. It wasn’t until another user praised the game I shared the Steam stats in a post directed at THEM. To go the extra mile to make that into ”get a got ya on the PC gamers” is just sad.
Combat Master being a free alternative means literally it’s free and an alternative to CS2 as opposed to a paid alternative like CoD MW II or III. To quote somebody doesn’t automatically prove your points when you make a biased interpretation. Nowhere did I say CS2 is not free. It speaks volumes that you again put such an effort into this kind of nitpicking to win some cheap points. There is very little room for misunderstanding here since everyone knows CS2 is free but to even suggest that I’m the only one who doesn’t know is another weak attempt to look down on others. We’ve seen this attitude several times lately with all the ”Do you even know anything?”, ”Suspect you don't actually play games”, ”Do you even play games” and ”How the hell did you not know this?”. There is a simple name for that, ”illusory truth effect”.
Here are some other things that are ”blatantly false”:
- To claim that I ”failed to include Warzone in the mix” when there are no player statistics for any of the games (WZ, MW II-III) separately on Steamdb. To compare a combined number of players for three games with one is highly inaccurate since there’s no way of telling how well or badly each game performs and again that wasn’t even the purpose of my post.
- To claim I should've known that both games are 3 years old ”since the games are visible in the Mac Bnet launcher”. The games just being visible there says nothing about their age or popularity. None of the games there state their release date or show user reviews like on Steam. Besides I don’t even use Battle.net since I don’t play any of the few old Mac games there. I just downloaded the client to check your claims which proved to be unfounded. Again I didn’t care about Battle.net either due to the purpose of my comparison.
- To claim I’ve said or implied CS2 is a paid game.
- To claim that I posted ”outdated” reviews of CoD games when the latest Steam reviews of WZ and MW II-III are from Dec, with negative reviews posted every day. I didn’t post any reviews from CoD HQ either as you claim. That was diamond.g and you as your screen shots shows. Reviews I shared are from each and every game in order to be more precise instead of combining them all.
- To claim that player count is more important than user experience and game quality. Since when did Steam reviews suddenly become irrelevant anyway? You used Steam reviews to defend Pirate Software, the developer of Heartbound that was released 5 years ago and is still in early access to show how good it is but when a CoD game released this or last year on Steam has mostly bad reviews it suddenly doesn’t count? It’s ”willfully ignorant”. If you want to choose quantity over quality that’s your choice but don’t try to convince others that games with negative user reviews are good. The Latest MW III has mostly negative or mixed reviews even from critics on Metacritic on all platforms, PC/PS5/Xbox X.
- To claim that negative Steam reviews don’t count because they’re ”outdated” (which isn’t true) and because the games are more popular on Battle.net thanks to more players there. Many games have been released elsewhere prior to Steam but keep being popular even on Steam. Games like Crysis 1-3 Remastered, Outer Wilds, The Outer Worlds, Metro Exodus, Maneater, Control, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Close to the Sun and more were all first Epic exclusives and were released one year later on Steam but kept their popularity with positive to overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. World War Z was for almost 2 and a half year Epic exclusive but still has very positive reviews on Steam. That can’t be said about the latest CoD releases on Steam, like WZ and MW II-III.
It’s amusing to see people suddenly complain about ”false” Steam statistics and me ”completely ignoring” players outside Steam on Battle.net but doing the same themselves without hesitation when it fits their purpose. Just a week ago you wrote ”Linux has overtaken macOS in use on Steam, and developers have taken notice of that.”, all because Linux done so by tenths of a percent, but then you didn’t mind ”completely ignoring” all Mac players on App Store, GOG or elsewhere. Back then the Steam stats and 0.2% was the law. Now I had to take the entire CoD user base in the world into account for a ”fair” comparison.
This is not a contest about being right. At least when I’m wrong or misinformed I accept and even admit to it because for me it’s not a big deal and anybody can make mistakes but you’re so eager to be right every single time that you ignore answers and explanations, make up stuff and present them as evidence and twist and turn other people’s posts to make them about something they’re not just to be able to win cheap points.
So go ahead and quote, think, suspect and plot all you want. I’m not going to waste more time on explaining myself or engage in further discussions. To put it in Roy Batty’s words, All these words will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to game…