Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 hasn't quite set the world on fire ever since its release last month, launching to rather lukewarm reviews and being poorly received by a fanbase that seems to have had enough. It's been widely reported that Black Ops 7 is struggling commercially compared to the rest of the series (and its main competition) and Activision has been doing its best to lure people in with free skins.
Since things seemed pretty bleak, it fell to the launch of Season 1 to get things back on track. Live service games like Black Ops 7 almost always see a huge surge in players at the start of each season, right? This is the game's chance to bring people back, get the game back on track and try to hold on to the newcomers for as long as possible, right?
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 1 Fails To Boost Player Numbers
Apparently not. If you take a look at Black Ops 7's player numbers on SteamDB both before and after the launch of Season 1, you'll see that it's only managed to bring in a few thousand players at most. On December 3, a day before the release of the season, Black Ops 7 managed to reach a peak of 57,331 players.
Today, a day after the launch of the season, Black Ops 7 has only managed to reach a player peak of 62,229, which is an increase of about five thousand players. Sure, that's a lot of people, but compared to other games and even other Call of Duty titles, that's a decidedly small increase for what was billed as one of the biggest season launches the series has ever seen.
Black Ops 7 is the worst user-reviewed Call Of Duty, falling below Modern Warfare 3
Black Ops 7 is tied with DS spinoff Modern Warfare 3: Defiance as the lowest-rated Call of Duty in the series' history.
We use Marvel Rivals as an example. Prior to the release of Season 5 on November 14, Marvel Rivals managed a peak player count of 93,170, but that number rose dramatically after Season 5 began, rising to a whopping 160,144 the day after it began. That's a more typical player increase for a live service game, but Black Ops 7 hasn't experienced anything close to those levels.
Of course, Steam numbers aren't everything, and Black Ops 7 is free to play on Xbox thanks to being on Game Pass, but player numbers on different platforms usually correlate. A decline on Steam likely means there will be declines on PlayStation and Xbox as well, and unfortunately for Activision, it paints a pretty bleak picture – people just aren't interested in Black Ops 7.
