Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II breaks record on Steam

Although the success of Call of Duty is perhaps not surprising, relaunching the game on Steam looks to have been a wise decision.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II just set a record for the franchise by having 263,174 gamers online at once (thanks, SteamDB).

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Over 112,319 different people are now playing against one another at any one moment as of this writing.

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Despite not being the largest on Steam, it is the biggest for Call of Duty, since Black Ops III previously held the 63,681 record.

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It's beat the previous series record by almost 200,000 users at one time.

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Do you currently have Modern Warfare 2 installed?

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