{"id":5507,"date":"2011-11-17T22:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5507"},"modified":"2018-07-16T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:10:34","slug":"mw3-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/mw3-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Blamed for Football Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10796\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10796\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10796 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/modern_warfare_3_the_noob-S-e1427608834711.jpg\" alt=\"Modern Warfare 3... distracting athletes and others worldwide.\" width=\"390\" height=\"212\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modern Warfare 3&#8230; distracting athletes and others worldwide.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 17, 2011 \u2022 University of Louisville football coach Charlie Strong explained his team&#8217;s home loss to Pittsburgh the previous weekend on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: &#8220;All of a sudden there&#8217;s something new and they want to try it and it just engulfs them.&#8221; According to Microsoft, more than 7 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by the end of launch day, November 8, a 19% increase over last year&#8217;s 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged playing Call of Duty: Black Ops on launch day. Activision Blizzard announced that the title generated $775 million in sales during its first five days in release, and more than one million premium memberships of Call of Duty Elite have been sold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact:\u00a0 Lame excuses aside, it is clear that the Call of Duty franchise has become an annual sport along the lines of a Madden football.\u00a0Furthermore the audience for it is growing every year.\u00a0Being a mature product this is the type of franchise that kids grow into but adult users don&#8217;t grow out of. So every year a new group of consumers comes of age to play Call of Duty.\u00a0In addition, Activision now has the Elite membership that allows them to generate a new source of revenue for all those consumers willing to pay an extra $50 a year.\u00a0For a game that provides as much usage as Call of Duty $50 a year is a bargain and we expect Elite to be a big success.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 17, 2011 \u2022 University of Louisville football coach Charlie Strong explained his team&#8217;s home loss to Pittsburgh the previous weekend on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: &#8220;All of a sudden there&#8217;s something new and they want to try it and it just engulfs them.&#8221; According to Microsoft, more than 7 million multiplayer hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,66],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16519,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/16519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}