What? This is not opinon. Only yesterday it was declared the highest selling game on PS3 ever.
Thats just opinion mate. Im not sure why you posted that link Aasati. The call of duty franchie takes 4 of the top 10 spots at 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th in terms of hours played. The only differnce between BLOPS (6th) and BBC2 (8th) is less than 200 hours total essentially 1 person (probably you). I mean thats your evidence of an abandoned game? LOL the only games above COD at all is WOW, Starcraft II and Leauge of Legends. Not exactly great games, and if you think any of those are better than BLOPS you should uninstall windows now. And for their genre, COD franchines clearly owns the FPS>
Keep to facts boys, the rest is subjective emotion.
Highest in money made, not highest in units. Activision pulled this before with MW2 claiming that it was the highest selling game ever on Xbox and PS3, when no, it isn't, it just made more money because they charged more per unit. I should point out, I am aware of the statement Activision made (which they did not back up with figures, they may as well have said the sky is pink because they have no proof), it is the same one they made with MW2, which, as I said, referred to income, not units, but they worded it to seem like they meant otherwise.
And I didn't say the CoD franchise is dieing. The 2 games in the top 5, CoD2 and CoD4 are good games, MW2 and BLOPs just aren't, again, so say the majority of PC gamers (Xfire is a measure of PC before you say I am missing out console gamers in that statement).
And in case you hadn't noticed, that isn't a full time played, that is at the latest refresh. The trend stays the same in positions, however BLOPs is usually tens of thousands behind the next above, not a few hundred by the end of the day.
My evidence is that (And I believe somewhere, not in this thread, I called this before release) for the first month or two, BLOPs took second place from CoD4, and since then has been dropping further and further down because the gamers have been saying "sack wasting my time playing this" and reverted to good ol' CoD4 and 2.
I don't disagree that, for now, CoD holds the FPS market pretty strongly, but that is set to change vey soon because people are already getting annoyed at Activisions lack of passion and awful, money grabbing business model.
Finally, you said "Keep to facts boys, the rest is subjective emotion.", but just before that said
the only games above COD at all is WOW, Starcraft II and Leauge of Legends. Not exactly great games, and if you think any of those are better than BLOPS you should uninstall windows now
You can't just miss out games and massage the results to suit what you are saying. Some gamers dropped off those games for a short period to try CoD, even though they are a different type of gamer that play those fantasy/tactic sort of games generally, but quickly reverted back because it was more of the same old crap.