There's been a great deal of discourse surrounding the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Initially internally pitched as DLC for 2022’s MW2, the game was ultimately sold as a separate full-priced package. Of course, being Call of Duty, the game was undoubtedly going to sell well, and while we don’t yet have any official figures, the game has supposedly set new “engagement records.”

Taking to Twitter, the official Call of Duty page released a statement, saying “Thank you to our #MW3 community for setting new Modern Warfare engagement records.”

Expanding upon this, lead multiplayer studio Sledgehammer Games said “Thank you for a historic launch. Just two weeks in, MWIII has already set records with the highest engagement in the new Modern Warfare trilogy!”

Call of Duty is not one to shy away from sharing its financial success, and so the fact that engagement was used as the only metric seems to suggest that the game hasn’t sold quite as many copies as the last two MW entries.

That said, in a live-service Battle Pass-filled world, engagement is in many ways just as important as the number of copies sold, and so it will be interesting to see whether interest continues to be held over the next year.

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