Is the amount of players online as much as bo1?

[PuiTin]

I was wondering if its like bo1 with online players other than steam. Although bo1 shows only 1k players online on steam, the in game shows about 30k. I wonder if the bo2 is the same case.

Where's the server browser for bo2?

[lewosch]

player counts for bo2 multiplayer is usually a bit higher than bo1 multiplayer; but also bo2 has a more serious cheater problem than bo1 has, just for saying.

the in-game player counts for black ops 1 is broken for ages, on all platforms. I guess it still shows something like "1 million players" on xbox 360, or maybe on ps3. obviously false numbers as of 2020.

black ops 2 on PC doesn't have server browser and dedicated servers, unlike black ops 1. it uses official p2p lobbies by treyarch. so, it functions almost the same as consoles do for many years.

steam charts is a very useful source to learn player counts for any game on steam, just fyi. now I opened the website and wrote call of duty at top right corner and it listed all cod games on steam by the player counts.

https://steamcharts.com/search/?q=call+of+duty

remember that the last two cod games after cod:wwii are released only on battlenet. as they aren't sold on steam store, no info available on steam charts list about them. also the cod games before cod:mw2 aren't steamworks integrated, so many people play them on retail DVDs without using steam. due to this fact, player counts for those games (cod 1,2,4 and waw) are actually higher than it seems on steam charts list.