User blog comment:Damac1214/Sales of Black Ops II are a "Cause of Concern" for Activision/@comment-108.82.95.145-20121202211308/@comment-1263839-20121203154748

By the time that I stopped playing Face Off (which was Halloween), the average number of people online on MW3 was 80000-110000.

There are things MW3 has that Black Ops doesn't, the problem is that it's not executed well, and their attempts at changing the stuff they take from Black Ops (like Advanced UAV not effecting Assassin or Gun Game being changed to cycling through 6 weapons three times) fails badly.