Infinity Ward Uncover Some Crazy COD 4 Stats

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Dan Webb
Robert Bowling, Community Manager for Infinity Ward, on his own blog recently posted up some stats that the coders at Infinity Ward managed to uncover regarding Call of Duty 4 ... and they truly are impressive. Rather than babble on, I'll let the stats do the talking for themselves.
 

"71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G.

That’s more than the entire population of Hong Kong (which is 7 Million).

68.8%, or 6,886,509 people have completed Cargo Ship.

This is the same number of adults in the US who were morbidly obese in 2005.

46.5%, or 5,654,643 people have beaten the game on any difficulty.

This is more than the current population of Finland!

2.8%, or 283,632 people have completed Airplane on Veteran difficulty.

The population of Stockton, CA is 280,000."

 

That's a hell of a lot of gamers and it truly puts the game's success into perspective. I bet a fair few of the folks that surf our boards are in that elite crowd with that Mile High Club achievement. Congrats to being one of the few.

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  • im happy to say im one of the few mile high achievers
  • i got the mile high club achievement it took time but i got it eventually nice stats
  • I third on KiR3D & sticks117, yay
  • Wooo I'm in the Mile High Club =]
  • Wooo me too! Mile high was crazy hard. :D:D
  • Those are percentages of people who have played the game? Or is it based on sales?
  • Ohhh, not me yet, completed everything but Mile High Club and New Squadron Record. Must complete these! Ahhhhhh!
  • Yep me 2!
  • Well im pretty sure who ever bought the game played the game ?
  • woo mile high club owner here too the best three hours achievements ever
  • ^^^ Some people may have just bought it to play online or just rented it and didn't finish it
  • I'm a Mile Higher too! a 1 minute mission that took me hours after trial and error :)
  • Mile high club was so torturous by the time I got it it was more relief than happiness lol.
  • I got Mile High Club too Yay
  • It took a lot of tries and a good bit of luck, but I achieved New Squadron Record and Mile High Club a few months ago. Those are the two hardest achievements I've completed, and two of the few where I actually feel like I've achieved something! Great game, can't wait to see what Infinity Ward rolls out next.
  • that means 30% is too lazy to get easy achievements, seriously, who didn't play the awesome multiplayer
  • I mean single player,
  • @ 6 - mjc - That's people who've played the game and logged in to Live. So it could be considerably more, if you take in to account non live users, non internet connects and PS3 users.
  • Ahh Mile High Club i love that achievement soo much
  • i bet you that more than 50% of the mile high club go to this website, i am one of them yey!!!
  • Yep Count me for Mile high, Thankyou youtube for Guide LOL
  • Yay, I'm a statistic!
  • mile high club and COD4 veteran right here...NFaMuS one FTW! LOL
  • Nice to see I'm in a small group of people with Mile High Club. Probably took four hours and a few hundred tries before I beat it.
  • that means 29.9% havnt even done the first misson
  • Out of all the COD4 players, not that many have actually got Mile High Club then... that's surprising, how could you put the game down until you finished it?!?!!
  • Kudos to mr. Bowling for mentioning Finland. :)
  • Full 1k on COD 4 here too lol MILE HIGH Club since 2/1/2008 lol loved it and it did not take too long to get it maybe 5 tries :) Bring on COD 6 lol
  • im in the mile high club at 27000 feet nickleback rockstar mile high club took me 6 hours over 3 days
  • mile high club!!!! what what
  • Mile High wasnt too hard. Just nerve racking.
  • i would have been on the mile high club % but the plane blew up just as i was a cm away from the bit where u kill the guy with the hostage =(
  • Im in the mile high club :)
  • Happy to say i'm one of those guys that's completed MH.. 15 times over 2 accounts ;D
  • lol at 6.8 million morbid fat US cunts, but other than that impressive stats..
  • it took me half an hour to do MH club but i was so chuffed when i finally did
  • i have the mile high club achievement
  • Wow 2.8% only done MHC on Veteran... I didn't think it would be that low. I'm happy to say that I have done it but wouldn't go through that stress again lol.
  • I'm in the Mile High club to It was the MH level and the one where your buddy the snipers get hurt by a chopper and you have to protect him at the ferriswheel that where so hard on veteran but yeah it was really a great game :D
  • i got mile high too! i thought "No Fighting In The War Room" was harder though...
  • So... does that mean that almost 30% of the people who play this game have never played the campaign? Wow.
  • Yay, I'm in the Mile High Club :D
  • Mile High Club is nothing - I have 1k in ALL of the COD games and how many people can say that? Mwa ha ha ha! Good times.
  • woot go me a mile high club member :)
  • Mile High Club was probably the hardest achievement I ever got. @44 I've got 1k in 2, 4, and 5.... Screw 3.
  • GO FINLAND !!!
  • I too am in the Mile High Club. I did the level at least 500 times before i got the achievement. I was so happy when i got it.
  • I have Mile High Club on Veteran. It only took me 3 tries.
  • I'm proud to be be on that 2.8% rate. Done that thing, TWICE and I'll never do it again.....unless there's a bet.
  • @29: People have finished it, it's just a question of if finished on VETERAN difficulty. That's what the stat implies. Too bad my win doesn't count: PC non-port versions not having achievement support yet FTL.
  • yeah ive actually pulled it off twice....its insane
  • i am still trying to get the mile high acheivement.... ....but i will get it.......someday..
  • ya it is nice to be able to say that im a part of all those categories...especially the Mile High Club which i beat twice cuz i shot the hostage in the head the first time...
  • These stats aren't even interesting. It also should say online players instead of "people". Mile High Club!
  • YAY im in that 2.8% lol Gooo me :P
  • Count me in as one of the elite few who has the experience of being in the Mile High Club. Oh, ...and I have that achievement too.
  • wooot i'm part of that mile high club
  • Yeah Mile High Club was pretty hard, this is the achievement that I'm most proud of.
  • I am in the Mile High Club. I like the view from up here. But seriously that a lot of people who haven't played the campaign and it was so fun.
  • damn it feels good to be in that 2.8% haha. i tried it on my cousins account countless times and actually got to the end but headshotted the hostage instead (epic fail). Then i decided i should just do it on my own account and got it on the second try the next day :]!
  • @Poisonheadcrab: Yeah that's what I meant when I said I'm surprised not many people have got the Mile High Club achievement considering how many people own the game, and have finished the campaign, I don't understand how they could put the game down without finishing the epilogue on veteran.
  • hey if you want to talk about the PS3 how about you do it on another site, i hate hearing about that dumb black piece of shit, nobody buys it un less they need a cheap blu-ray and sony is fudging those psn user numbers, nobody plays that shit online no dedicated servers.
  • whoo one of the 2.8% which is a one of the proudest acheive i have HA!!
  • I tried beating this on veteran and damn near threw my controller at the wall.
  • Part of the small percentage, makes me proud for earning mile high club.
  • mile high club all the way
  • I would have thought more than 2.8% would have done that. More reason for me to be proud, i guess.
  • Yeah COD4 1000/1000 here too, so of course MHC also. I did it in only like 5 tries but I got lucky I think.
  • Mile High Club Here too. After cussing at the game for 2 weeks.
  • Proud Mile High Clube Member Here.
  • I'm also a member of the mile high club. I actually found it a hell of alot easier than No Fighting in the War Room.
  • Mile High Club Member =D
  • @71 I'm with you, yes it was tough and took about an hour or so but nothing compared with beating General Raam on Insane. Really suprised less than 3% have got this. Currently playing WAW on Vet - that's bloody hard :-(
  • i Got 1000/1000 for Cod 4 i got milehigh club 2nd time
  • I got the mile high club achievement :)
  • 46.5%, or 5,654,643 people have beaten the game on any difficulty. This is more than the current population of Finland! - And Denmark! Yay im one of the few people, who have finished HMC!
  • One of the better games there are
  • HOLY SHIT! Mile Highway Club has only been completed by 283,632 people on xbox live! That makes me and the few other gamers that have this achievement pretty damn proud! HOOAH!
  • For sure, and mile high took me forever but was worth it xD
  • The mile high club achieve was a pain but i got it.
  • I'm in the Mile High Club :D
  • I got the mile high club achieve on 11/25/07 shit that was a long ass time ago
  • @29 cuz it's freaking hard. I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I've attempted and failed that mission. I have every achievement but the Mile High Club. And at this point I'm pretty much content with not getting it.
  • Yet another proud Mile High Club achiever right here.
  • Waaaay! Another mile high club achiever here =P
  • Another Mile High Club member right here! Took me like 6-7 hours too complete the damn thing.
  • im one out of 280,000 people, i feel special.
  • I'm one of those mile high clubers
  • I can proudley one of that GLOURIOUS Mile Highers. :)
  • woo mile high club FTW!
  • The Mile High achievement is not on my list yet and i doubt it will ever will be as i was getting pretty tired of failing it.
  • Im part of the mile high club as well
  • I'm a member as well :)
  • Proud member of the Mile High Club. Out of the hundreds of gamers at my school, there are only two people, myself included, who have this achievement.
  • @20 I know two of my friends created seperate accounts so they could go through online again. So those kind of people could throw of the stats
  • mile high club still stands as one of the hardest achievement on my gamercard. that and beating halo 3 legendary by myself. i cant believe thee are only 280,000 members though, by the looks of it half are on this site alone.
  • wooohooo my brother got mile high club for me yay :O
  • WOOO I'm not part of the mile high club Because I fucking suck.
  • 100th
  • i wonder if all of the 283,632 people who got that achievement are going to post. i hope they do. I can say that i am a proud member of the Mile High Club. You can do it Vindicator51. Make it 283,633. We will welcome you in open arms.
  • o am part of that 2.8% WOO. did mile high club. 1,000 gs too
  • #101=fail
  • my bad 101, lol 102=fail
  • yeah got the mile high club achievement
  • Mile High Club ;)
  • Happy to be one of the quarter million to be in the Mile High Club. Also proud that I can hold the fact over my friends head that because of me his GT is part of the Mile High Club.
  • Yay!!!! I'm not one of the MHC members...oh wait, thats not a good thing...
  • Glad I'm one of those 2.8% of players that made it.. that was a ton of cussing and retries... and cussing
  • @105/106 nah your right 101 that had his brother get it for him = fail
  • I got Mile High Club too! RE-PRE-SENT lol
  • I'm in the mile high club, woo! Go me!
  • I got Mile High Club as well! It's actually alot less people than I thought had originally gotten it.....
  • WHOO!!! Mile High Club! Yeah baby!
  • Mile High Club wasn't that hard. I wonder why so few people have completed it.
  • Wow. Thats not many people at all with Mile High Club. Woot for us :P
  • yeah!!! i'm on of the 7 million that completed... FNG!!
  • Mile high is considred to be hard. Its not... feel proud if you want to i dont.
  • YAY im in that 2.8% took me about an hour to do a 60sec mission but i got there
  • So now that were in the mile high club does this mean we can have a party?
  • does this also include people that don't have live, also woooooooooooh completed it, longest 2 hours of my life.
  • Mile High Club was actually easy. :P
  • Mile High Club! FTW! :D
  • Happy to say that i'm part of the lucky and proud 2.8% in the Mile High Club :) cheers for us, one of the hardest achievements ever !!
  • w00t i am one of the elites as well to for mile high :) but for the record 283,632 ppl aint rite it would be 283,629 i av done it for 3 of my m8s ;).....
  • I like many of you have the full 1000GS for call of duty. It feels sweet to belong to such an elite group. Now if we can just get modern warfare 2 released, I will be happy
  • only 2.8% of the people on live have the mile high club achievement? man that makes me more proud to have it then :D
  • Call of Duty 4 was a good game, but some of those stats are mind-numbing to think that many players have played it (if not more).
  • Mile High Club Member!
  • Borrrring
  • reply to #1 283k achievers is not a few lol
  • I am proud to be all of these. I wish more companies would produce these stats, it really makes you wonder...
  • I've beaten MHC multiple times. :D
  • These stats are awesome.
  • I's in the Mile High Club!
  • Shouldn't the third stat be 56.5%? Assuming they are basing it off of roughly 10,000,000 people considering the other stats do.
  • im mile high club, all i need is all intel, but cant be bothered doing it. also new squadron record im like 11.8 seconds or summin like that
  • Well I can say that I am one of those statistics, and I would count for about 7 more of those for the friends that I have done Mile High Club for ... fun times!
  • Mile High Club has given me nightmares, I can't do it, damnit, well done to all that have
  • I also have the Mile High Club
  • Happy to say im in all those catagories :D:)
  • Think about it, only on the 360, and recently on PS3 you get some form of recognition for completing it, so while the percentage might be low, its not that surprising
  • Yaaa! im one of the 283K ppl with Mile High Club!!!
  • yay!! i'm one of 283,632 people who got mile high!! i feel special
  • i got the mile high club on 2 gamertags that i have =)
  • Hate to burst you guys' bubble but I'm pretty sure over 95% of this website have that achievement.
  • Im one of those mile higher's also, Along with my seven other friends which payed me 5 dollars each... Easiest money ive made in my life so far. XD
  • It took me a year to get in the Mile High Club. I tried and got frustrated. Came back 8 months later with notion of not giving up and finally got it after killing the hostage 3 times and shooting the bad guy incorrectly in the leg.
  • Woot i got MHC
  • Took a long time, a lot of swearing and I wanted to just smash the xbox, tv and/or controller, but I managed to get it before any damage was done. Yay!
  • I, too, achieved Mile High Club in Call of Duty 4. It's the second one I belong to ;-)
  • I am proud to be one of the 2.8% who got Mile high club ach.
  • Mile High club member right here took me HOURS over at least a week to get that one super frustrating achievment and probably my hardest one to date.
  • I, not trying to be an ahole, thought mile high club was easier than no fighting in the war room. I thought that was the hardest lvl really
  • I joined the Mile High Club in COD 4. And tore that beast up. Happy to be there.
  • HOLY STATS
  • yeha, mile high club!! hours of work. most satisfying achievement ever.
  • i too am part of the mile high club. It's crazy how much of a step it is from Hard to Veteran. I beat Hard over and over again but Veteran was always nerve racking and after hours and hours of getting to the couch before the door i finally got lucky and it activated the single shot scene. talk about annoying as all hell.
  • Proud Mile High Club member and the 1K
  • damned if i could ever manage the mile high club, i got so close so many times it wasn't funny.
  • I'd like to see some online stats. There is still a ton of people playing to this day.
  • I am another happy few to say that I have the Mile High Club achievement, and I thank my online talent to being able to beat it. That was a decent difficulty achievement, and it's one of my favorites.
  • Wow... I'm surprised at the low number of MHC achievements. I'm proud to be one of them!
  • hmmm mile high club. my proudest achievement.
  • im in teh mile high club
  • my friend did mile high club for me. lol
  • I did every part of COD4. I also got Mile High Club achievement and all the others.
  • Im in the Mile High Club 3 times did it for myself obviously, my brother an my mate. loved gettin it aswell hope there's sommat like it on cod6.
  • I'm in the mile high club.....I have that achievement too! FX.
  • I feel so special being part of a low number of people who have completed mile high club on veteran.
  • My bro and I got it. It was a rough on to get but the game overall was fairly easy as it took me 4 days to get 1000 gamerscore. Congrats to all fellow mile high club members.
  • I was so happy when i got the Mile High Achivement! It was pretty sweet
  • Mile High Club Veteran here - took me about 100 attempts until I realised extra flashbangs were at the top of the stairs - then did it first time!
  • 1000/1000 Yes
  • mile high club!!!!!!
  • Mile High club right here, plus i did it for 2 of my friends aswell. they owe me big time.
  • Yeah... Im a Mile High Club achiever... But dang how about the people who did the mile high club achievement glitch. are they included. if they are that's not fair.
  • Mile High Clubber!!
  • I'm in the Mile High Club! Probably one of my favorite achievements too.
  • Only 280,000 for MHC? That achievement is easy and seems like it outa be higher.
  • I got Mile High Club too. Not the hardest achievement I've ever done but defenately one I'm proud to have.
  • I think Mile High Club prepared people for Online. It was intense and it was pretty much teaching you that anything can happen in a Minute or less. Which is true...
  • MIle High Club was pretty annoying but once you find the path you need to take it's ok to do... Did it twice, for me and a friend of mine.
  • I have a friend that used to do the mile high club level daily, just because he thought it was the funniest thing to do. He is normally pretty decent on games but nothing special, but just MHC is his specialty. He has done it on every possible way you can do it. Only flashbang Only knife Only pistol normal way So im quite dazzled more people cant do it O_o
  • i am proud to say that i have completed mile high club on veteran too and got 1000/1000 in cod4
  • Mile High Club member. [=
  • So the real question is do any of these statistics about whos beat what and how many people did matter?
  • Took me so much effort to beat the plane level on veteran. In the end I shot the hostage by accident. I cried.
  • ive got mile high club. had 2 do it twice though. just as i jumped out the plane the three red ights struck!!!! not only did i have to do it again but id forgotten how by time i got new xbox!!!!!!!!! im really happy for 1k but it wasnt worth a measly 20g!
  • Mile High Club member...I do have to admit it took me a couple of tries but you get the hang of it after awhile I ended up having to do it twice because my friend begged me to help him out lol. The new squadron record I had no trouble with that was luck maybe? Mile High Club is one of the most satisfying achievements out there because you have to dedicate yourself and follow through. 1337N355
  • Mile High Club member
  • I JUST now became a Mile High Club member (I got the game for Christmas). Crazy, thats all i can say. Good lick to thoes trying to get it.
  • only 71% of the people played through like the first part of the game? haah
  • Im a mile high club achiever :) i feel accomplished lol.
  • i love these kind of stats
  • I got High Mile Club before i finished the game on veteran, its not THAT hard;P
  • I got 1000/1000 in CoD 4, got to say Mile High Club is one hell of a dificult achivement. This game is awsome in all perspectives.
  • Happy to say i have Mile high club:) I've got to say it was hard, and when i finally reached the end i was dead happy, but i'd say no fightig in the war room was harder IMO
  • Mile High Club!!!! 1000/1000 in CoD4 takes some skill ... of course crappy WaW Heart of the Reich mission on vet is pretty tough too...
  • Yeah i got mile high club, ive done it for like 4 of my mates to Are those stats just for Xbox 360?? im sure that Call of Duty 4 only sold like under 6 million copies for 360
  • Anyone part of the real mile high club: Having sex on a plane ohhh yeaaaa There has got to be one randy devil out there
  • i thought more people would have the mile high achievement i found it was a very easy 1000/1000 game COD 2 on veteran is way harder i cant do it =( lol im gonna keep trying tho!
  • I'm a Mile high club member, not on the leaderboard tho :S. found it rough, made some very stupid mistakes. Cool stats, shows how popular the game actually was.
  • Finland... My homeland! Cool country. Yeah, Finland has about 5.3 million people. To the statistics, they're very impressive! But I'm sure Halo 3 would have impressive statistics as well!
  • All present & correct SIRRR !!!
  • those stats are un real wow.
  • I am working on mile high club right now, but i thought squadron record was pretty easy
  • mile high club was dope
  • working on mile high club at the moment hard
  • Mile High Club is my bitch
  • I did it in like 20 trys
  • I am proud to be one of the 2.8%
  • @188 me too :( but i got it :)
  • there has to be more than 283,632 completed mile high club!! just seems to low a number!
  • The first try i got to the end of the mile high on vetern and my friend had a tactic to shoot his leg so he drops the hostage then just shoot him and i diddnt wanna mess it up bc it was so hard so i tryed it and it said real veterns go for kill shots only :( BUT after like a week of trying i got it :) happy to say i have all 1000 gamerscore in it.
  • I think everyone is tripping on Mile High Club! I honestly had a harder time getting for the motherland on WaW. I really dont think that mile high club was as hard as everyone hypes it up to be.
  • Mile High Club is easy. I believe it was my last achievement. I went on youtube and looked at a strategic way to do it, a few flaws and tries and about thirty minutes later, ding. Not very hard.
  • Ya I got the Mile High Club achievement along with every other achievement for that game. Plus got that gold CROSS on xbox live. Gamer Tag: Ghost 840 Check it out.
  • I got the Mile high club back in may i think of 2008 so HARD to get
  • I'm in the Mile High Club =]
  • Lol...i was in each one of those categories and if you dont believe me just check my gt at ROBERTITO555
  • NSR was easy. Got it first day of playing the game. Mile High Club was a pain though. Got it in about half an hour or so though.
  • Im one of the few :)
  • Proud to say that I have completed each of these. Just did Mile High Club on Veteran this morning at exactly 1:07 am central time.
  • Perfect 1000G on CoD 4. Already nearly done Modern Warfare 2 as well!
  • Mile High Club has gotta be one of the hardest Levels ever lol
  • Mile High Club, the ultimate Call of Duty Achievement.
  • Mile High Club was a fun one. I didn't get mad once, honest.
  • mile high club is hard, but who else has beaten IWs record on fng?
  • Mile High Club was a difficult achievement. I am proud to have gotten it
  • "71.1%, or 7,111,508 people have completed F.N.G. That’s more than the entire population of Hong Kong (which is 7 Million). 68.8%, or 6,886,509 people have completed Cargo Ship. soo 28.9% only bought the game for the multiplayer lol wonder what the stats are these days seeing all campaigns were just the same just different guns and location lol. most people just buy for the multiplayeR? but yep took a lot of tries but mile high club was eventually mine.
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