Activision doubles down as players loathe it.
The Call of Duty launcher, one that bundles remakes of both Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3, has been justified by Activision amidst complaints by players.
In a new blog post, Activision has said the launcher makes it easy for players to do just that: play.
“Call of Duty HQ was developed to bring players benefits like Carry Forward, easier file size management, and more seamless switching between Call of Duty Warzone and the latest annual releases,” it reads. “We are continuing to work on fine-tuning Call of Duty HQ to optimize the player experience as we launch Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 later this week.”
Detailing downloads and updates, the post continues to say that “Call of Duty HQ is the front door for Call of Duty across all console and PC platforms. Within Call of Duty HQ, players have control over the footprint of their Call of Duty experience on their platform of choice, and it’s all contained within one unified location.
“By navigating to the ‘manage files’ section within Call of Duty HQ on any respective platform, players will see each area of game content from Modern Warfare III, Warzone, and Modern Warfare II listed as separate sections. Modern Warfare III and Modern Warfare II include the modes unique to those titles. For example, Modern Warfare III separately lists the files for Campaign and Multiplayer (which includes Zombies content).”
If you don’t want to play one of those modes, you can “reduce overall footprint size by uninstalling specific content no longer being actively played,” Activision continued.
Players are already saying things aren’t working as easily envisaged. For staters — and as in the image above — I’ve got the Vault Edition of both Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 and went into my Xbox Games & Apps section only to today realise I had content for the game split amongst my internal SSD, my expansion SSD and an old USB storage drive. I’m still missing 2 of 7 game items, and I’m already using 215.5GB of hard drive space. And these are all issues before using the Call of Duty launcher app itself.
Those on PS5 are confused as the Call of Duty launcher is titled Modern Warfare 3, despite a player owning the content or not; if you owned MW2 on the platform but not MW3, I’d be confused as to why you’d think to launch a new game to play an old one. PlayStation owners are also annoyed that Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t have a Platinum Trophy as a result of the launcher.
The launcher also opens up with Modern Warfare 3 regardless of whether or not you own the content. That, combined with fullscreen ads on Xbox for Modern Warfare 3, are making players feel like they’re having ads for the new game rubbed in their faces.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is out now on Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PS4 and PS5.
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