Game News When Call of Duty ruins the Christmas holidays, the terrible misadventure of some players!
As you know, Call of Duty is a huge franchise. “Call of” means dozens of games, millions of online players, sums and crazy sales. The license is even at the heart of the battle in the context of the takeover of Activision Blizzard King by Microsoft.
Call of Duty: a powerful license, and games that are still eagerly awaited
It was on October 29, 2003 that the very first Call of Duty was released in France. Since then it is 18 other main games, and about twenty so-called secondary titles. Among these games, there are still the remasters of the campaigns of Modern Warfare 1 & 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, and Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, sorry. This year, the players were entitled to Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Remakeone of the most popular opuses of the license.
The numbers show it again, since in 10 days, the title has generated more than a billion dollars. Enough to wait while waiting for the release of a completely new game, but also to reassure shareholders. The latter are on the alert, since the company is being acquired by Microsoft. However, Call of Duty is at the heart of the battle, since the FTC will go to court administrative, which the British CMA launched a thorough investigationand that the European Union, while launching a second phase of examination, expressed his fears. In the industry, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have to contend with Sony, who seeks to frustrate the takeoverexplaining in particular that Call of Duty can only be in the hands of a single player in the sector, a manufacturer moreover.
That is to say the weight that Call of Duty has in the industry of the video game, whether on the side of the professionals or the players themselves. Released on October 28, 2022, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was inevitably part of a large number of Christmas lists, along with FIFA 23, Pokémon Scarlet / Purple or even Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and God of War: Ragnarok.
The bad Modern Warfare 2 offered to players at Christmas?
Unfortunately, it seems that, for a few players, opening gifts has turned into a nightmare. On social media, many players have reported receiving the “wrong” Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the one released in 2009 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, not the one released by Infinity Ward last October .
Merry Christmas ! Parents bought me the wrong MW2 ? (…)
There are many examples on the Web, whether on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok or Instagram. However, most of the time, it seems to be jokes of circumstances, but some testimonies evoke real errors, made in good faith by relatives who ordered the game remotely or who were not properly informed.
Bad MW2 but… still the best Christmas present ?
In reaction, many users replied that the situation was funny, but at the same time, the first Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 was clearly the better of the two. Even if it is a joke in most cases, it emerges from the exchanges a certain frustration vis-à-vis the remark, which does not seem to live up to expectations around this cult opus.
The number of players has dropped drastically a month after the release, and there are comments ranging from weariness to detailed descriptions of the various hiccups encountered, whether technical, related to specific points in the scenario, unjustified bans, or to the absence of the controversial No Russian mission.
