Is anyone else seeing this in their Steam Library?
I may have missed some news on this, as it seems a bit surprising to me.
I may have missed some news on this, as it seems a bit surprising to me.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare II Warzone is now just Call of Duty© on Steam.
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The change was made 45mins ago according to SteamDB.
SteamDB always counted MW2+WZ2 as the same thing but it getting combined into simply Call of Duty on Steam is... interesting.
SteamDB always counted MW2+WZ2 as the same thing but it getting combined into simply Call of Duty on Steam is... interesting.
theyve been moving this way for a while it seems. theyve been calling the mw2 seasons, "call of duty season x". i imagine this is to better communicate that warzone is now a platform and not tied to a singular yearly release?
Honestly all of Call of Duty being managed uder one app makes sense, so long as you can choose which games are installed.
Yes, they already mentioned awhile back that moving forward, all of the games including those from Treyarch will run on the same IW engine.
I could maybe see COD releasing a campaign every year and then having one consistent multiplayer experience for awhile. Then again I'm dumb and don't play COD so please correct me if this makes zero sense.
Some games are fundamentally different from the others despite being on the same engine like Treyarch's games which don't feature tactical sprint for example. There's also gunplay, sounds, playlists and killstreaks vs scorestreaks (though MW2 lets you pick). It could work but you'd probably need a single developer in charge of it for consistency's sake which I'm not a fan of. These games are for the better with different devs having their own spin on things.
Makes sense, the UI has been horrid this looms like its on a path to fix it.
Its absolutely makes sense for game pass users once every CoD title hits, I think this might be part of the plan we are seeing early due to thr delay.
Its absolutely makes sense for game pass users once every CoD title hits, I think this might be part of the plan we are seeing early due to thr delay.
so we've gone from them trying to hide the Call of Duty name with Modern Warfare 2 (2009) to them hiding the Modern Warfare II (2022) name in 2023.
Didn't we already have the whole discussion about the realisation that the Modern Warfare brand was actually stronger than Call of Duty. Like 5 years ago when they announce MW 2019.
I saw Modern Warfare II got added to Steam again which was weird then realized it's DLC now. All games in one app.
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1962660/Call_of_Duty_Modern_Warfare_II/
View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1962660/Call_of_Duty_Modern_Warfare_II/
Call of Duty® on Steam
Welcome to Call of Duty® HQ, the home of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II and Warzone™.
So it's called Call of Duty HQ now?
Wow, they made the UI/UX even worse. Honestly, that's impressive.
It's impressive just how truly shit the UI/UX work is in the game and now this launcher.
How the fuck did they go from the not good MW2019 launcher which was at least functional to this? The fact that anytime the host does anything kicks you out of whatever menu your in is still absurd.
It's impressive just how truly shit the UI/UX work is in the game and now this launcher.
How the fuck did they go from the not good MW2019 launcher which was at least functional to this? The fact that anytime the host does anything kicks you out of whatever menu your in is still absurd.
This makes logical sense, but the real issue is that it just wouldn't make as much money as a yearly boxed release. Some people have been trained to make that yearly purchase by certain game franchises.
Unexpected, but makes sense, the launcher was always called Call of Duty HQ, they are only making it official now. I thought the HQ plan was sidelined after the change from a expansion to a full 2023 release, but I guess they are going all in instead.
I feel like the games can still have a unique identity. Vanguard used the same engine as MW2019 and it plays/feels different than 2019 & MWII.
They already kind of had this with MW 2019, Warzone 1, Black Ops Cold War and Vanguard. There was one launcher where you picked which you wanted to play.
Now it seems like they're making it official - all COD games for some time will just be DLC for the Warzone app (or the Call of Duty app as they call it).
Now it seems like they're making it official - all COD games for some time will just be DLC for the Warzone app (or the Call of Duty app as they call it).
Ubisoft has already confirmed they're doing exactly that with Assassin's Creed: Infinity.
Something that kind of grinds my gears is how a lot of these Activision and EA games really try to combine all the UI elements in the menu with multiple games.
The current COD is a mess in its menu. Seriously. You have to navigate between MW2, Warzone, DMZ, there are other COD games. Going to events or battle pass pages is laggy and slow. The last month I keep getting a message in between every menu movement that says PUERTO CORPUS , LOADING SOMETHING. I create a class and it sends me off that menu for some reason. Chat issues between PS5 and Xbox players in crossplay in a party..
And then the game lags mostly too. I hate complaining about video games. I think battlefield did this menu bullshit too between BF1 and BFV etc.
Hopefully they make things smooth. the PS3 and early PS4 generation had great menu UI within games.
The current COD is a mess in its menu. Seriously. You have to navigate between MW2, Warzone, DMZ, there are other COD games. Going to events or battle pass pages is laggy and slow. The last month I keep getting a message in between every menu movement that says PUERTO CORPUS , LOADING SOMETHING. I create a class and it sends me off that menu for some reason. Chat issues between PS5 and Xbox players in crossplay in a party..
And then the game lags mostly too. I hate complaining about video games. I think battlefield did this menu bullshit too between BF1 and BFV etc.
Hopefully they make things smooth. the PS3 and early PS4 generation had great menu UI within games.
Nope. I don't buy it. I won't be fooled into thinking that there's a forward thinking plan in place for this franchise lol
This sounds like an awful decision requested by exactly no one in the community. What sort of buffoons do they think we are that we have trouble selecting between two different titles in our Steam library?