Apparently, Activision woke up this morning and decided that things had been too quiet in the gaming world. So, they decided to add a touch of pure, unadulterated violence to the end of the week.
So, to catch you up, earlier this week, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, the 2016 redo of Call of Duty 4, started sprinting up the Steam sale charts like it was 2016 again.
While the game was on sale, the real reason for its newfound popularity was the impending release of the H2M mod.
The H2M mod is an active, free, fan-made project to recreate classic Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer in the newer remaster. It reached the final day before release before Activision pulled the trigger.
According to the mods developers, Activision sicced their lawyers on the modders:
Today, our team members received a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the H2M-Mod project. We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations immediately and permanently.
After releasing that short statement, the modders went silent, and the website at h2m-mod.dev has also been taken offline. Now, as you can probably imagine, the fans who helped the game rise to popularity once more are less than thrilled at this outcome.
Many fans also don’t see the problem, as the official remastered Modern Warfare 2 released by Activision in 2020 does not include multiplayer: It’s a campaign-only endeavour.
Fans are also calling out Activision for waiting until the last minute before striking the mod down, which, in many opinions, means that Activision just sat there, enjoying the sales until the last possible second before doing anything to halt the project.
But now I want to hear from you. Do you think Activision was sitting there, enjoying a significant sales bump before pulling the trigger, or was the timing just a coincidence? Let me know in the comments.