I…what the…HUH??
Absolutely baffling!
"I’ll explain: Before you can launch Modern Warfare 3, you have to launch Modern Warfare 2 first. Seriously. “Call of Duty HQ” is just the Modern Warfare 2/Warzone client under a new name.
Switching between Modern Warfares 2 and 3 from the HQ is not like switching modes. Once you’re on the main menu, you could jump immediately into Warzone or a multiplayer match of MW2. Clicking the Modern Warfare 3 button, however, closes the HQ app and launches an entirely different executable called Modern Warfare 3. There is no option to just launch Modern Warfare 3, because “Modern Warfare 3” is not its own game. It’s buried, literally, inside CoD HQ as a piece of add-on content.
The result? It takes 70-90 seconds to launch Modern Warfare 3—at least, those are the times I’m getting. That’s an eternity for CoD, but what’s baffling is that these extra steps serve no discernable purpose for players. Perhaps Activision pitched the CoD HQ with consoles in mind, where games aren’t so easily organized by series and an app that switches between the handful of still-active CoDs is useful."
What if you don’t own MW2?
Then you can’t run MW3. If not for the date, I’d honestly have suspected that Activision were doing a huge April fool’s prank!
I doubt that. I bet they package the client with 3 but you don’t get any actual mw2 content.
Really? Your worst fear? You got nothing scarier going on in your life?
The headline is that of the article, not mine. That part only makes it funnier IMO 😄
At this point being into the MW series is basically having a humilliation fetish with a side order of findoming.
Sadly, that’s the case with most AAA games now. The shit EA and Ubisoft, two name two other examples, get away with because of owning a few extremely successful franchises with huge loyal followings is RIDICULOUS!
At some point multiple people looked at this and said:
“Yes. This is exactly how it should work”
Haha Cock of Dooty blows. Imma keep crying over the turd pile of battlefield 2042
I don’t play either game myself, I just appreciate the absurdity of the situation 😄
That is dumb. When will game studios realise shit like that kills their game?
Edit: not you just to make it clear, the situation.
That is dumb. When will game studios realise shit like that kills their game?
When they’re done shoveling all the money this brought them. Sadly.
I bet it’s so they don’t have to duplicate the login system for their account system or something silly like that.
“We don’t want to maintain X in two places.”
I think that’s called an expansion pack.
Why can’t they just call things what they are?
Probably because expansion packs typically cost less than a full game. They want to make it easier for themselves to get away with overcharging.
It’s okay to blacklist an entire publisher.
I haven’t bought any games from EA at all since 2013 and know I missed nothing because it’s all just reruns of the same game formula.
Mirror’s Edge and It Takes Two are genuinely amazing
It takes two looked great, but there are just so many games out there I still feel ok having missed it.
Mirrors edge was 2008.
I mean CS:GO was 2012, and it only “died” a few months ago. Hell, Mario 64 was 1996, and it still has a huge following. Genuinely good games remain timeless
Edit: forgot about the part where you mentioned “since 2013,” so ignore my point
CS:GO is a valve title not EA. I was specifically referring to EA.That aside…
CS:GO was only a repackaging of CS expansion which itself was a repackaging of CS half-life mod from 1998.
Sure 14 years later the graphics engine was a little updated and there were new maps, but I played a lot of the original and after installing CS:GO I was supremely underwhelmed by the lack of change.
