Call of Duty avoiding 2023 for even more Modern Warfare 2, records claim

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Call of Duty, a yearly collection returning to 2005, won’t publish a new, main-series game in 2023, and also will certainly rather see a project expansion for the soon-to-launch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reboot, according to a supported leakage on social networks.

Twitter expert TheGhostOfHope last week said that a costs “greatest hits map pack,” consisting of multiplayer maps from 2009’s Modern Warfare 2, and also various other follower faves, would certainly be “released for MWII Year 2.” Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, that first reported (in February) that Call of Duty would certainly miss 2023, concurred that Activision would sell “new stuff for MW2,” following year: “an expansion or something like that” which would certainly consist of a single-player project element.

Schreier likewise reported in February that a “new free-to-play online title” remained in advancement at Treyarch and also would certainly release in 2023. Treyarch’s 2024 Call of Duty game will certainly belong to the Black Ops story that workshop has actually established considering that 2010.

Activision replied to February’s reports by claiming it had “an exciting slate of premium and free-to-play Call of Duty experiences for this year, next year, and beyond.”

The restarted Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will certainly go for completion of October. Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, the following model of the collection’ free-to-play fight royale, shows up Nov. 16. Both will certainly be readily available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows COMPUTER, Xbox One, and also Xbox Series X.

Activision’s Call of Duty front runner franchise business has just “skipped” one year considering that its 2003 launching, that remaining in 2004. Since 2005, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and also later on Sledgehammer Games and also Raven Software, have actually turned advancement of the army shooter to supply a brand-new game every loss.

Still, despite 3 years, advancement of a pure Call of Duty operates on a really limited routine. Treyarch was gone up one year, to 2020, with Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War when Sledgehammer Games’ advancement of what would certainly come to be Call of Duty: Vanguard faced troubles with assistance workshop Raven Software in 2019.

Even if 2023 is the collection’ 20th wedding anniversary year, it makes good sense that Treyarch would certainly obtain a rest after pinch-hitting on 2 years’ remainder in 2020. Further, Dan Bunting, Treyarch’s advancement co-lead considering that 2003, abruptly left the studio last year. He left complying with a Wall Street Journal record in which he was allegedly protected by Activision chief executive Bobby Kotick after an unwanted sexual advances insurance claim was made versus Bunting in 2017.

A missed year likewise makes good sense taking into account Microsoft’s continuous $68 billion procurement of Activision, introduced back in January and also subject to government regulators’ approval in the United States and also Europe. Though Microsoft has stated it intends to continue developing and publishing Call of Duty for competing PlayStation systems, Sony claims Microsoft’s public position is “inadequate” thinking about the huge impact Call of Duty has in the console video gaming industry.

In September, PlayStation chief executive Jim Ryan said Microsoft had, in “a private business discussion,” just provided to proceed posting Call of Duty on PlayStation “for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends.”

 

Source: Polygon