I…what the…HUH??

Absolutely baffling!

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      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!

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        8 months ago

        I doubt that. I bet they package the client with 3 but you don’t get any actual mw2 content.

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          8 months ago

          Other way around, according to the article: the launcher considers it a mod for MWF 2 and as such it can only be launched by first entering the lobby of MWF2. It has no independently launchable executable file.

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            This is very wrong. They’ve been doing this with Warzone (which is free-to-play) for a while. If you try to launch MW2 from the launcher when you don’t own it it just takes you to a page to buy it. There’s no way they would lock you out of a game you own just because you don’t own another game in the launcher. Not defending the practice though still completely ridiculous you have to launch the MW2 launcher first.

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              8 months ago

              Oh. Guess first reading the article at 4am my time DID impair reading comprehension somewhat! My bad 😄

              Still a bizarre way to to it, though

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              8 months ago

              I honestly don’t know. The contents of the short article linked in the OP is literally all I know about the third of the modern warfares 😄

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      8 months ago

      You can actually download it without buying . I wanted to play warzone on ps5 . Took forever to find the download for it but it basically makes you download all of modern warfare 2 just to play the free to play parts .