Activision’s stop and desist that resulted within the cancelation of Fashionable Warfare 2 multiplayer mod H2M simply hours earlier than its launch claimed it will have “taken away” from the efforts of Call of Duty’s builders.
Final week, Call of Duty: Fashionable Warfare Remastered mod H2M, which sought to revive Fashionable Warfare 2 (2009) multiplayer on PC and had loved big curiosity in consequence, was canceled on the eve of its launch after its builders obtained a stop and desist letter from Activision.
Watchful Wolf, challenge lead and the one that obtained the stop and desist by way of electronic mail, subsequently revealed a video to YouTube wherein he claimed that the reasoning behind the takedown detailed within the stop and desist had to do with affecting gross sales of the upcoming Black Ops 6.
“Primarily, as a result of of the recognition H2M was gaining, and how shut it’s to Black Ops 6 releasing, and the advertising and the beta, they didn’t need H2M interfering with attainable gross sales of Black Ops 6,” Watchful Wolf mentioned within the video.
Nevertheless, Activision’s stop and desist doesn’t truly namecheck Black Ops 6, or recommend gross sales of the sport could be affected by the discharge of H2M.
IGN has verified the stop and desist despatched to Watchful Wolf, which states: “builders are continuously laborious at work creating and sustaining the Call of Duty video games, and initiatives just like the H2M-Mod threaten to take away from their efforts.” IGN has requested Activision for remark.
Talking to IGN, Watchful Wolf mentioned his video assertion “was an assumption primarily based on their phrasing.”
“I admit it’s imprecise and might simply be an excuse of course as it’s their IP to deal with as they need,” he continued.
Regardless of the vagueness of Activision’s phrasing, the upshot is that the stop and desist has killed H2M, and Watchful Wolf has introduced he’s strolling away from Call of Duty modding. As an alternative, he plans to make video video games of his personal, though has but to announce any concrete plans.
Amid this, Fashionable Warfare Remastered’s latest Steam critiques now learn “Largely Destructive,” with many latest feedback from gamers calling for Activision to reverse its stop and desist request.
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