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Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2 (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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I..what the..HUH??

Absolutely baffling!

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[–] MelastSB@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What if you don't own MW2?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year 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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So there's nothing really unique about it? It's just a cash grab selling a mod as an entire game?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year 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 😄