Call Of Duty Mod Shut Down By Activision Hours Before Launch, Leading To Review Bombing
Activision has shut down a highly anticipated Call of Duty mod, just hours before it was due to release. The mod, H2M, was billed as a remastering of the original Modern Warfare II multiplayer experience, delivering what Activision itself did not. But it’s not going to happen. As fans feared, Activision issued a cease and desist order to the developers, just like the company did with the fan-made Call of Duty SM2 mod in 2023.
“We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations immediately and permanently,” the developers said. The order to shut it down came on August 15, just a day before the modders were due to release the H2M mod on August 16.
The mod would have required a copy of 2017’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. In anticipation of the mod’s release, sales of Modern Warfare Remastered rose significantly on Steam. After the news about the cease and desist order came out, however, players review-bombed Modern Warfare Remastered, turning its recent reviews rating to “mostly negative.”