Old Call of Duty titles get cryptic updates
Out of nowhere, 10 Call of Duty titles including classic ones like the OG Modern Warfare 2, 3, Black Ops, and many have just gone through sudden server maintenance. This is actually quite cryptic and unexpected, keeping in mind those classic titles are over a decade old.
Despite shifting to a live-service model, with highly enhanced real life-like visuals and gameplay in the modern titles, there is no doubt that those OG Call of Duty titles, spanning from COD 4: Modern Warfare to Black Ops II, definitely belong to the golden period of this long-hailed franchise. But why are these updates? Is Activision cooking something?
Why are OG Call of Duty titles getting mysterious updates out of nowhere?
The official Twitter handle of Call of Duty Updates has recently announced that 10 of the COD titles would go through a server maintenance downtime on July 2, between 3 AM - 7 AM PT. It was quite normal for the modern day CoD titles, but everyone's eye stuck on to the older gen titles, which weren't supposed to get any update at all. Here are all the titles which has gone through the server maintenance:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Call of Duty: World War II
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Call of Duty: Ghosts
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The oldest one in this list, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released in 2009. So, who would have thought that a 16-year old title, which Activision stopped supporting long ago, is getting an update after so many years? Along with it, BO, MW3, BO2, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare and many more - all were fairly pretty old titles. So, what is the reason behind this sudden update?
This sudden update didn't take long to stir huge speculations among the fans.
Many of them claimed that this update might finally solve the cheating and hacking issues on the servers of older CoD titles by implementing anti-cheat measures. In multiplayer modes of MW2, MW3, BO, BO2, the whole server is possessed by hackers and it will be a big deal to find a single lobby without the hackers.
On the other hand, some fans think this update is all about bringing more titles into the Xbox Game Pass. As of now, only Black Ops 6, Warzone, and Modern Warfare III is available on this subscription service. So, this server maintenance might be a trick to pull the newer generation of fans towards the golden generation of Call of Duty.
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