Less than a week ago, the creators of the Call of Duty platform, sm2, revealed that they had received a cease and desist letter from publisher Activision, and would be forced to shut down the sm2 servers, and, most recently, another fan-made Call of Duty project, X Labs, revealed that it would have to They also have to terminate all of their operations for the exact same reason.
The fan reaction was emphatically one-sided. People are outraged by Activision’s actions, as these coordinated platforms (X Labs, sm2) have become the only way many thought was the only way to play multiplayer modes for old Call of Duty games, such as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Ghosts, Black Ops 3, and more.
While many of these titles can still be played via Activision’s official PC releases, the consensus seems to be that these releases are essentially unplayable, since the lack of tangible security makes them a hive for bad actors, meaning that playing them It may put you or your computer at risk.
This is what fuels the anger towards Activision right now, because these fan-made projects were the only ones security There is no way to play the online modes of older Call of Duty titles, and Activision has shut them down without providing a reasonable alternative.
Activision, of course, has every legal right to protect its intellectual property and pursue these not-for-profit projects. Fan-made platforms certainly take some of the attention away from official COD offerings, but fans who would have simply enjoyed playing these older games, and now have no safe way to do so, feel like Activision isn’t taking them into consideration.
There is still the Plutonium project, which allows players to play World at War, some Black Ops games, and more, but gamers are sure that this will be the next project that Activision will follow, given the recent developments. After all, plutonium is doing the same thing sm2 and X Labs have been doing, so there’s no obvious reason why Activision wouldn’t sidestep it.
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