PC Gamer's resident Call of Duty officer Morgan Park had some thoughts when Call of Duty HQ debuted in 2023, and I'm just going to let him speak for himself here: "Call of Duty's new stupid launcher is a data management nightmare, and it may get worse with Modern Warfare 3." No, come on Morgan, tell us what you really think.
Anyway, I can't say if he was right or wrong on that call, although his subsequent report that "you don't have to launch Modern Warfare 2 to launch Modern Warfare 3 anymore, but now you can't launch Warzone without first launching Modern Warfare 3" gives me a strong feeling that he was at the very least not wrong.
This doesn't necessarily point to a move away from Call of Duty HQ entirely. It's more likely, I think, that Activision is doing a little housecleaning ahead of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, which arrives later this year.
But there's also plenty of demand on social media for the studio to do just that—make all the Call of Duty games standalone and ditch HQ entirely—so who knows? Maybe one day in the not-too-distant future, this whole unnecessary entanglement will be a thing of the past. For now, Modern Warfare 2 and MW3 are finally free of those HQ shackles, and that's a good start.
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