{"id":24337,"date":"2023-11-14T02:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/call-of-duty-mw3-faces-dramatic-steam-drop-off-from-mw2-launch\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T02:15:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T02:15:05","slug":"call-of-duty-mw3-faces-dramatic-steam-drop-off-from-mw2-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/call-of-duty-mw3-faces-dramatic-steam-drop-off-from-mw2-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty MW3 faces dramatic Steam drop-off from MW2 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The multiplayer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), after its launch was met by \u2018mostly negative\u2019 Steams reviews and a less-than-impressive peak player, count on Activision\u2019s Call of Duty HQ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Activision\u2019s Call of Duty HQ which was introduced in 2022, incorporates Modern Warfare 3, last year\u2019s MW2, and Warzone 2 into a single package on the Valve platform.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Multiplayer Hype Trailer l Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YZhKBAEzSwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the anticipation surrounding MW3\u2019s release, the player reception appears lukewarm compared to its predecessor, Modern Warfare 2, which boasted a robust performance in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, MW3 isn\u2019t a standalone game available on Stream; instead, players access it through the Call of Duty HQ, which combines statistics for MW2, MW3, and the free-to-play Warzone 2.<\/p>\n<p>On the MW2 launch day back on October 28, 2022, a total of 238,522 players Steamed the game while the player count climbed a little higher over the weekend, however, given that MW3 hasn\u2019t had the chance to take advantage of weekend players yet.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, MW3 was launched on November 10, 2023, and saw a peak of 177,881 concurrent players, down 25.4 percent from MW2\u2019s launch day player count.<\/p>\n<p>The Steam reviews of MW3 currently sit at \u2018mostly negative\u2019 with just 31 percent of user reviews offering a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The Call of Duty HQ\u2019s overarching has a mix of reviews with 44 percent positivity in the last 30 days, although, again, some of these will have come in prior to MW3\u2019s launch.<\/p>\n<p>However, the challenges faced by the game, from technical issues to critical reviews, underscore a rocky start for this latest installment in the iconic Call of Duty series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multiplayer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), after its launch was met by \u2018mostly negative\u2019 Steams reviews and a less-than-impressive peak player, count on Activision\u2019s Call of Duty HQ. 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