A new mod for CoD MW Remastered that brought back MW2 multiplayer was making waves on Steam... then Activision shut it down.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is beloved by most fans, and it only keeps on giving. A new mod was set to be released that aimed to recreate the magic of Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer, complete with all original features.
Then Activision shut it down.
Update, August 16: Activision Shut Down Mod
It's a real shame, but it looks like Activision wasn't all that excited about the mod and decided to go in a different direction.
The mod team posted a statement on X and said that they are shutting down all operations immediately and permanently due to a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing:
Today, our team members received a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the H2M-Mod project. We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations immediately and permanently.
— H2 Multiplayer Mod (@H2Multiplayer) August 15, 2024
Reason For Cease & Desist Revealed
One of the developers of the mod, who goes by the name Watchful Wolf, uploaded a video on YouTube, which explained the situation.
The H2M-Mod was scheduled to release the day after Black Ops 6.
Watchful Wolf says that the Cease & Desist hit just hours before the release of the mod, and that the entire team immediately dropped everything, to take their website and servers down.
He also got into the reason for the C & D. He says that Activision specifically stated that:
[It was] because of the popularity H2M was gaining and how close it is to Black Ops 6 releasing. They did not want H2M interfering with possible sales of Black Ops 6.
You can see the video for yourself if you want to:
Watchful Wolf will stop modding on Call of Duty, but there is a silver lining.
The team will probably start working on their own game, and I got to say that I am very happy, they haven't lost all hope.
Here's to big companies crushing young creators' visions.
MW2 Multiplayer Mod Looked Fantastic
Everyone agrees that the footage of this mod looked incredible. In fact, the gameplay looked so polished that many people were saying that it looked even better than the official release by Activision.
The H2M-Mod (short for H2-Multiplayer-Mod) was set to feature all the original MW2 multiplayer-maps and all of its weapons.
Fans were going crazy over this post on X made by the mod's developers:
— H2 Multiplayer Mod (@H2Multiplayer) August 9, 2024
And hype for the mod reached Steam, where CoD: MW Remastered (the game that H2M is launched from) became the second best-selling game for a brief period.
But now the dream has sadly been crushed.