{"id":936356,"date":"2025-12-30T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vFHnJGgRcrB7tNfS5x3NxH"},"modified":"2025-12-30T00:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T00:05:18","slug":"activision-kills-ambitious-h2m-modern-warfare-2-mod-one-day-before-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/activision-kills-ambitious-h2m-modern-warfare-2-mod-one-day-before-its-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Activision kills ambitious H2M Modern Warfare 2 mod one day before its release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered<\/a>, the 2016 redo of Call of Duty 4, made a surprise climb up the top-sellers chart of Steam<\/a> earlier this week. Being on sale helped, but the real reason was the looming release of the H2M mod, a massive, free fan-made project that aimed to recreate classic Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer in the newer remaster. But the whole thing has been shot down at the last minute: One day before the mod was set to go live, the developers say Activision's lawyers came knocking.<\/p>\n

“Today, our team members received a Cease & Desist order on behalf of Activision Publishing in relation to the H2M-Mod project,” the team said on Twitter<\/a>. “We are complying with this order and shutting down all operations immediately and permanently.”<\/p>\n

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There's been no further communication from the makers of H2M, but the website at h2m-mod.dev<\/a> has also been taken offline.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, an awful lot of Call of Duty fans are not happy with this outcome. For one thing, there's a real desire for Modern Warfare 2 (2009) multiplayer amongst the fans: As staff writer and Modern Warguy Morgan Park said when he wrote about the H2M mod earlier this week<\/a>, “Modern Warfare 2 is still considered peak CoD for many teens of the late aughts.” Despite that, the official remastered Modern Warfare 2 released by Activision in 2020 does not include any multiplayer: It's a campaign-only endeavor.<\/p>\n

And not only did H2M include remasters of all the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer maps, it also featured campaign levels reworked for multiplayer combat, and every Call of Duty 4 map as well\u201454 maps in total. That's a big deal, and it makes the C&D a big loss.<\/p>\n

But what's also chapping a lot of asses is the fact that Activision waited until the last possible minute before dropping the C&D on the project\u2014and, more to the point, until the end of the Steam sale. As we noted, an awful lot of people rushed out to buy Modern Warfare Remastered for half-price solely to play the H2M mod, and there's a sense among some fans that Activision intentionally let things slide to take advantage of the big sales bump. That's led a lot of H2M followers on Twitter, some with large followings themselves, to urge everyone to be sure to refund the game while they can.<\/p>\n

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