Warzone 1.0 will continue as “a separate experience”
Call Of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is coming later this year, but progress and inventories won’t carry across from the existing Warzone. Instead, it’ll be a fresh start and will run concurrently alongside the existing game. Infinity Ward offered a few details of the new game as part oftheir reveal of Modern Warfare 2earlier this evening.
Apost on the Call Of Duty sitedetailing Modern Warfare 2 includes this on the future of Warzone:
A fresh start isn’t entirely a bad thing, as our Ed has found himselfoverwhelmed by the constant churn of content(supporters only) in Warzone currently. It does mean players have to start earning those weapon unlocks all over again, however - or, if they paid money for items, they may find they have to buy equivalents a second time. Plus, if the existing Warzone continues as a separate, supported experience as the post above states, it risks splitting the community across two live games.
Part of tonight’s announcement was that Call Of Duty “is coming back to Steam on PC starting with Modern Warfare II.” While that’s not confirmation that Warzone 2.0 will be available on Steam, it’s a strong suggestion. Recent Call Of Duty games have been exclusive to Activision Blizzard’s own Battle.net platform.
Warzone is being developed by Infinity Ward alongside Raven Software. Two weeks ago, Raven Software QA staffvoted in favour of uninionisingafterseveral attempts by Activision to stop that happening. Raven Software QA staff began to organise afterexperiencing layoffs after the release of major Warzone updates late last year.
