Classic CoD revival sparks massive sales boost in UK ActivisionIt\u2019s 2023, yet two Xbox 360 COD titles reappeared on the UK\u2019s top 5 best-selling games list in July. Activision infuriated COD community members by shutting down two mod projects that allowed players to revisit classic games. First, the publisher sent a cease and desist letter to Sm2 in May, and then forced X Labs to close its servers just five days later. After Rockstar Games announced a partnership with two of the largest GTA mod creators, COD community members questioned why Activision couldn\u2019t take a similar route instead of killing passion projects. It all made more sense when Activision fixed matchmaking for Modern Warfare 2 (2009) and other Xbox 360 COD games in July. By taking power out of mod creators\u2019 hands and it putting it back in their own, Activision struck marketing gold. Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops 2 top UK sales chart On August 14, CharlieIntel reported: \u201cThanks to the Xbox 360 servers working again, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) reappeared on the Top 5 best selling games in the UK in July 2023.\u201d The Reliable COD new source added: \u201cI think this is the first time there have been 4 Activision Blizzard games on a UK top 10 chart. 3 Call of Duty titles and then Diablo.\u201d It even reached a point when Xbox Series X\u2019s sold out in stores, as players raced to get their hands on COD through its backward compatibility feature. Activision\u2019s decision to bring back classic COD titles obviously paid off tremendously, and the publisher may capitalize on nostalgia again soon. According to leaks, Modern Warfare 3 is reportedly set to feature remastered versions of every single Modern Warfare 2 (2009) multiplayer launch map. For more on Modern Warfare 3, make sure to check out the rest of our coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Classic CoD revival sparks massive sales boost in UK ActivisionIt\u2019s 2023, yet two Xbox 360 COD titles reappeared on the UK\u2019s top 5 best-selling games list in July. Activision infuriated COD community members by shutting down two mod projects that allowed players to revisit classic games. First, the publisher sent a cease and desist letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}