Activision is formally shutting down the unique Name of Obligation: Warzone, the corporate has confirmed. It’s had an honest run, partaking gamers for a number of years because it was launched in 2020 alongside the 2019 launch of Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare.
That model of the sport, renamed to Name of Obligation: Warzone Caldera after its final obtainable map, has grown to be a fan-favorite after the launch of Warzone 2.0 in 2022. Which has obtained each optimistic and destructive suggestions from gamers. Initially when Fashionable Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 launched, Activision stated the unique Warzone would stay playable. And to this point it has. However nothing lasts perpetually, and it was unlikely that Activision would maintain each variations working for years to return.
The choice to close the sport down will enable Activision’s dev groups to focus extra on future content material. “Together with the present Warzone free-to-play expertise,” the writer says.
The unique Warzone is shutting down in September
Whereas the sport is getting the axe it’s not going to be gone immediately. Activision received’t take the sport offline till September 21 in line with its official assertion.
Which means you continue to have time to benefit from the content material if you happen to favor it to Warzone 2.0. Activision additionally confirms that you just’ll be capable to proceed utilizing any bought content material within the video games it was related to. For instance, if you happen to bought bundles or blueprints through the Fashionable Warfare 2019 period, you should use any of that content material in Fashionable Warfare 2019. The identical goes for any content material bought with Name of Obligation: Black Ops Chilly Struggle, and Name of Obligation: Vanguard.
You can’t nevertheless switch that content material to the brand new Warzone 2.0 expertise. Activision already confirmed this some time again although, so it shouldn’t come as a shock. In the event you nonetheless have unused CoD factors, these will stay along with your linked account on the platform the place you picked them up. So if you happen to purchased some whereas taking part in on PlayStation and are taking part in the brand new sport on PS5, you’ll nonetheless have entry to these factors so long as you employ the identical Activision account.