2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Is Blowing Up on Steam Thanks to a Big Sale and Positive Word of Mouth

A generous terms driblet has seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare interruption its ain Steam concurrent grounds implicit the weekend, hitting an all-new precocious of 61,667 highest players and making it much fashionable than past year's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 connected Valve's PC platform.

Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare successfully rebooted the Call of Duty series, and was followed by the enormously fashionable conflict royale, Warzone, which benfited from stay-at-home gaming amid the pandemic.

While the 2019 FPS usually retails for $59.99, it's presently disposable for conscionable $5.99 (£4.99 successful the UK oregon €5.99 successful prime European countries) courtesy of Steam's Spring Sale — apt the lowest terms it's ever been connected Valve's integer storefront.

Even erstwhile it archetypal debuted connected Steam, Modern Warfare lone enjoyed humble success, reaching a highest of conscionable 3,500 players connected motorboat day. Up until Friday's discounted price, adjacent that tiny subordinate basal had fundamentally fallen away, with lone a mates of 100 players online astatine immoderate 1 time.

Now, Modern Warfare isn't conscionable the most-played Call of Duty crippled connected Steam, but it's enjoying its biggest numbers connected Valve's level ever, according to SteamDB. And portion it's present astir 7 years old, fans are nevertheless leaving glowing reviews connected Steam, with 1 specified blessed subordinate writing: "It's a no-brainer. The run is excellent, and determination are immoderate bully supplementary PvE modes specified arsenic spec ops / survival."

Indeed, Call of Duty fans are present going backmost and enjoying Modern Warfare's run each implicit again. It's good thought of among the galore COD campaigns, for its acheronian and gritty code and standout levels, specified arsenic Clean House. We thought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare offered "the champion CoD run successful astir a decade, acknowledgment to accelerated pacing and large variety," awarding it 8.2 successful IGN's review.

Modern Warfare's resurgence comes pursuing the bruising motorboat of Black Ops 7, which has struggled successful income presumption compared to Black Ops 6, a information that's reflected successful everything from European income figures to Activision's ain admissions. Of course, nary of this takes into relationship the Game Pass effect (Call of Duty present launches time 1 connected Microsoft’s subscription service, which volition nary uncertainty person an interaction connected income astatine slightest connected Xbox consoles). All eyes are present connected Activision for the inevitable announcement of this year’s premium Call of Duty game, which is expected to beryllium Modern Warfare 4 from Infinity Ward.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.