CALL of Duty maker Activision has announced that one of the franchise’s titles is being retired “effective immediately”;;.
The -owned gaming behemoth admitted to millions of COD fans that this particular chapter in the game’s 23 year history had “not met our expectations”;;.
: Warzone Mobile was only released little over a year ago.
The free-to-play mobile game hit 15million players in its first four days.
But Warzone Mobile didn’t appear to match the same success COD has seen on PC, and .
The game was withdrawn from and the ‘s App Store on Sunday in the first step towards closure.
And players can no longer spend real currency in the mobile game.
However, the game isn’t disappearing immediately for those who already have it installed.
says servers will “remain available”;; for now and it will “notify players of any changes”;;.
And any remaining COD Points users have can be redeemed in-game towards already available content in the store.
There will not be any new seasonal content and gameplay updates, meaning Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile’s days are numbered and it will eventually close for good once existing users have used up their points and stopped playing.
“This decision was made after careful consideration and while we’re proud of the accomplishment in bringingCall of Duty: Warzone to mobile in an authentic way, it unfortunately has not met our expectations with mobile-first players like it has with PC and console audiences,”;; Activision said.
Some gamers have called the closure an “end of an era”;;.
But the vast majority of online reaction seems to be that the decision “isn’t surprising”;;.
“The game went through so much wrong decision-making, especially with the decision to just tone down the pc/console version for mobile version, instead of developing the game from the ground up,”;; one person wrote on .
“The result? Absolute trash of optimization and quality. Even on any newer flagships, the game runs poorly and looks bad.”;;
FREE UPGRADE OFFER
Fans of Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile are being offered a free upgrade on the franchise’s other mobile title, Call of Duty: Mobile.
Call of Duty: Warzone Mobileplayers can log in toCall of Duty: Mobile using their Activision account and they’ll receive COD Points redeemable in Call of Duty: Mobileequal to 2X the amount of their Call of Duty: Warzone MobileCOD Points balance.
Plus Activision says it will offer “other awesome rewards”;;.
Users will have until August 15 to redeem the promotion.
