Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II: Only One Platform Allows Disabling Cross-Play!

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It is a bit unfair to other players. However, a little humorous mistake probably has half the world laughing; Activision Blizzard made a little oopsie!

Only some people like cross-play. It indeed allows you on PC to play with, say, Xbox Series users, but in the FPS genre, for example, PC users have the advantage with the mouse and keyboard pairing. Still, console players can have aiming assists in return. Some would turn it on; some would get rid of it. The latter includes PC and Xbox Series users; on PlayStation 5, you can turn off cross-play in Infinity Ward’s game!

Several people on Reddit have complained that there’s no way to turn off cross-play on Microsoft’s console (and operating system). At the same time, on PlayStation 5, you can switch to PS5-only combat in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II at any time! Eurogamer confirmed the toggle, too. There’s a slight twist: you can turn off cross-play on Xbox Series, but it’s a system-wide option, so if you turn it off, it gets disabled in the other games as well. PC users don’t even have that option.

If cross-play were MANDATORY for everyone (i.e. Activision Blizzard enabled it on all platforms without exception, and there was no option to turn it off in-game), then it would be understandable. On this year’s Call of Duty’s subreddit, many people suspect that it is because of Microsoft: they want to combine PC and Xbox into one ecosystem, but the question can still be asked: wouldn’t it be fair to include the cross-play switch everywhere? Not only the PlayStation 5 should have it…

CharlieIntel has posted a picture of the Canadian Xbox version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II on Twitter (confirmed by another Twitter user working in a store. Sadly, there’s not a single screenshot on the box (which is pathetic), but that’s not the funny part. As French is the official language in Canada (in Quebec) after English, the game’s description is bilingual. In English, the top line is “The best-selling franchise on Xbox”. Below that, in French: “The best-selling franchise on PlayStation.”

Source: PCGamer, PSL

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