For a popular live service game, it is a shockingly short lifespan!

Call of Duty: Warzone wasn’t released alongside 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but rather it wasn’t until March 10, 2020, during the onset of the pandemic, that the free-to-play game was released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and has since received a sequel, so Activision Blizzard is referring to the original Warzone as Warzone Caldera. We won’t have that for much longer, as the publisher has announced when it will be discontinued!

VGC has reported Activision Blizzard’s announcement that the original Call of Duty: Warzone will be discontinued on September 21, so until then you can access what they call Caldera because it was the last map to be added. Let’s see what they say: “We all have had incredible Warzone experiences across the Call of Duty franchise since its first launch, including those in Warzone Caldera.

For those players who haven’t jumped over to the current Warzone activities, expect a vast amount of gameplay choices across three Battle Royale maps (including Season 04’s new map Vondel), as well as Ranked Play, the DMZ Beta featuring five different Extraction Zones, BlackCell offerings, and more. Thank you to the Call of Duty community and our developers for making Call of Duty: Warzone a fantastic place to play together,” the publisher wrote.

And that’s the problem: after three-and-a-half years, an otherwise successful game is going out of business. Those who have purchased content can access it in multiplayer modes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and Call of Duty: Vanguard, but the point is that live service, online-only games like Warzone has no c chance of preservation. The original Overwatch also disappeared when the second part was released.

So another game goes to the digital graveyard…

Source: VGC