The release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 didn’t go quite smoothly. This is particularly felt on Steam. After nearly 16,000 reviews, the CoD shooter lands with a meager 60% approval – “Balanced”. We’ll show you what’s happening on Steam at MeinMMO.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is on the market and simultaneously back on Steam. World War II (2017) was the last CoD that celebrated its release on Steam, after which the franchise temporarily disappeared from the platform.
If you look at some of the reviews on Steam for the new CoD MW2, you’d think some players wouldn’t mind if it hadn’t appeared on the platform. Because they are at times devastating to downright malicious.
We report on which problems players are experiencing on Steam and whether the developers have responded to them on MeinMMO.
If you want to learn about some of the new features of MW2, start our video:
How are the ratings on Steam? At the time of the article, there are 15,806 reviews in the guestbook of MW2 on Stream. 60% of them are positive, which leads to a “Balanced” on Steam.
Although most of the reviews are positive, a score of 60% is already considered rather poor. Battlefield 2042 fared much worse back then. So far, MW2 has reached nearly 250,000 players at the same time.
What do players like? Among the positive reviews, there is a lot of praise for the campaign of Modern Warfare 2. The graphics are praised, the almost photo-realistic environment in Amsterdam is often mentioned.
But the story and the overall structure of the campaign are well received too. Thanks to the generous early access, the story could be played 8 days before the official release – this left a positive impression on many players, which they like to share in their reviews.
One exciting review was from the user “PSycho” (via steam.com). The user writes that it was his very first full-price game and that just for the campaign it was worth it: “Haven’t really played through a single-player in a long time, but this one hooked me!”.
However, if you take a look at the negative reviews, it quickly becomes clear which way the wind is blowing – because as good as the campaign is received, the comments on the multiplayer on Steam are abysmal.
Why are so many players complaining? The release of the multiplayer was particularly poor for team players. As soon as you sat with 3 or more players in a lobby, Modern Warfare 2 became extremely unstable.
The reports describe that often at least one teammate from the group drops out and thus does not participate in the match. In addition, there seem to be constant crashes and freezes during the game search.
There are some statements like the one from user TTV:ray6696 (via steam.com): “I won’t recommend it as long as you can’t play with 4 in a party without at least one crashing out”.
Especially the stability issues are a major concern for players. Again and again it is read that the game crashes when playing in a party. One user simply calls MW2 “Crash Simulator 2022”.
In gameplay-relevant topics, it’s relatively balanced – the focus of negative reviews is clearly on the state shortly after release.
Are the developers working on it? Yes. A few hours after the release, the developers confirmed that there is a problem with game crashes related to player parties.
A recent update has been rolled out that should fix the issues:
However, the problem does not seem to be completely resolved yet. We are keeping an eye on the issue at MeinMMO and will also check the server status throughout the evening.
Here you can find our server ticker, which we will update as soon as there is information about server stress: CoD MW2: Server status – information on the current state.
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