Without any kind of press release on the matterActivision and Infinity Ward have decided to disable family sharing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The feature, which allows you to share a Steam account with another member of the service and thus play the library of other users, no longer works with Infinity Ward’s latest shooter.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 family sharing was disabled on October 31, 2022, after about three days from the launch of the home game Activision and Infinity Ward. On the reasons that prompted the publisher and the developer to make this choice lies silence. In fact, no one intervened to explain the reasons that led the two companies (belonging to the same group that should pass into the hands of Microsoft) to make this move.
Clearly such a decision was not well digested by the community, mostly for one simple reason: Before the sale, Activision declared the game compatible with family sharing. I’ve been playing for more than two hours so I can’t ask for a refund. If the sharing was not accepted then I would have bought Modern Warfare 2 on console, thus allowing everyone to have fun , the words of a Reddit user shared on the platform. We know perfectly well that the portion of the acquisitions guided by this decision are the minority, but it is still a problem that the publisher will have to ask himself to understand how to solve it.
The lack of transparency in this decision, in addition to the game’s sales that may have been affected by the presence of the family sharing quickly put Activision in a bad light. The hope is that the publisher can intervene on the issue, not only explaining the reasons that led to this choice but also offering solutions to all those who have been harmed by this decision. Keep following Tom’s Hardware for all the news and announcements in the pipeline from the world of video games.
