H2M Mod Shut Down... Are you Paying Attention, Activision/Microsoft??

Unfortunately but not too surprisingly, the heavily anticipated Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Remaster Mod (H2M), was shut down by Activision just 1 day before release, despite the fact that it required the purchase of MWR on steam to run. Today, I wanted to share my thoughts on the situation as well as what I'm hoping Activision/Microsoft will do in the future after seeing the insane levels of hype surrounding this mod. What are your thoughts on the fact that this mod was shut down?

0:00 Intro
0:51 Why was H2M Taken Down?
2:46 My Frustration with this
3:44 Steam is Great with Refunds!
4:36 Are you Paying Attention, Activision??
6:25 What I'd Like to See in the Future
8:23 Why No More Multiplayer Remasters?
9:29 Wrap Up

[ickybobclay]

Ace is right. No reason why activision couldn’t have just made this an official release and gained some good favor with the community. Instead they just pissed off all the old fans more.

[Sandman]

Steam is issuing refunds for people with more than 2 hours all you need to do is specify that you bought it with the intention of using the mod. I never bought it but I saw a community post with multiple comments saying they got a refund with it

[Austin-lj]

“We can’t have people playing an actual fun game with no SBMM with a big player base!!! That would make our “studies” look biased and fabricated!!” Some stooge at Activision.

[donisgt]

I hate Activision.

My inner child really wanted to relive this game.

[Grandmaster_Vic]

For Activision, this is such easy side money as you’ll get thousands of people buying MWR to play the mod. But if there is something that gets in the way of the newest/current CoD in the smallest way, they going to cease and desist and sue mfers into oblivion.

[ShadowMark_]

That's bullshit. so many cod zombies mods and straight up other video game mods import their weapons from multiple cod titles and they still get to exist.

They just DO NOT want us to have this.

[zincinator]

Can't imagine how those mod devs feel rn

[JakeP]

While Activision is well within their rights to shut this down, this just seems insanely evil from Activision, they've created a PR crisis for themselves.

[rickfowler]

It’s almost 2025. There’s no reason we can’t have access to older classic COD titles that are safe, cheap and reliable for all the millions of fans of COD who grew up with these games.

[RobertoHernandez-cefv]

*people playing BO6 on jailbroken PS4*

Activision: 😴

*12 hours before H2M mod*

Also Activision: 😡😤 !!!CEASE AND FUCKING DESIST!!!!

[Tpuff]

I really hate Activision mw2 is 15 years old
There are probably 200 people plying the base game still across all platforms

[jamesx]

people may or may not have leaked the files online 🤫

[TheLastArchive]

BO6 will still have hundreds of thousands of people playing day 1. The people saying "Fuck Activision" will be there. Nothing will ever change

[meeeeooooww]

An official MW2 MP remaster did actually exist, they just decided to vault it and only release the campaign. There are text string references to a real h2mp executable and using h2mod for MW2CR, you can see it by using a command to attempt to load multiplayer, in an error message.

MW2 MP Remastered already exists, to some level of completion, they just aren’t and probably never will announce or release it.

When the community wants it, they ignored them, when the community makes it, suddenly they take interest and want to strike the mod down. Why?

At least the mod is out there thanks to the early access players still having the files, but it’ll forever be unfinished. They were actually going to revamp the lighting to look much better and closer to the original game.

And people will preorder BO6, without even having played the game, specifically to get access to the beta (demo) for a game that likely won’t be that good. I doubt tanking their sales will make them take back this move, they have more money than they know what to do with, but maybe people thinking about buying BO6 should reconsider.

[Just_a_commenter]

Glad you refunded it, but if there's any way you can retain the mod files, *do it.* Activision needs to learn they can't control everything, even if they strive to be the fun police.

[TheStubbornPlum]

The most plausible reason that the mod was shut down is that activision hates us and would rather us buy the yearly slop they dish out, rather than this

[MavicAVF]

The mod is still out there, people are leaking files for it, some 1200+ people online

[itskhro]

PSA; It is leaked, it works, Zelta has it pinned on his twitch, theyve just got server browser working and they are all constantly full.

Activision was too slow.

[hamza-chaudhry]

I'm interested to see Ace "angry", and rightly so

[RubyRoks]

A wise man named Woolie Madden once had great advice for mod makers, ROM hackers, and other creators of fan projects that bears repeating: SHUT THE F**K UP. DO NOT talk about your project until it is DONE AND RELEASED. Companies are actively looking for projects like these to shut down before they get off the ground