Update: 15/08/2024 23:39PM BST - Outraged fans of the mod have been flocking to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered Steam page to review bomb the title, with its recent review score dropping to Mostly Negative as a result.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has a special place in many gamers' hearts, mostly down to its excellent multiplayer. We've all spent far too long trying to jump onto the roof on Highrise, sitting at the top of the tower on Rust, and running around causing chaos in Terminal, and a recently released mod for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Remastered aimed to restore that classic multiplayer feeling.
In fact, it actually succeeded too, having delighted fans as they tried it out, as content creators jumped in and started making their own videos on the project. Surprisingly, the release of the mod also caused a huge spike in players too, having risen from barely nothing to over 2,000 recurring players in just a few days, though a discount that occurred at the same time may have helped a bit.
Of course, that level of popularity was always going to bring the wrong kind of attention to the...