why is mw2 remastered not on steam?

[Solid Gamer]

Every news say its gonna be unlocked today, but its still not in steam?

[Laptop]

You are aware the last two CoD games only launched the Battle.net client?

[LRB1983]

Originally posted by Laptop:

You are aware the last two CoD games only launched the Battle.net client?

Activision used to claim that they were online only games as an excuse, it seems that now they will be all Activision game, since it's campaign mode what has been remastered.

[Laptop]

Originally posted by LRB1983:

Activision used to claim that they were online only games as an excuse, it seems that now they will be all Activision game, since it's campaign mode what has been remastered.

The remastered Spyro games came to Steam late last year. We could still see MW2 Remastered Campaign come to Steam later on, looking at the videos through it looks similar to the CoD4 Remaster (so they have reused a lot of content there).

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

The reason why MW2R is not available on Steam is because Activision are not willing to pay 30% sales revenue to Valve Corporation which gets expensive to sell games on Steam. Therefore, it's cheaper to sell it on Blizzard/Battle.net exclusive instead. And yes, pre-purchase is now available on Battle.net, though it may take awhile for the website to update for credit/debit card information.
https://us.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2-campaign-remastered

[LRB1983]

Yep, seems Activision are only willing to pay 30% to Sony and Microsoft.
That said they could make available a 30% more expensive on Steam and sell it cheaper on Battlenet if they want, some will still prefer to buy the game on this platform.

[Skine]

theyd make more on steam then bnet

[Laptop]

Originally posted by Skine:

theyd make more on steam then bnet

That's the direction they've chosen to take, EA did it for 8 years (2011 - 2019) and returned to Steam last year (more of their Origin-only games will be arriving on Steam this year).

If Bethesda, EA and Microsoft tried to go exclusive and came back to Steam then Activision and Ubisoft may do also.

[Dynamonic]

Originally posted by Laptop:

Originally posted by Skine:

theyd make more on steam then bnet

That's the direction they've chosen to take, EA did it for 8 years (2011 - 2019) and returned to Steam last year (more of their Origin-only games will be arriving on Steam this year).

If Bethesda, EA and Microsoft tried to go exclusive and came back to Steam then Activision and Ubisoft may do also.

That's right. Metro Exodus encountered strong sales on Steam once it's Epic exclusivity expired too. This shows that a lot of people, including myself are willing to hold out for Steam releases of games.
In this case, as is the case with all titles that don't initially appear on Steam, I'll be sadly missing this one until it does.

[Solid Gamer]

Originally posted by Dynamonic:

Originally posted by Laptop:

That's the direction they've chosen to take, EA did it for 8 years (2011 - 2019) and returned to Steam last year (more of their Origin-only games will be arriving on Steam this year).

If Bethesda, EA and Microsoft tried to go exclusive and came back to Steam then Activision and Ubisoft may do also.

That's right. Metro Exodus encountered strong sales on Steam once it's Epic exclusivity expired too. This shows that a lot of people, including myself are willing to hold out for Steam releases of games.
In this case, as is the case with all titles that don't initially appear on Steam, I'll be sadly missing this one until it does.

Well this is maybe good for me, gotta full hands to do in this year, MW2 can wait.....

[awesome1ru]

why not post it on both to get double the money?

[Cryosis]

Originally posted by awesome1ru:

why not post it on both to get double the money?

Because greed clouds judgement.

[mazewaliztli47]

thanks to the crap battle luancher my blacks ops 4 and modern warfare 2019 crash to desktop instantly; it will be sooo easy if this both games are on steam and not that horrible launcher, the worst launcher ever

[ShaDoW]

Don't give money to Trashvision/Blizzard.

[Prophet]

I would've prefered if i was sold on steam, idk why but it's just better that way all you're games are in one spot.

[Darkwave Dahlia]

Because the dev went fully moronic with the battle.net hugbox.