Update []: In a nice turn of events for Trophy enthusiasts, it appears the decision to decouple Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from the Call of Duty HQ launcher actually has resulted in it receiving a Platinum Trophy.
The move to make the FPS a standalone download happened within the last few hours, and PSN Profiles has picked up a new Trophy list for Modern Warfare 3, including a Platinum Trophy.
Original Story: The heavily criticised Call of Duty HQ app should become slightly more manageable for PS5, PS4 players later today, as Activision has announced it’s removing Modern Warfare 2 and Modern Warfare 3 from the launcher.
From 5pm BST / 9am PT on 29th July, the two titles will become separate, standalone downloads. This means any data relating to them will be taken out of Call of Duty HQ, and they shouldn’t appear on the game select screen within the app anymore.
Any old content relating to game modes from the two FPS entries within Call of Duty HQ shall disappear completely on 7th August, but content from the two games in Warzone won’t be affected. This is all designed to free up space, since the app can balloon to upwards of 200GB depending on what pieces of content you have downloaded.
Last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will remain part of the series’ launcher, and Black Ops 7 is still planned to be part of it too when it launches later this year — this move from Activision isn’t part of a decision to end the application entirely. Black Ops 7 doesn’t have a confirmed release date yet, but it is expected to compete with Battlefield 6 this Holiday, which is heavily rumoured to be out for PS5 on 10th October.
The Call of Duty HQ app is also the reason why new instalments in the franchise haven’t had their own Platinum Trophy since 2022. Due too all the games funnelling into the same launcher, the Trophy lists have done the same under the Modern Warfare 2 Trophy listing, so follow-up titles have been treated as add-ons to that original Trophy list. This is not expected to change despite Modern Warfare 3 now being a standalone game.
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