The requirement to submit a phone number to play competitive matches is common in many other modern multiplayer video games, such as CS: GO. This is because every player will need to link their mobile phone numbers to their Steam accounts. RELATED: Vigor Is Free to Play This Weekend On Xbox One, Enjoy A Norway Based Survival GameĪccording to CharlieIntel, every player must link their Activision ID codes to their Steam accounts to play Modern Warfare 2 on the platform. Instead, modern Warfare 2’s Steam release won’t use at all but Activision ID, according to CharlieIntel. This information was later confirmed early on, but some people still thought, Activision’s top gaming platform, would somehow factor in as well.Īccording to the most recent information, there is no longer a chance that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would get a scaled-down launcher version of that will function with Steam, much like EA’s Origin.

Most Activision Blizzard and Microsoft fans had previously anticipated that their new flagship game releases would ultimately make their way to Steam once Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard was made public, with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 being the ideal candidate to establish the precedent.

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