In the leadup to its announcement, it was heavily suggested Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 would be a huge expansion for Modern Warfare 2. That didn't turn out to be the case as Activision is selling the FPS as its own standalone PS5, PS4 title, but there is one situation where the game quite literally is a DLC add-on: its Trophies. It's been spotted by Powerpyx that the Modern Warfare 3 Trophy list doesn't get its own listing on your PS5 Profile; rather, it's been categorised as DLC for Modern Warfare 2.
The PS4 version of Modern Warfare 3 does have its own listing and a Platinum Trophy to earn, but the PS5 version lives under Modern Warfare 2, and therefore requires you to own and finish a completely different game if you want to obtain 100 per cent completion on your PS5 Profile. As well as reaching level 55 in multiplayer, you will need to complete a few challenges in the new open world Zombies mode and perform specific feats in single player missions.
It's pretty unprecedented for a AAA $70 game of this nature to ship without a Platinum Trophy, with only a select couple of indie titles making it to market without the coveted gong. One reason this has happened may relate to the way Call of Duty games are accessed via the Call of Duty HQ app. For a few years now, the likes of Warzone 2, Modern Warfare 2, Vanguard, and Black Ops Cold War have all fallen under the same launcher, meaning you can switch between them all from a single menu.
In practice, this is more of a hassle than it needs to be, but it's designed to create one cohesive destination for all things Call of Duty. This single hub may now be replicated in the Trophy listings, and Modern Warfare 2 has been chosen as the lead name for what everything henceforth falls under. The thing is, though, collections of multiple games have been getting around this issue for years now.
The Mass Effect Legendary Edition was able to be broken off into individual Trophy lists for each of the three games, and while the recent Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection handled it very clumsily, it too gave each PS1 and PS3 title a Platinum Trophy separately. There is a way around this problem, but it appears Activision hasn't utilised it. If you really do need the Platinum Trophy in Modern Warfare 3 — named A Soldier's Purpose — it's the PS4 version for you.
[source twitter.com]
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I mean, why try anymore if they obviously don’t have to…? 🤷🏾♂️
In a year with so many bangers I just do not understand spending $70 on essentially an expansion of a game that came out a year ago
But but but Bungie though lol 😂.
Do many people have room for a load of CODs to be installed at once? Wouldn't all those games listed swallow up the whole of a base PS5 SSD?
Basically just a lazy attitude from devs / activison
You should be ashamed if you pay full price for this.
Wow this is so half-arsed it's almost impressive
Glad I don't care.
You should be ashamed if you still get excited about the 500th rehash of duty in 2023
@Hundred_Hand_Slap isn’t it
@nomither6 eh, people like what they like. I’ve never liked COD but more power to those who do.
Big Ouch. Imagine paying 70$ for a DLC
The cod single player campaigns are so bad now that it’s not worth it even if it did have a easy plattie
I don't think im ever going to return to playing COD at this point. This is the one franchise I want to see die but it's too big to fail at this point. Sadly the one shooter I was really into has me so pessimistic about it(Battlefield). Hopefully The Finals and Helldivers 2 can really bring me back. I dunno if either will have a huge success although The Finals is well received at least for the beta but you know how all that could change quickly.
@AhmadSumadi yeah i know, i just can’t help it . :/
The Disrespect! they couldn't even be bothered with the trophies. Wow. A new low.
I never saw any reason to stick around with CoD after the first Black Ops, that's when the franchise peaked and it's been a rocky decline since from what I've seen. I do get the appeal of the MP, but then just play warzone or mobile. Whoever purchases this cannot be helped anyways.
Another reason to not buy this.
People be buying this at full price aswell 😂
It's also super annoying because the icon for MW2 shows the cover art for MW3 even though it's still just MW2 in my library. I'm not buying MW3 so why does it look like I have MW3 when all I have is MW2!? 😵💫
Maybe they can rectify the ps5 with it being an issue and somehow put it into a seperate list unless that is to late to change it now
Not to take away the heat from Activision for this decision, but how did Sony allow it either? Shouldn’t there be a uniform trophy policy — and even if there isn’t a platinum, shouldn’t a standalone game be listed on its own and not as DLC?
@-Sigma- totally feel you. Battlefield seems like a lost cause, and I don't know how much work Embark can do on The Finals before its supposed end of year release date but I can see it growing stale pretty quickly with the current content it has.
Helldivers do be looking amazing though goddamn
Well that’s strange. I thought it was a requirement that games had platinum’s based on certain factors?. I may be wrong
This is kinda crazy to be honest. Who signed off on this?
@AFCC I redeemed some of my ps stars points and I pre-ordered it for ~ 15 USD (my currency is HUF). I know it sounds strange but I actually like playing cod titles. I know it's the same thing every year but I find them fun. Save my soul.
As long as cod keeps selling well every year the laziness and greed will continue, people need to stop buying the game.
Ah, ok. Definitely not buying it then. They decided it's not its own game, why should I pay top dollar for it?
Disgusting way to tell you this is just the same game over and over again.
@EvenStephen7 because the owner makes the decision??? You really want to talk about sony for something they don't have reason to refuse? There wouldn't be any difference between a dlc and a game without platinum why would they be against it LOL.
What's worrying is the amount of people buying the same game every year. People are buying a brand at this point. It's like the Apple of the gaming world, although there's better products out there, people would rather buy a name than what it offers.
@GymratAmarillo I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, but it’s a walled garden platform. Sony already makes universal rules across the board on trophies, how they’re implemented, and how games are listed (this is why you don’t see a game offering 30 platinums for pressing start and DLC fitting under the base game/contributing to overall trophy completion rates). They created the reward system that all games are required to use.
It seems oddly against their own strict policies to let standalone, $70 AAA games get listed as DLC when they’re not. Why wouldn’t they have an issue with something dismantling the rules they implement for everyone else?
No it’s a feature, samtalk, funky time, I mean they’ll probably give you an option later to pay extra for this.
I suspect that the PS4 platinum trophy name is misspelled. In the article:
A Solider's Purpose
Should be:
A Soldier's Purpose
@PixelDragon right there with ya buddy👍🏻👍🏻
$70 for this is a joke.
It just looks like a downgrade.
I never buy CoD for full price, but there are a lot of judgemental people in here. Like why do you have to feel guilty about buying a video game?
This mindset of "Oh you're hurting everyone by supporting trash" is not helping anything.
Didn't stop people from buying "trash" in any other industry, not gonna stop it here. You're not gonna stop playing video games either, just like you're not gonna stop watching TV shows or watching movies...
Mazlow's Heirarchy of Needs at work here.
As for not having a platinum... That is weird. Super weird.
The sad this you can feel the lack of innovation and the sheer boredom of the Devs who 'create' CoD nowadays.
Now down to effectively DLC of reissues of previous maps for MP, masked as the new game.
Boooooooooooring.
So is that why the game takes up so much space ? Mw2 plus dlc ,anyone own mw2 ,How big is the game?
I really do not understand why a ps4 game costs 70 bucks.
@EvenStephen7 There's no rule that every game must offer a platinum trophy, here's some of the bigger games that don't have platinum trophies either.
https://gamerant.com/console-games-without-platinum-achievements/#ratchet-amp-clank-future-quest-for-booty
Also the game publishers set the prices, not Sony. I can make a game that's just naughts and crosses and charge £100 for it, along as it passes the quality check and age rating then there no grounds for Sony to say no to me putting it on the store, I mean just looking through the store I sometimes see games that are just so cheap and shovel ware yet cost way more than they should.
@UltimateOtaku91 Yea I know, I’m not talking about that, I’m saying it’s weird to list a standalone game as DLC (which is both odd for cataloguing and can impact a base game’s trophy completion rate).
@NinjaNicky well.. technically almost every multiplayer fps is "the same game" with different settings and graphical styles. You shoot a gun/bow or swing a sword/hammer/bat/ect. As @Constable_What said, no one should feel ashamed because buying a game they like. I'm not buying a brand, I tried many fps along the way but right now if it comes to multiplayer I only play COD (the mw series in particular). I'm not liking the brand, I'm liking the gameplay, the mil-sim feel they created.
Activision/Blizzard fail.
Multiplayer days are behind me. So many single player games to play and with xbox buying Activision, just less of a reason to support these games moving forward. Would rather put time and money elsewhere
Meanwhile GT7 releases yet another dlc for free. That must be about 20 free dlc by now since it released and that's just GT7 alone
OK, that’s just stupid.
Well, I dont have any COD plats, never could complete a campaign on veteran but I know this news will be damming for a lot of people, seems a bit half ar***
Now can we please stop getting cod for ps plus after a year?
@matekomlosi but WM3 is the same as MW2. They could have just added the maps to MW2 and it'll make no difference. They need to do something bigger like fully destructive maps (because battlefield screwed up and made no effort for destruction), bring back gore like World At War or something. COD campaigns are brilliant, I can't fault the single player and the multiplayer is fun for the first month or two but it gets stale quickly. I just wish they'd release a new game every 3 years rather than every year.
@Enigk Yeah, I thought the same. How is this a good practice? I for one can't have multiple installs of these games.
@get2sammyb Could this be due to how the game is configured through a main launcher COD HQ, and Sony won't allow games within that to have separate Platinum?
Regardless I got a little excited at the title, I thought we were getting COD MW3 remastered. Still irks me they remastered 1&2 but not 3.
@NinjaNicky "They could have just added the maps to MW2" with that part I agree. They shouldn't have reworked the whole thing and released a separate game named MW3. But you have to understand that creating dozens of new maps, modelling new guns and operators is costs HUGE amount of money. Not to mention a new campaign, including the actors salary (even if it just 7-8 hours long). One of my friends is working as a 3D artist here in Hungary. The studio he's working at was involved creating assests for Vanguard. I'm a software developer myself (web and android, not games tho). We had countless chats about making a videogame. It's hard and heavily time consuming.
I guess they renamed the DLC to MW3 for this exact reason. They invested millions making it but for a "DLC" they can't charge $70. If they do so, people would rage: "$70 for a DLC?!?! Kidding me?!?". Personally I would understand this pricetag since I know how much work has been done but 90% of the players wouldn't.
As for the destructive maps... well, imagine an average COD map leveled to the ground by killstreaks, RPGs and frags. They are just too small. Players would see each other from spawn points after 2-3 minutes.
@matekomlosi ok, maybe not fully destructive maps then, but a few buildings etc. I remember the old Battlefield games and knocking down a giant satellite, a sky scraper and smashing a dam to flood a town and now, in BF2042, you can't even shoot lightbulbs and you don't even leave bullet holes in the snow. I guess I just miss proper online action games. It seems that BF has given up trying and COD is mostly corner huggers just waiting for someone to run in front of them. Even destructible walls like R6 Siege so you can change tactics etc by changing the way you attack.
@NinjaNicky yeah, destructible walls would be good but if you can destroy a wall with an LMG or a frag then a cruise missle should absolutely destroy the entire building because you know.. umm.. yeah.. it can. In my opinion destroyable enviromental assets can only be implemented if the fight is takint place inside a bulding only or if killstreaks are completly removed.
It was weird in Vangurad that I could shoot a door to pieces with a sidearm but my guided bomb didn't even scratch the rooftop.
I stopped playing COD at the end of MW2 on PS3 I did play the remaster on PS4 when it came to PS Plus years ago but I haven't had a sub for years. Though I am now collecting PS3 games and just got COD Black ops 1 and Ghosts for £1 for both on PS3 the opened up Ghosts and MW 1 disc on PS3 fell out the manual so pretty happy to play the campaigns as I've never played BO1 or Ghosts
@AhmadSumadi For me its weird they have different trophy lists it's almost like they want to tank this game on PS5. It looks lazy and the reviews destroy it. Let's hope it bombs if it's that bad.
I don't own a COD on PS5 yet the last one i played is the MW 2019 I really liked the story on that one. I think Farah was the highlight of the game. I loved to see the story not completely America centered.
@matekomlosi One thing you missed is that most maps are reused. And the environments came from the Warfare maps the story is also quite bareboned.
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