[오늘의 스팀] Review of Modern Warfare 3, the worst in the series and even worse – Game Mecca

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 2023 (hereinafter referred to as Modern Warfare 3), which was officially released on the 10th, has not been able to turn around its evaluation even in the second week of release. Rather, the evaluation is worse than when it was released, and the number of evaluations is rapidly decreasing, destroying the value of the name. Some are even evaluating it as the worst Call of Duty.

As of the 23rd, the overall evaluation of Modern Warfare 3 is ‘generally negative (27% positive)’ with 4,709 reviews. The positive evaluation rate was 29% until the second day of release, when there were many reviews from those who had experienced it in early access, but the number of negative reviews increased further after that. The main cause of criticism is the previously mentioned game quality, volume, and stability issues, but it is clearly a big problem that negative reviews from those with a high number of play hours are continuing along with criticism of the game not improving over time.

Meanwhile, controversy over pay-to-win (P2W) for some skins that come out every now and then arose again. The so-called ‘Groot Skin’, which was given as a reward for the previous game, Modern Warfare 2’s Halloween Battle Pass, was buried in the background in some sections of Modern Warfare 3, reducing its visibility to the point where it was barely visible. This was only deactivated on the 20th (local time), after many people experienced inconvenience or benefit due to it. In some quarters, the continued occurrence of these P2W skin problems is raising criticism as to whether the intention is to implicitly encourage the purchase of paid skins.

Reflecting the worsening evaluation, sales of the Call of Duty series are not as good as before. As of 4 p.m. on the 23rd, the Call of Duty franchise ranked 4th in the world’s best-selling products. The previous game, Modern Warfare 2, remained firmly in first place in sales even in the second week of its release, but this time it fell quickly, losing out to Lethal Company, Cyberpunk 2077, and Red Dead Redemption 2, which were evaluated as masterpieces of indie games. In particular, unlike last year, as the Call of Duty franchise was integrated in the Steam menu, the sales volume announcement also showed that Modern Warfare 3 was tied to the Call of Duty series and was released at once. Considering this, sales of Modern Warfare 3 alone are expected to be lower than this. do.

In terms of the maximum number of concurrent users per day, Battlefield 5 ranked in the top 20 for the first time in a long time thanks to discount sales. During the fall sale period, the Battlefield series was heavily discounted, and among them, the largest number of people flocked to Battlefield 5, which was sold for 4,400 won in Korea with a 92% discount. The maximum number of concurrent users per day, which was around 14,000 before the discount started, immediately rose to 52,264. It is a bonus to say that it is the best of the Battlefield trilogies (1, 5, 2042) that were recently released and received poor reviews.