Microsoft Refunding Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Players

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The common practice with PC games is that pretty much all of them allow players to play together regardless of where they bought their game from. Turns out that this isn’t true for versions bought on the Windows 10 Store and the Steam Store, essentially making the multiplayer portion of the game unplayable for players who bought Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on the Windows Store.

While this exception to the rule was noted in the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare FAQ on Activision’s support page, players can’t really be blamed for expecting a feature that is in pretty much every other PC version of a game. Because most PC players buy their game through Steam (or a different online store that sells Steam keys) the Windows Store version of the game has a way smaller installed user base, making it hard for players to find ongoing matches and making it impossible to play with their friends if they bought the game through Steam.

The funny thing is that this is not a restriction placed upon the game by Microsoft, but rather a restriction put in place by Activision, the game’s publisher. This was confirmed by a Microsoft representative who spoke with Windows Central about this, saying that Microsoft supports “cross-play between devices and platforms for partners who want to enable it.”

Because of the low player base, Microsoft is offering refunds to players who bought the game on the Windows Store. Might be a good idea to take them up on that offer if you want to play with your friends on Steam. Hopefully, Activision reverts this rather odd decision so people can play with their friends without having to jump through a series of rather pointless hoops.

We have previously reached out for more details on the situation regarding the restrictions, but have not at this time received a response. If we learn more, we will update this story.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is out now for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 and includes the remaster of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare if the legacy edition is purchased.



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NursePosted:

Loke The windows store is stupid anyway

Very true! But I guess people who bought it on the windows store is about to get battlefield 1!

LokePosted:

The windows store is stupid anyway

UrfPosted:

Swift
Maj And that's why you don't buy anything from the Windows Store...


This is activisions fault not microsoft's. They did not mention that the buyers could not play with steam players.

I bought Forza Horizon 3 and Gears 4 from the Microsoft store and I am loving them. never had an issue with them.


Except they did. There were literally multiple articles on the subject PRIOR to the game coming out. This falls on the PLAYER for not doing any research on the matter

SwiftPosted:

Maj And that's why you don't buy anything from the Windows Store...


This is activisions fault not microsoft's. They did not mention that the buyers could not play with steam players.

I bought Forza Horizon 3 and Gears 4 from the Microsoft store and I am loving them. never had an issue with them.

MajPosted:

And that's why you don't buy anything from the Windows Store...

GTXPlayerPosted:

Elim8
Two_Faced
Elim8
Barclay Could activision be any worse of a company if they tried? They're literally worse than EA


Infinity Ward made the game. Activision are the publishers.


EA is also a publisher, not really sure why that matters?

Activision does not make games, they only put them on the market. I hate when people blame companies when they absolutly nothing to do with development.


I hate it when people talk a load of it and have no idea what they're bashing on about. You do realise that in this day and age, publishers have much more control over the developer. In fact it's the publisher that divises what is to be done and by when. If that isn't met, the developer is blamed and the publisher is not. The Publisher doesn't just publish the game. They control every piece of the development cycles like an oiled machine. The publishers are the ones killing the games, not the devs. Theres a reason why EA is to blame for the issues with their games, because they oversee all development.

Same goes for Activision. They control the whole COD franchise. The developers just do as they're told. That's the reason why IW will never be a good dev. It's the reason why Destiny was a shambles even though it was still a lot of the Halo dev team.

Elim8Posted:

Two_Faced
Elim8
Barclay Could activision be any worse of a company if they tried? They're literally worse than EA


Infinity Ward made the game. Activision are the publishers.


EA is also a publisher, not really sure why that matters?

Activision does not make games, they only put them on the market. I hate when people blame companies when they absolutly nothing to do with development.

ZydrinPosted:

Damn, that's when you know it is bad.

DeftonesPosted:

NMG_ASTRIX Wait, people actually purchase games from the Windows 10 Store?


I was thinking the same thing.

Two_FacedPosted:

Elim8
Barclay Could activision be any worse of a company if they tried? They're literally worse than EA


Infinity Ward made the game. Activision are the publishers.


EA is also a publisher, not really sure why that matters?


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