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A generous price drop has seen Call of Duty: Modern Warfare break its own Steam concurrent record over the weekend, hitting an all-new high of 61,667 peak players and making it more popular than last year’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on Valve’s PC platform.
Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare successfully rebooted the Call of Duty series, and was followed by the enormously popular battle royale, Warzone, which benfited from stay-at-home gaming amid the pandemic.
While the 2019 FPS usually retails for $59.99, it’s currently available for just $5.99 (£4.99 in the UK or €5.99 in select European countries) courtesy of Steam’s Spring Sale — likely the lowest price it’s ever been on Valve’s digital storefront.
Even when it first debuted on Steam, Modern Warfare only enjoyed modest success, reaching a peak of just 3,500 players on launch day. Up until Friday’s discounted price, even that small player base had essentially fallen away, with only a couple of hundred players online at any one time.
Now, Modern Warfare isn’t just the most-played Call of Duty game on Steam, but it’s enjoying its biggest numbers on Valve’s platform ever, according to SteamDB. And while it’s now nearly seven years old, fans
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