Trendy Warfare 2 has arrived and outdoors of a handful of technical points, it has had a comparatively easy launch. Some vital options are lacking however these points ought to be fixable with a patch or two. Nevertheless, what continues to confuse gamers is that the Museum map from the beta is nowhere to be seen in Trendy Warfare 2.
Within the open beta that ran round a month in the past, there have been six maps for gamers to check out. 5 of those are current within the full launch as anticipated, however not all of them made the reduce. Final Friday, we seen the Valderas Museum was not playable in Trendy Warfare 2. It isn’t in public matches, and it will possibly’t be chosen in non-public matches both.
An official cause as to why Valderas Museum was reduce nonetheless hasn’t been given. Nevertheless, we have now an concept based mostly on how among the different maps in Trendy Warfare 2 have been dealt with. The rationale that the Museum map isn’t in Trendy Warfare 2 at launch is probably going a authorized downside. Extra particularly, a copyright situation between Activision and the Getty Museum.
The Getty Museum is positioned in Los Angeles, and it hosts quite a lot of pre-Twentieth-century European artwork. It was additionally the inspiration for the Valderas Museum map, with the Name of Obligation map sharing a number of similarities. These similarities could have prompted the Getty Museum to take authorized motion. It’s thought that Activision encountered an analogous situation with Crown Raceway (formally often called the Grand Prix) resulting from it being too just like the Marina Bay Grand Prix circuit in Singapore.
Small map pool
With the Museum map faraway from Trendy Warfare 2, the map pool isn’t preferrred. Whereas Crown Raceway appears to be again within the sport, if the Museum map continues to be unplayable, there’ll solely be 10 6v6 maps left. For comparability, most Name of Obligation video games have round 12 maps at launch, with the likes of Vanguard having as many as 16.
NEWS: The ‘Museum’ map is probably not returning to #ModernWarfareII.
Activision wasn’t given permission to make use of the IRL location often called ‘Getty Museum’, in order that they took authorized motion.
It’s a disgrace as a result of it was a fairly good map.
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