Call Of Duty 2023 is just a DLC expansion for Modern Warfare 2 claim sources

metro.co.uk:

Rumours continue to insist there’ll be no Call Of Duty sequel next year, but allegedly there will be a major paid-for expansion instead.

For a long time now, the rumour has been that there will be no new Call Of Duty in 2023, not because of the Microsoft acquisition but as continued fallout from the failure of Vanguard and Activision’s recognition that the series needs time to reset itself.

As sensible as that sounds Activision has denied those plans, although its last comment on the issue was ambiguous enough that it’s hard to tell what they meant. According to the latest rumours though there’s definitely no new game, just new paid-for DLC.

The plan has already been corroborated by two trusted sources and suggests that the DLC will be released in 2023 in a bundle with a ‘greatest hits map pack’ to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Call Of Duty, something that has already been rumoured separately.

There’s no indication of what exactly the expansion will be, but the map pack will apparently include remastered classic maps from the original Modern Warfare 2, from 2009, and other older titles.

The rumours were originally spread by Call Of Duty leaker TheGhostofHope but then backed up by Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier, who was one of those that originally made the suggestion that there’d be no mainline entry in 2023.

He didn’t mention the supposed map pack but suggested that Activision would be selling ‘an expansion or something like that’ next year.

Schreier didn’t claim to know what form the expansion would take but said that it would include ‘campaign stuff too’. So the best guess at the moment is some sort of new story campaign and the map pack to cover the multiplayer side of the game.

It’s unclear when Activision would