"Activision will be hosting a Free Weekend for Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3! Pre-load the game now and be ready to play when the free weekend starts on Thursday, February 16th at 10am Pacific Time.

Click here (steam://install/42690) to start pre-loading, or visit www.steamgames.com/about to install Steam.

The Free Weekend of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 will let you play the entire multiplayer portion of the base game."


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eww

12 years ago
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Call of Duty is the most hardcore casual game around. If it's free, might as well play it for a bit to take a break.

12 years ago
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most hardcore casual game

12 years ago
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Damnit, you beat me to it!

12 years ago
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I'm hardcore and I'm casual and I'm a waste of oxygen

12 years ago
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LOL....

12 years ago
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No, Madden is the most hardcore casual game. Completely impenetrable, and I LIKE football.

12 years ago
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Handegg

12 years ago
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I'm curious how bullshit the story is.. sadly. I'll be downloading it. I'm a terrible man

12 years ago
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"mulitplayer" obivously

12 years ago
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Right I forgot about that. Oh well

12 years ago
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slighty less of a terrible man now :)
But yeah throwing the singleplayer for free wouldn't make Actimilking no moneys

12 years ago
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Downloading the game ! 14 gb -_-

12 years ago
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and sp is locked trololol :S

12 years ago
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Wouldn't play it if they payed me, personally.

12 years ago
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not gonna touch it with an 8-foot pole

12 years ago
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not gonna touch it with a 9.5-foot pole

12 years ago
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Not gonna touch it with a ten meter cattle prod.

12 years ago
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just checked, and it's 14 gigs for the MP alone, is activision out of their mind ?

12 years ago
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The SP files are included in the MP download but in order to play SP, you just need is the SP launcher. This is the case when you own the game on your account. With the free weekend, they'll just disable the SP launcher.

12 years ago
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I love how everyone's just jumping on the anti-COD bandwagon, without actually being grateful for a free game being available for a weekend. No one's forcing you to play it.

12 years ago
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not everyone is anti COD, it's fun to play run and gun for a bit,

but mw3 price is too high, and no dedicated server, only P2P.

12 years ago
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MW3 does have dedicated servers on the PC

12 years ago
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Only unranked ones, as far as I know - you can only level up and unlock stuff on p2p.

12 years ago
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Thank you based Gaben for giving us this 2 day promo for us poor, poor gamers who like to bend over and take marketing gimmicks up our colon. Forgive us for our sins of ungratefulness towards thy humble attempts at pushing rehashed poorly ported $60 AAA titles down our weakling neckbeard throats.

Please, have all of my funds I have earned from exchanging my labor throughout the days as an offering and as a gesture of gratefulness. We clearly owe you so much, oh all mighty videogame developers.

12 years ago
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My "eww" is at the game. Not the fact it's free for the weekend or 'taking up' a free weekend spot or anything like that. :)

12 years ago
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Why would you be grateful for something that takes out all creativity from the game industry? Eating your own feces is free as well.

12 years ago
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Games that I do not enjoy are popular, therefore they are ruining all of gaming.

12 years ago
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Really, be more ignorant please. I enjoyed CoD2 and CoD4, now they're just milking it and because so many people are stupid enough to keep buying this crap publishers think that it's okay to make more of the same waste. Yeah, why take risks and make something new or creative when people like you just pay full retail price for a new number in the title and few map packs. But you're a prodigy on deducting these things I experienced from your last post, so I don't need to enlighten your vision I assume.

12 years ago
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The 'general public' endorsing something has never been a sign of quality. In any medium.

12 years ago
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lolol omg cod sux amirite guiz?

how dare tehy gib me option to dl free game

12 years ago
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Eh, I'll play. I used to ignore free weekends due to my crap PC, but ever since I picked up a new rig, I've been playing whatever I can get my hands on.

12 years ago
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Please note because it's a free weekend, you will not be able to join giveaways with MW3 "on" your account until the F2P weekend is over. Then sync your account, if it synced over the weekend, to be able to enter giveaways.

12 years ago
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:(

12 years ago
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doesnt everyone own COD 4 or MW2? Why would you ever waste your time on the same game?

12 years ago
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nope, did not own them, and yup mw3 is only mw1 with different maps.

12 years ago
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call of duty 2 big red one (or any of the original) was the best

12 years ago
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I hope EA sees this and says "We should make a BF3 Free weekend!!"

12 years ago
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Meanwhile, on the Italian Origin store...

12 years ago
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$10 at russian store. trololololo

12 years ago
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Difference being that the Italian copy can be activated wordlwide without VPNs and language packs. =D

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I jumped OFF the anti-COD bandwagon.

  1. It's bad in terms of design.
  2. It's bad in terms of originality and innovation.
  3. It's bad in terms of Graphics.
  4. It's simple. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
  5. Not realistic. No game is THAT realistic but compared to other military FPS games COD is arguably the least realistic.

But to me, it's FUN. So i forget all it's faults. Sure it's not as technically AMAZING as Battlefield 3 is, and nowhere near as tactical/teamwork oriented, but it's just as FUN.

Plus, not all of us have 100s of friends to play with, so we usually play public games. And playing a tactical teamwork game like BF3 with randoms is usually not fun, because it's luck of the draw with regards to what type of team you will get. Sometimes all you will get is a mix of people who want to play teamwork and people who don't, and you need everyone you can.

I NEVER thought I'd see the day where I'd defend COD, but damn it happened!

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Having played on both sides of the COD/BF argument, I completely agree with you. Call of Duty, while it has all the flaws that you point out, is fun. It wouldn't be a worldwide, ridiculously-fast-selling phenomenon if it wasn't.

Ultimately, though, I found it was the same kind of fun repeatedly, whereas the BF series' slightly more strategy oriented play (your point about having friends and a community is important - public play usually turns out to be sub-par compared to COD) is less repetitious in the long term.

12 years ago
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I'm just curious, but where do you download it? I can't find it on the game itself.

12 years ago
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Click on the source

12 years ago
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My bad, I didn't notice that Markdown didn't hyperlink that Steam command. :\
It should just be enough to paste this -> steam://install/42690 <- in your browser's URL bar (doesn't work with Google Chrome). If that doesn't work, go here and click on "Click here to start pre-loading".

12 years ago
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Time to own a fresh round of noobs!

12 years ago
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Mwahaha

12 years ago
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I'd never buy it for myself, but I do love playing it, on PS3 (friend's) so I can only assume how much different it is on PC.

Needless to say I'm installing it now.

12 years ago
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oh no, theres gonna be loads of hackers....=(

12 years ago
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yes, its going to be great. so much griefing is going to happen, its going to be hilarious :D

12 years ago
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I could care less.

12 years ago
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Anyways, apparently they didn't sell to much. MW2 free weekends were way later then this one right?

12 years ago
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i would play it if my machine was cappable to run it. sadly - it's not ; /
with a Radeon x550 graphic card , a Pentium IV processor , 2gb ram and no extra moeny in mah pocket for a new pc - it suck to be me...

12 years ago
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Synced my account now so I can still enter giveaways when it's free weekend/sale :)

12 years ago
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COD gets undeserved HATE. I know its not the most innovative one, but it is damn FUN. Never ever an FPS game has captured the thrill of an ARCADE shooter like COD does. I played HALO REACH, its slow and has limited class choices, plus maps more smaller then COD. Killzone 3 is nothing but a COD clone with darker graphics. Battlefield 3 is an exception, but it is closed to a simulation type game which requires attention and constant effort which is not always fun.

COD is a great game, and will always be because it knows what it is doing and it is doing just great.

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All these games you mentioned don't really deserve to be called a FPS. There is not a single console 'FPS' that is well-made and skillful, none, zero, zilch, nada. Any shooter that autoaims the gun for you is a plague on modern gaming and should be abolished in the holy fire in the name of the Emperor.

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Kinda like Farmville. Lots of people think it's fun, and Farmville knows what it's doing. It's tricking the player using metrics and well timed rewards to ensure that they keep playing. Also any criticism of it is seen as an attack or 'HATE'.

Whenever someone uses the term 'hater', to me that just signifies that they are brainwashed.

12 years ago
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only weekend :( :p

12 years ago
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Closed 12 years ago by Virzeth.