Ever since Call of Duty: Warzone launched back in March, it has featured its standard battle royale experience alongside variations of the Plunder game mode. Plunder has proven quite popular with Warzone fans, and so many were understandably upset when Plunder was removed from the game with no prior announcement from Infinity Ward. Now Infinity Ward's Joe Cecot has addressed Plunder being missing from Warzone, offering an explanation as to why that decision was made.
According to Cecot, Call of Duty: Warzone will be bringing Plunder back "soon," so fans shouldn't have to worry about the mode being gone forever. In regards to why Warzone removed Plunder in the first place, evidently it was to allow space for the free multiplayer weekend that's currently available in the game, along with the Warzone Rumble mode. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare free multiplayer weekend should be ending tomorrow, so fans may get Plunder back within a couple of days.
Infinity Ward has been criticized quite a bit for removing popular game modes and features in Warzone and Modern Warfare when introducing new ones. For example, when Warzone added Most Wanted contracts, it did so at the expense of the more popular bounty contracts. Fan backlash was severe enough that Infinity Ward quickly reversed its decision and removed Most Wanted contracts from the game, having just recently added them back with some significant changes and not using them to replace regular bounties.
Considering how much fans have gotten upset over Infinity Ward removing stuff from Modern Warfare and Warzone, it's a bit odd that it keeps happening. Some may recall when Gunfight OSP was added to Modern Warfare in place of regular Gunfight and the backlash that caused, prompting some of the world's popular streamers to even speak out against the decision.
Once Warzone brings Plunder back, here's hoping it stays in the game for good, especially since Warzone Rumble hasn't been all that well-received by the community. In fact, Warzone Rumble seems to be one of the more unpopular Warzone modes that have been introduced to date. Once it goes, it will be interesting to see if Infinity Ward changes it up like it did with the Most Wanted contracts or if it just leaves it out of the game permanently.
Call of Duty: Warzone is out now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.