Today we're saying goodbye to sm2... now I just want to make this as clear as possible before we
jump into this video that this is not happening because the developers of sm2 have decided to
just stop making the project or that they're killing the project whatever it might be this
was not their decision this decision was done by Activision one of the developers that was working
on the sm2 project received a cease and desist order from Activision which means that they had
to stop the operations for sm2 otherwise they'd be taken to court and sued by Activision I want
to make that point as clear as possible because I've seen some tweets from people who are covering
this kind of information and it just doesn't really sit right with me I really don't want
there to be any confusion at all the creators of sm2 have not decided to stop working on the
project or stop making sm-2 they were forced to by Activision and I really do not see the
creators of sm2 going to court against Activision maybe trying to claim like fair use or something
for the project because they'd be going up against [ __ ] Activision a multi-billion dollar company
with more lawyers than you can count on your hands and toes so yeah I don't think that's gonna happen
Activision also recently said and cease and desist orders to people who are making like creative maps
on fortnite as well but what is very different is that those people on fortnite have a chance
to actually profit off of those maps and those servers and stuff whereas sn2 was a non-profit
project and I'm pretty sure the reason that Activision is doing this is because they can Call
of Duty is their intellectual property they own the assets and at the end of the day they can make
these decisions and they can make these calls if they want to and while I'm sure to some capacity
the sm2 team knew this before they even started working on this project it's still two years of
work two years of essentially volunteer work for trying to make the best possible project that they
could for the Cod Community thanks to Activision unfortunately sn2 is now dead now another thing
that I would like to make clear before we dive more into this is actually explaining what sn2
is because some people actually don't even know what this project was it is not a remake of the
original Modern Warfare 2. It's not like a remaster of Call of Duty but it's actually
closer to Call of Duty online the team behind sm2 wanted to create essentially a Call of Duty game
that is a mashup of all the best features from previous Call of Duty games that includes the
guns the the maps the game modes and it was also going to have its own progression system which
is going to make it very different from the other modded clients like xlaps and plutonium where you
don't necessarily have to earn your progression you don't have to earn all of your stuff all over
again you can use unlock all commands and just get everything immediately so that way you can just
get back on those old games and enjoy them sm2 was going to be a completely different experience
where you would you know want to actually get on and grind and play this game every day and it's
pretty safe to say that a lot of people were really looking forward to this project because
it was not only going to be similar to cut online because they were going to basically take the best
Maps guns and game modes and put it into one thing but sm2 is also going to have its own progression
so you know you'd have to get on you'd have to play you'd have to earn XP and actually level
up and get the guns get the attachment stuff like that that alone is what made it very unique from
xlabs and plutonium because I mean those clients really serve the purpose of wanting to get back
on have everything unlocked so you could access everything and you could just relive The Nostalgia
you know but sm2 is really going to be its own game that stands on its own two feet but obviously
all of this leaves us with one big question why did Activision decide to do a cease and desist and
take down sm-2 again I want to make this as clear as I possibly can so no one misconstrues that no
one gets confused Activision gets sent to cease and desist for basically any reason they want to
so as far as it goes for the reason why sm2 is shut down it's because of Activision it doesn't
really matter why it's happening because the fact of the matter is that they sense it and obviously
the team is not going to fight it because again Activision is a multi-billion dollar company going
up against a group of people like me like us who just play Call of Duty you have to understand man
the people who worked on sm2 they're not lawyers they're just people who want to enjoy and play
Call of Duty they don't have some kind of immense legal team the way that Activision does so as far
as it goes for why the sm-2 devs were sent a cease and desist letter from Activision we
can only speculate and I don't really know if I want to do that because that kind of [ __ ] can
just kind of lead into rumors and stuff like that and I don't really want to go into that
kind of territory the sm2 project being shut down by Activision is obviously terrible news
but I've also seen some people have some really bad takes and they've taken this into all kinds
of weird directions so honestly I really don't want to speculate on the situation and then lead
people astray with like different observations and different ideas of what's potentially going
on just for some perspective imagine that you're a small development team that has been working for
over two years on a project that has gone unpaid you're not being paid by anyone to do this you're
purely just volunteering your time trying to make the best projects that you possibly can
for your community and then all of a sudden you get a cease and desist order from a multi-billion
dollar company that's going to shut everything down and obviously since you're a small team that
doesn't have the money or the resources to fight the cease and desist order you have to shut down
your operations and on top of that as well you have to drop the bad news on the community that
the game is being shut down by Activision well I don't know if it's just Twitter man but I've seen
people actually getting mad at the developers of sm2 because the cease and desist order from
Activision has shut the game down so now we've got some super entitled people that are mad at
the creators of sm2 because they're not getting their game instead of getting mad at Activision
because they're the ones that caused all of this in the first place I swear man these are going to
be the same people that buy the CDL Champs pack that has just been released and added to Modern
Warfare 2. which by the way absolute Mega douche of a skin if you buy this you're a terrible person
there's just something that makes me like so mad about the fact that Activision is shutting down
basically one of the best things to happen to call engine obviously they're not the ones that are
behind it which is probably why they're so upset about it and then they release the CDL Champs pack
the day after look at us we're the rich Kings we've got all the money you can't do anything
I got I gotta breathe man I gotta calm down so now that Activision has crushed the hopes and
dreams of the sn2 team what are they gonna do now well I've talked to some of the sm2 teams
since all this stuff has happened and obviously I'm not going to share private conversations and
stuff like that but as far as I can tell I have no clue what they're going to be doing now I would
imagine they're probably soaking their keyboards into tears because two years of their life has
just gone down the drain I swear man I'm like trying to say combo recording this but it's just
it's so infuriating I would probably imagine that after all of this has gone down they're
probably gonna take some well-deserved time off I really can't imagine that they would want to
try to jump right back into developing some kind of other project because now that Activision has
sent a cease and desist order to them they've clearly got their eyes on them and it's not
the kind of eyes you want watching you and as far as I can tell Activision looks at the sm2 project
and they're not impressed by it they don't want to hire the devs they don't want to give them a
job and let them actually create something like this no they needed to kill it before we could
even have a chance to play it but yeah man I don't need to drag out this video any longer
than it already has been I think this just kind of solidifies the fact that Activision truly is
the Call of Duty killer like if they want to kill Call of Duty they clearly can do it
sm2 is going to be like one of the best projects we've ever seen and it's dead thanks to them but
even though this is obviously some pretty shitty news I really do hope you guys have an amazing
rest of your day thank you guys very much for watching this video I'll see you guys later