The ongoing litigation between Infinity Ward and Activision has revealed a startling and exciting fact, one that’s been brought up before. Call of Duty is taking their multiplayer success to the next level, Modern Warfare 3 will be an FPS MMO.

The leaked legal document that Game Rant has acquired  contains an absurd amount of details about the forthcoming MMO. Due to the rising costs of providing servers for online matchmaking and competition, Activision is literally forcing Infinity Ward to develop a Call of Duty that is consistently online. This way they can charge a monthly subscription on top of their popular DLC packages.

Here’s a list of details that we have pulled from the leaked document:

  • The game’s planned name is Modern Warfare: Online, removing the Call of Duty moniker like they had intended to do with Modern Warfare 2. There will be no offline single player experience, instead you will form squads with other online players and complete assigned missions. Rank and level will provide distinct advantages, forcing players to progress in order to play the majority of the game. A competitive matchmaking system similar to the current Modern warfare will be available at all points in the game, but will be restricted to players of similar level/rank. There will also be massive battles in persistent environments throughout the game. Hundreds of players will battle of objectives, a la World of WarCraft’s open world PvP. Map packs, or something similar, will still be created, only they will be marketed as expansion packs instead.

There’s plenty more in the document, so be sure to check it out the document we have below (click here for a larger version). It seems like the MMO will play a prominent part in the upcoming legal battle. There’s issues of creative freedom, ownership, and more importantly money associated with the game and those issues relate to the recent firings.

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What do you think Ranters? Is this the direction you want Modern Warfare to take? I’m absolutely ecstatic about it!