Activision is finally doing something about Call of Duty’s giant downloads

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Activision is finally doing something about Call of Duty’s giant downloads
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Activision is making some changes so that Call of Duty titles don’t take up as much space on your hard drive.

Call of Duty games have famously giant file sizes, but ahead of the October 25th launch of Black Ops 6, Activision is going to make some changes so that Call of Duty titles don’t take up as much space on your hard drive — including separating Warzone from the default download for the annual games. The default separation of Warzone is happening soon: on August 21st, alongside the launch of Season 5 Reloaded.

In mid-October, Activision plans to introduce a new user interface for browsing your Call of Duty games, too. But to prepare for these changes, Activision says you’re going to have to download a big update as part of the Season 5 rollout that will reorganize game files and add new tech “to prep the way for the full player interface.” After that update is done, Activision says that Call of Duty’s footprint will go down because of the “file optimizations.

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