Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Launch Day Server Issues

Keshav Bhat

UPDATE – October 24 at 11:45PM ET: Modern Warfare Servers are now stable and starting to go online for everyone.

Please check again in-game.


UPDATE: The servers are slowly starting to come back online. Users are able to get on, but many are still experiencing issues. Stay tuned.


As is always the case with a big launch of Call of Duty, there’s bound to be some server issues as everyone jumps on at the same time.

Players are reporting “Connection Failed” status while attempting to log in to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. There’s also reports of a server queue in order to get into the game.

As the game goes live worldwide now, you may have to wait a bit attempting to join the servers and get online.

Activision Support has confirmed they are investigating:

Many users are seeing this message while attempting to get online in Modern Warfare:

We’re monitoring and will keep you updated as Infinity Ward shares updates on server status.