If you go to Amsterdam, you can sleep at the Conservatorium Hotel. but if you play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, you can compete against other players there. At least you could.
During early testing before launch, the latest installment in the shooter series featured the “Breenbergh Hotel” map. It allowed the players to play in the five-star hotel in the Dutch capital. But when the final version of the game was released on October 28, the location was gone.
An unwanted involvement
It seems that this integration was not appreciated in the shooter. “We have noted that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably the setting for the new obligations”, explained the hotel manager, Roy Tomassen, to the national newspaper Volkskrant, glimpsed the specialized site PCGamer.
The elimination of the hotel within the game is not trivial. According to the Dutch newspaper, those responsible for the place are still thinking about what to do next. According to the wording used, legal action would not be ruled out, says PCGamer.
A particularly recognizable place
In the game, the building serves as the base for a multiplayer map where players compete online. The hotel is depicted there with a hole in its facade from which black smoke is coming out, suggesting a missile attack. The map allows players to enter the hotel to kill each other.
The hotel is particularly recognizable as the Infinity Ward development teams used photogrammetry to model their game’s sets, especially in Amsterdam. If the result makes it one of the most realistic shooting games ever created, it paves the way for legal punishment. Because in Europe as in the United States, architecture is subject to copyright.
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Source: BFM TV
