Amsterdam is 1 of the prettiest parts of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, and besides location to the Breenbergh Hotel multiplayer representation wherever players repeatedly sprout astatine each different successful the main lobby. Now the real-life Dutch edifice the level is based connected has caught upwind of the imitation and criticized its usage successful specified a convulsive game.

“We person taken enactment of the information that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably the country of the caller Call of Duty,” Conservatorium Hotel manager Roy Tomassen told Dutch paper de Volksrant, per PC Gamer. “More generally, we don’t enactment games that look to promote the usage of violence. The crippled successful nary mode reflects our halfway values and we regret our evident and unwanted involvement.”

Housed successful a 19th-century slope gathering other the Stedelijk Museum, the Conservatorium Hotel maintains the grandeur of its original, historical architecture portion sporting modern luxury and amenities, reports manner tract JustLuxe. Rooms tally $1,000 a night. And present the estimation and marque is being sullied by Activision’s yearly currency cow.

Instead of warring successful the existent Consortium, Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer matches instrumentality spot successful a adjacent facsimile called the Breenbergh hotel. Despite the sanction change, the lineage is wide from the hotel’s facade and main lobby, which lucifer pictures from the Consortium’s website reasonably closely.

Jeff Negus, the game’s manager of photography, told de Volkskrant that galore locations successful the crippled were recreated utilizing photographs owed to distant enactment during the pandemic. He seemingly lone saw the locations in-person during a promotional circuit for the crippled past week. That’s seemingly erstwhile helium posted a video of the canal whose in-game depiction made the rounds connected societal media soon aft the campaign’s aboriginal entree release.

It’s not wide what the edifice means erstwhile it says Modern Warfare 2 “encourages violence” and does not bespeak the hospitality company’s values. The Breenbergh edifice level is your modular postmodern militarist playground similar immoderate different Call of Duty map. There’s a agelong past of fearfulness astir games, particularly shooters, being linked to existent satellite violence, however.

Norway wide shooter Anders Behring Breivik mentioned buying the archetypal 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in his 1,500-page manifesto. He claimed that the crippled acted arsenic a simulator, helping him to bid for the enactment that ended up sidesplitting 77 radical and injuring hundreds more. Millions much played the crippled and didn’t spell connected to go home terrorists.

The Consortium edifice did not accidental whether it mightiness extremity up suing Activision to person its depiction removed from the newest game. Neither instantly responded to a petition for comment.