Microsoft is encouraging people to buy the Xbox edition of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 by offering a special perk that players can’t get on other console systems.
People who preorder any edition of MW4 on a Microsoft Store–including Xbox or PC–will get a $5 digital credit back. Customers on PC will get a pop-up notification from the Xbox app within 35 days of MW4’s launch on October 23 with their Xbox gift card; a similar pop-up notification will appear on Xbox as well.
The fine print states that the promotional gift credit must be redeemed by December 15, 2026, and used within 90 days of redemption. $5 isn’t a whole lot, but it’s also not nothing. In this economy? We’ll take it.
While the $5 credit is exclusive to Xbox consoles and the Xbox app on PC, Microsoft and Activision are bringing back the “loyalty discount” for the game’s $100 Vault Edition on all platforms.
To be eligible for a 10% discount on MW4’s Vault Edition–bringing the price down to $90–players need to have met a few requirements. First, they can get the discount if they own and have played any edition of the games listed below, or if they claimed and played any of those games via PlayStation Plus. Additionally, existing Game Pass Ultimate, Premium, and PC subscribers are eligible for the discount if they played one of the titles.
The fine print also states that the loyalty discount only applies to preorders on the same platform account where they owned and played one of the qualifying titles. MW4 is the first Call of Duty game since 2013 that won’t be on PS4 or Xbox One, so anyone who played a qualifying game on a previous-generation console also gets the loyalty discount. None of the qualifying games were available on a Nintendo platform, so seemingly Switch 2 owners can’t get the discount.
You can visit Activision’s support site to learn more.
Microsoft owns the Call of Duty series, and the company makes the most money when people buy games on its own platforms, so it makes sense to see Microsoft offer up the $5 credit. Microsoft won’t remove Call of Duty from PlayStation, though, because there is simply too much money to be made.
And this year, as mentioned, MW4 is coming to Switch 2. That’s a big deal (and another source of revenue for Microsoft) because the Call of Duty series hasn’t come to a Nintendo platform since 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts.
Qualifying Call of Duty games for the Loyalty Discount
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered (2020)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7