You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2

Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2

You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2
Is this the cuckoo's egg strategy? Require the user to install your games and consume so much disk space that they have to choose between playing your game and somebody else's?
Nah, it's just cutting costs by reusing the same poorly optimized high quality bullshittery in all of their games.
Both, it's both.