Infinity Ward Commits to Years of Warzone Support, Season 6 Coming Late 2021

Infinity Ward is doubling down on its commitment to Call of Duty Warzone. In a recent conversation with the Washington Post, co-studio heads Patrick Kelly and Dave Stohl laid out plans to keep the free-to-play battle royale fed with new content for years to come—a reassurance that matters because Infinity Ward created the game and remains deeply involved in its direction.

The studio is currently in the final stages of preparing Season 6, which will arrive sometime in late 2021 across both Warzone and Cold War. Kelly acknowledged that the team has mapped out what he called "broad stroke" plans extending well into the future, though he was candid about the constraints of game development. Some of the features they're considering—new modes, expanded maps, geographic additions—require substantial time to build properly. "Some things we want to do mode wise, geo wise, they take more time," Kelly explained. "So they naturally need to slot in later."

What distinguishes this commitment is the framing. Kelly and Stohl aren't talking about support in terms of months or a single year. They're thinking in multi-year increments, which in the context of a live-service game signals a fundamentally different approach than treating Warzone as a temporary companion to the annual Call of Duty release cycle. "We do think about this on a multi-year basis," Kelly said. "And I will tell you this: We're doing our damnedest right now, to top what's come before."

The infrastructure backing this pledge is worth noting. Infinity Ward isn't handling everything alone. Raven Software has taken on most of the maintenance work—the steady, unglamorous task of keeping servers running, fixing bugs, and managing the day-to-day health of the game. This division of labor frees Infinity Ward to concentrate on the creative side: the new weapons, the seasonal narratives, the map overhauls that keep players returning. It's a structure that suggests the studio has thought through how to sustain a game at scale over an extended period.

For players who have invested time and money into Warzone, the message is straightforward: this isn't a game being quietly wound down while the studio moves on to the next thing. It's one they're building toward, even if the pace of that building is slower than some might hope. The catch, as Kelly made clear, is patience. Not everything they want to do will arrive quickly. But the intention to keep trying, to keep expanding, to keep surprising the community—that's the commitment being made.