How should I read Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare status?

You should treat this note as a compatibility record for the Windows PC listing. You should not read it as a player-count board, a Steam chart, or a promise that a build stays usable after a patch.

Product status and game-server status are different questions. This site does not publish a live server dashboard or a made-up player count. After a game update, open the status page before you assume the last build still matches the client.

A useful reading order is short. First, confirm you are looking at this listing and not a newer Modern Warfare title. Second, read whether any compatibility note is actually published. Third, treat an empty note as “unverified,” not as “safe.” Easy Anti-Cheat is discussed on that page without a bypass claim, and public material for the 2007 PC release also mentions PunkBuster. Neither name is a result.

Server population, tracker sites, and patch headlines answer other questions. Use those sources for population. Use the patch-notes guide to see how this site talks about updates without inventing a season. Use this discussion when the question is how the status page should be read before you play.

If the card, the status page, and a guide disagree, the status page is the compatibility record and the card is the feature list. This discussion does not add a third list. It only explains which page answers which question.