Can you play MW4 DMZ for free? November 11 cutoff, explained

Activision’s Steam news post is the clock this desk is using. Headline: “The DMZ Free Trial begins Now! PLAY DMZ FOR FREE UNTIL NOV 11 AT 10AM PT.” Body: “For a limited time from November 6 at 12PM PT through November 11 at 10AM PT, get full access to DMZ in Call of Duty® Modern Warfare® 4 for FREE.” The official Call of Duty account posted November 6: “The DMZ Free Trial begins now. Drop into Hajin and X01, take on new Orders, and fight to extract with your loot through November 11.” Kyle Ocean’s Xbox Wire Free Play Days post, November 5, prints the same start and end. This is not a campaign trial and not a Warzone giveaway.

The cutoff in Eastern Time

Steam’s event card on that news post lists the live window as Friday, November 6, 3:01 p.m. EST through Wednesday, November 11, 1:00 p.m. EST — the same instants as 12 p.m. / 10 a.m. PT. One Xbox Wire line in the Free Play Days block typos “10 AAM PT.” The matching “10 AM PT” wording is on that same page’s lede, on Steam’s headline, and on Steam’s body. This page uses 10 a.m. PT.

Where the trial is actually listed

• PC: Steam news post above. The Call of Duty hub on Steam is the file.
• Xbox: Xbox Wire plus a Microsoft Store listing titled “Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 - DMZ Free Trial.” Xbox Wire put that trial inside a Free Play Days roundup that also names PAYDAY 3 and other weekend trials.
• PlayStation: PlayStation Store listing titled “Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4 - DMZ Free Trial,” marked FREE TRIAL on PS5. Fine print on that page includes “PS Plus required for online play.” This desk is not adding extra PlayStation terms that listing does not print.
• Switch 2: Adrian Morales at GameRant, November 7, 11:20 a.m. EST, writes that dedicated trial listings are live on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch 2, and PC. This desk confirmed the Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation storefronts. It did not find a Nintendo eShop or nintendo.com trial listing. Nintendo’s October 23 MW4 launch post is the full game, not this free-trial window.

Xbox-store fine print on the trial page: “A mobile phone number may be required to be linked to your Activision account to play Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4. Internet connection, Game Pass Essential subscription and nominal fee may be required.” That Game Pass line is on the Xbox listing, under a Free Play Days post Xbox Wire labels “Game Pass Membership Required.” Steam’s news post does not print Game Pass. The PlayStation listing does not print Game Pass. Do not treat that Xbox sentence as a requirement on PlayStation or PC.

What official copy says is in the trial

Steam: “get full access to DMZ.” Then: “Deploy into the definitive Call of Duty extraction experience, a living combat sandbox where every deployment is a new story. Go solo or squad up to loot, fight, negotiate, betray, and extract with whatever you can carry across Hajin.” The Call of Duty account names Hajin and X01 in the same sentence. Xbox Wire, and the Xbox store listing, lead with X01: “Infiltrate X01, take on new DMZ Orders, and complete Threat Assessments to earn valuable rewards. Fight, loot, and extract with your squad across the full DMZ experience.” Xbox Wire’s extra clause on X01: “a former North Korean weapons facility seized by Russian forces.” Those are two official framings, not one map this desk is merging. This desk’s Season 1 brief already filed X01 as “a former GRANIT Arms black site on the edge of Hajin”: https://respawnhq.net/articles/mw4-season-1-november-6 Hajin as a Warzone Battle Royale map is a separate file: https://respawnhq.net/articles/warzone-season-1-hajin-november-6

GameRant’s color, not on Steam or Xbox Wire: players “can deploy into Hajin,” Season 1 “introduced X01, a secret underground weapons facility with winding tunnels,” plus DMZ Orders, Threat Assessments, and a Forward Operating Base. That Hajin-plus-X01 reading is GameRant’s. GameRant also writes that the trial “does not include MW4’s story campaign or standard multiplayer modes.” Steam and Xbox Wire do not print a campaign or 6v6 invite. This desk is not adding those modes.

DMZ early access for digital preorders already ran in October on this desk: https://respawnhq.net/articles/modern-warfare-4-dmz-early-access-times This trial is a later, time-boxed window for people who do not own the game. This desk has not played the trial.