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Hubris and Bullshit: Modern Warfare 2 PC will not allow dedicated servers.
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water_wendi
Water is not wet!
lol @ the nail in the coffin stuff. MW2 is the game that made like 10 large profile games push themselves into 2010, right? How many PC units would have been sold? 100k vs the millions on console? How many fewer games sold will happen because of this? 5k? 10k? Activision isnt going to give two shits about this uproar. Who cares if the PC crowd made IW who they are? You dont make them as much money now so thats all there is to it.
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
im at home. i just clicked on a forum link further up the thread and my access is cut. Like i was saying ive never been to IWs site ever. Well maybe like years ago if CoD1 had a patch i needed to get.wmat said:
I'm extremely butthurt right now. I'm goofing around with the map making in TF2 and I wanted to try other game toolkits as a hobby. BUT I guess you can scratch that thought off.
I'm looking at my copy of United Offensive and CoD1 right now - the burning I feel right now is nothing but shame. :lol
Kitschkraft
Member
wmat said:
It's been awhile since I've been legitimately rick rolled...:lol
Edit : Does every thread have this now? I'm random clicking and all of them have this....
corkscrewblow said:
This! Strictly talking about CS, Steam and 1.6 brought more trouble than it's worth. They still continue to fuck with the gameplay in CS in an effort to make it more noob friendly. It's like they can't help themselves. Lets not even get into CS:S and DoD:S. God DoD:S, What were Valve thinking
It brings me down just thinking about it. It could always be worse though. The CoD community must be ready to slit their wrists at this point. IW has fallen so far since CoD 2. Even EPIC doesn't have a clue anymore. What the hell has happened.
Visualante
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Dog eat dogwmat said:
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Deleted member 17706
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Number 2 said:
Are you... defending them?
And yeah, this change alone will not signal a nail in the coffin for IW and Modern Warfare 2 will probably be one of the best selling video games of all time across the platforms, but that doesn't mean bullshit like this will help Activision out in the long term. Activision is obviously arrogant. They are spending any goodwill they accumulated as a company like water and it will eventually run out. EA had a huge backlash after it shit down the throats of its customers for years and I have no doubt that Activision will receive similar treatment. They have run out of new materials and are just running all of their franchises into the ground.
Considering how late in the game the game this announcement is, I doubt the news will spread fast enough for most people to hear about the news before buying the game and those PC gamers who enjoyed CoD4 are in for a big surprise when they are greeted with some bullshit matchmaking screen upon booting up multiplayer. The community is as good as dead and people will just move on to other games or go back to CoD4 and you can bet they will all remember this fiasco when Activision starts promoting the next Call of Duty game.
If they don't care about PC sales then maybe they shouldn't even release the damn game instead of acting all holier-than-thou.
im pissed off but lol at this guy
"I hope the get choked by big gay ass cocks.... and i hope they get herpes in the center of their assholes!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8r5q403kU
"I hope the get choked by big gay ass cocks.... and i hope they get herpes in the center of their assholes!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8r5q403kU
At this point i don't know why do they even bother with the PC, IW should break off the support for PC completely as they clearly don't care about it. We'll survive.
Putting the PC in the same basket with the PS360 hurts the PC more then not having the game at all since it just enforces the console "standard" for the future and making the platform something it isn't and doesn't want to be (imho).
I feel a great deal of dissapointmend over the this trend, i don't enjoy games as i did before as i lose functionality for the sake of "steamlining", something i am not willing to accept.
I hope things change in the future before PC loses all the things that made it unique.
Putting the PC in the same basket with the PS360 hurts the PC more then not having the game at all since it just enforces the console "standard" for the future and making the platform something it isn't and doesn't want to be (imho).
I feel a great deal of dissapointmend over the this trend, i don't enjoy games as i did before as i lose functionality for the sake of "steamlining", something i am not willing to accept.
I hope things change in the future before PC loses all the things that made it unique.
MrPing1000
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It's strange to live in a world where Capcom is treating PC gamers better than most developers.
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eggandI said:They are dumb because their money & time would be much better spent on games like Borderlands/Uncharted 2
Smash88 said:
Alright guys, spill it... how much are Valve and Gearbox paying you? I want in on this deal.
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JCtheMC said:
Wow and that was like the only level-headed thread on there.
Visualante
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TheChewyWaffles
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mandiller said:
Not that I disagree with you, but it's 'cause they can't squeeze one red cent from the dedicated server community. Sad, but true.
TheChewyWaffles
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Puck said:
What? Fuck you, you should be thankful, dammit! They said specifically that they did this to save you, their customer, a ton of money!
/sarcasm off
Visualante
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I would've thought they'd look at the balance sheet versus the sales for each version. Providing extra services at cost to a version of the game which sells less is bad business.BigNastyCurve said:
TheChewyWaffles
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x3n05 said:
Yah I don't really get this. I rarely game on my PC anymore except for WoW and I have a nice laptop that could run anything - but still, I used to be a heavy PC gamer and very much support my PC counterparts in this mess. That PS3 and 360 users would mock PC gamers is the height of stupidity.
But we really are the most lube-ready community in the tech world, I think (we console users). It's quite sad.
TheChewyWaffles
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Visualante said:
Except sometimes you just gotta do things out of good will to keep your reputation within a community. Those little intangibles might look red on a balance sheet, but maybe it's what made your franchise a juggernaut to begin with.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
Well, this is just completely asinine.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
I think matchmaking is forty hundred times better than server lists and even I'll admit removing them completely is dumb.
TheChewyWaffles
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JoeFu said:
Yes, if you cancel the order you can re-use the code.
Alex
Member
Matchmaking is good for consoles, but with PC communities you always want server lists/favorites, etc.
It's kind of against the grain of the greater customization/choice you get with the platform.
It doesn't bother me because Call of Duty or any war shooter of that ilk is like the last thing I want to play anymore, but people who are still interested in MW2 should just buy it or dont, dont go with some half assed boycott where you make tons of concessions for some silly principals that you would break constantly under normal conditions.
It's kind of against the grain of the greater customization/choice you get with the platform.
It doesn't bother me because Call of Duty or any war shooter of that ilk is like the last thing I want to play anymore, but people who are still interested in MW2 should just buy it or dont, dont go with some half assed boycott where you make tons of concessions for some silly principals that you would break constantly under normal conditions.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
The uproar over Spore prompted change. Why couldn't this be any different?
Enosh
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BigNastyCurve said:
There have been plenty of things that developers/publishers have tried to screwing gamers over with and backed down on. I hope this is one.
Just wait until they see piracy sales hit a record high, just like Spore because they tried screwing people buying it.
MrTroubleMaker
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Enosh said:
Nemesis121
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Matchmaking garbage...............sheeeesh won't buy this, I have a extra $50 what to buy? Probably spend it Blackfriday get like 4-5 games with it.
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http://csnation.totalgamingnetwork.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180393
I just listened to the original recording where this information came out and damn it is frustrating to listen to. The PR guy they have on is one slimy bastard. Fuck you we got added features like matchmaking and "prestige" crap.
I just listened to the original recording where this information came out and damn it is frustrating to listen to. The PR guy they have on is one slimy bastard. Fuck you we got added features like matchmaking and "prestige" crap.