(I'm talking about the PC-Version)
Before you start - guys, I tryed, I really tryed!
Despite the news about no dedicated servers and all the crying and cursing going on, I bought the game for 60? and enjoyed it, especially the multiplayer.
Time went on, and I started to play with several friends online.
But once the usual euphoria about a new game stopped, the cold and bitter reality took its place.
So here we go: Playing MW2 on a PC with friends online is a real pain in the a**!
It can take up to ~10 minutes, until everybody got into the lobby. Then the server-search starts. Sometimes it works, but most of the time you keep getting switched from here to there, you're friends (or yourself) get randomly kicked out of the lobby untill (another 5 minutes later) you end up at the very beginning.
Sometimes you really feel, the game just wants to wind you up and keeps laughing in your face. Its a farce.
But it becomes even better. Once you found a server for your group that you actually can play on... the host exposes himself as some East-European dude from Siberia or something like this, using his brand new 56/k wood-modem-connection, punishing you with 10 more minutes of undescribable lagging, untill the system undestands to change the host.
I really have to ask myself:
-60? for _that_? Honestly?
There is no acceptable reason in the world, why they stopped allowing dedicated servers. It's soooo much easier! Everything is so much easier, and it just works.
Out of nostalgia I just played COD:4 once again. I started the game, went on a nice, big server, where people who were cursing (or using the noobtube) automatically got kicked out of the game - it was to sweet to be true and I felt a single tear coming out of my left eye.
Why in the world would they put those good ol' times to an end? Why?
I still play MW2, it still can be fun, but the times I just quit playing, or better: quit _trying_ to play become more and more.
I have nothing against "changes" in general, really - but why would you change something that perfectly worked for 10? years now and hundreds of games for... well... this crap?
I honestly don't know.
Before you start - guys, I tryed, I really tryed!
Despite the news about no dedicated servers and all the crying and cursing going on, I bought the game for 60? and enjoyed it, especially the multiplayer.
Time went on, and I started to play with several friends online.
But once the usual euphoria about a new game stopped, the cold and bitter reality took its place.
So here we go: Playing MW2 on a PC with friends online is a real pain in the a**!
It can take up to ~10 minutes, until everybody got into the lobby. Then the server-search starts. Sometimes it works, but most of the time you keep getting switched from here to there, you're friends (or yourself) get randomly kicked out of the lobby untill (another 5 minutes later) you end up at the very beginning.
Sometimes you really feel, the game just wants to wind you up and keeps laughing in your face. Its a farce.
But it becomes even better. Once you found a server for your group that you actually can play on... the host exposes himself as some East-European dude from Siberia or something like this, using his brand new 56/k wood-modem-connection, punishing you with 10 more minutes of undescribable lagging, untill the system undestands to change the host.
I really have to ask myself:
-60? for _that_? Honestly?
There is no acceptable reason in the world, why they stopped allowing dedicated servers. It's soooo much easier! Everything is so much easier, and it just works.
Out of nostalgia I just played COD:4 once again. I started the game, went on a nice, big server, where people who were cursing (or using the noobtube) automatically got kicked out of the game - it was to sweet to be true and I felt a single tear coming out of my left eye.
Why in the world would they put those good ol' times to an end? Why?
I still play MW2, it still can be fun, but the times I just quit playing, or better: quit _trying_ to play become more and more.
I have nothing against "changes" in general, really - but why would you change something that perfectly worked for 10? years now and hundreds of games for... well... this crap?
I honestly don't know.
