MW2 - why are people STILL playing?
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Because there isn't a MW3 yet.
DURRR!! Because its a fad! Eventually after MW92347562345 They'll stop selling and exploit some other franchise.
DURRR!! Because its a fad! Eventually after MW92347562345 They'll stop selling and exploit some other franchise.
It sold about eleventy billion copies, and is a highly polished game with a devoted fanbase, I'm amazed anyone is surprised that the game is still being played.
It's a fad as much as anything. Not only is there the entire issue of FPS addiction, but also the fact that the contreversy the games have generated due to the whole airport terrorism thing, and the gruesome "death by nuke" section in the original, have made these games "edgy" to be playing. As well as making them clearly something kids should not have so that makes it especially cool for kids to have and be playing them (as such things tend to work out).Josh12345 said:
It's not hard to understand, especially when you consider that as much was spent on advertising and marketing to engender this kind of following, as was spent on the game itself by all reports I have seen.
That said, FPS is not my genere of choice, there are very few games that are considered "shooters" that I play or support. Thus my interest is minimal. I can't speak for much of the content in the MW-2 games other than what I've seen, because it's not something I've played or followed too heavily. I can't say "this game is awesome because of this" or "it blows chips because of this".
The disturbing thing about your observation though is that it shows how heavily cowed the market is. The fact that all your friends own "Modern Warfare 2" and are getting all psyched up to go running out to buy the next title in the series despite all the crud pulled by guys like Bobby Kotick and the surrounding business practices is the disturbing thing. This kind of "junkie" behavior is exactly why he is able to act like he does, and heap abuse and ridiculous financial exploitation on the customer base. I can't help but wonder how many people who play "Modern Warfare" or plan to buy the next installment know anything about the policies of the company or how they are hurting themselves in the long term by supporting them. Skip a couple of "Modern Warfare" titles, give Kotick a bath, and down the road we'll probably all benefit with less financially exploitive games and more respect for the customer base.
Counterstrike is over a decade old and people still play that, don't they? People usually keep playing things they like, and people like Call of Duty.
Comando96 said:Personally MW2 just annoys me now...
It is just so... unreal and insane compared to the more down to earth Bad Company Battlefield 2 which I love
Yes the BFBC2 is a paragon of realism in its depiction of the Russians having conquered everything but the united states and still having the manpower to do more than collapse. Neither game is down to earth. Deal with it.
I know... and it looks 100 times better than MW2... no commando, no nuke, no stopping power and jugg, no stacking killstreaks, no shotgun secondaries, no danger close, guns have recoil.... drool.Kathinka said:that might be true, but i made the cold turkeyMiracleOfSound said:
now cod7 is coming arround to tempt me again... T_T
DON'T TEST ME!
Close enough to my answer. I was just gonna say "Because its a hell of a lot of fun to play, dick." But that works too.Sassafrass said:
Seriously, I dont understand why its so hard to believe for ome people that games like this and even Halo 3 still get players. Theyre just fun to play. People like to play them. End of story.otherwise they wouldnt be played so much.
I would imagine he was referring to the feel of the gameplay as opposed to the story.Canid117 said:
In which case I would agree with him, BC2 does make you feel more 'in the battle' than the clusterfuck frantic gameplay of MW2.
I've been playing a lot of Reach and I have to say the multi has its flaws...Irridium said:
The boot after one team kill is an apalling addition, I got booted because some dumb fuck team-mate ran out in front of my Warthog and then voted to boot me for betraying him.
And then there is the godawful quit ban... the fucking game's shitty server disconnects you and then bans you for quitting!
Also, the maps are too windy and vertical... many games are spent with 80% of the time running around trying to find people. I hope they give us some smaller maps in DLC.
Yeah, thats true. Bungie stated that they're working on the betrayal thing, but the quit-ban is basically staying as is for the time being. Its bullshit, I agree. I have the same disconnect issues, it disconnects from Xbox Live randomly and its annoying as all hell.MiracleOfSound said:
Wish it had more maps. And more maps that weren't just ripped from campaign.
There's just as many childish and stupid BBC2 players. All the vehicles aside from helicopters are either ridiculous underpowered, or never utilized correctly, with helicopters being ridiculously overpowered and used to suicide bomb objectives.AmrasCalmacil said:
Every person ever tries to snipe. It is ridiculous.
The whole defense aspect leads to a game even more focused on camping, as moving from cover will usually either get you blown away by the enemy team consisting entirely of snipers, or blown up by the tank that showed up right as you ran out of rockets, and your asshat teammates all pick Medic just for LMGs.
And that is pretty much all it goes down too, with the exception of UNLESS YOUR PLAYING WITH FRIENDS which everyone uses to argue about online games.
...or from the previous games! I know Forge World is amazing and all, but those maps aren't in pub matchmaking.Irridium said:
Oh, and Armour Lock... FUCK Armour Lock. COD levels of noob-friendliness.