PC Gamers, Boycott MW2

[stabnex]

Every single person in this thread who have said they are going to buy this game is a fucking moron. You know what you all just said? "Durr, aye want pey hunded n mur for regluar gaems! Garms iz too chaepe!"

Modern Warfare 2 and everyone involved in its creation, testing, manufacturing, distribution I tell you this: Go drown in a fire.

[small]I hate you all![/small]

 

[Necrofudge]

I probably wouldn't have been too happy about buying it right away anyways. At least this gives me a new reason for not caring about the new Modern Warfare game.

 

[Zefar]

Where have I seen this before? *cough* L4D2 *cough*
I bet Infinity Ward will be devastated by this.
OT: I am sorry but this is fucking retarded. Don't you think that there is, in fact, a reason for "the evil IW" to remove those features, other than to mess with the PC community.
You'll buy the fucking game anyway.

Good god people. You along with plenty of others in this thread seems to have no fucking clue on what's going on and WHY we are mad. Go back to your consoles if it doesn't bother you.

Seriously, it isn't that hard to grasp.

Can you seriously see IW being able to support with servers for the ENTIRE WORLD? :/ Think about countries with less player base than USA but still got plenty.

Valve are unable to handle to a release of a new popular game without having the servers crashing due to overload and you are asking IW to deal with a number 20+ times larger at ONCE?

This will lead to crappy ping, unable to find servers that you like, being sent to servers with few players on and so on.

Living in Sweden I can safely say we will get lower support than USA will and due to that. All the Swedish players will either fight to get into those few servers that we have or we will have way higher ping. Rather than just letting us join the server with the best ping.


There is a GOOD reason why no other online FPS have used this type of netcode. It fails right away. One game tried and it was released not long ago, like Medal of Honor: Airborne something and it failed.
Almost no popular FPS or even unpopular FPS use this system.

Even DICE said it's a bad move and they made Battlefield series and due to Dedicated servers, their games lived on for much much longer than a normal game.

Also what will happen if IW focus on a new game? Will the server support be cut in half?

So we are mad because we get LESS and a worse version that what we could have gotten and we have to pay MORE for less features.
IQ can try this system but they will quickly find out how bad it is when the servers crash and people complaining on forums about bad ping issues.

There are things you don't just change.

 

[ryai458]

this will definitely work

 

[johnman]

I have stated my piont on this already but no I wont buy, i never really intented too.

 

[Lordmarkus]

I love my PC. But I also love the SP experience IW gives so for me it's still worth my 45 ?.

Is the MP shit then I just go back playing TF2 as I've done for the last year.

 

[AngryFrenchCanadian]

I agree with everything but this part :

]You mess with the PC community, you mess with one of the most powerful forces in society.

I do think that IW should allow for Dedicated servers, but going as far as saying the PC (I assume gaming) community is one of the most powerful forces in society is a bit exaggerating. Not in the sense that it's not the most powerful compared to other gaming communities, but we are talking about the customer (gamer) vs. a Company making a product (IW). It's not like the PC gaming community was going to change dramatically the way the world works, much less the whole gaming industry. Gaming is still just entertainment and should be seen as such. You don't like a certain company/game franchise? Just don't buy the damn game, buy something else. Just because you're a fan of the COD franchise doesn't mean you're entitled for anything. It's the L4D boycott all over again (by the way the ''official'' boycott group for that game was disbanded).

 

[Pimppeter2]

Meh, I don't really care about the game itself, so I wouldn't bother

Way ahead of you, I was already not going to buy it when I saw the gameplay footage.

Also, this

 

[Taerdin]

It's the L4D boycott all over again (by the way the ''official'' boycott group for that game was disbanded).

They can only hope for as much success as the L4D2 boycott. The leaders decided to stop running it after they felt that they had achieved all that they could, which was more than anyone really expected them to achieve. If only every company listened to their customers like Valve!

Power to these guys if they can get the company to cater more to their customers. The only thing I hate about this is all the complainers and whiners who put the boycott down for absolutely no logical reason whatsoever. Seriously, grow up

 

[IckleMissMayhem]

]If you haven't heard already, Infinity Ward has released the information that there will be NO DEDICATED SERVERS and NO MODS for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. When it comes to computers, one of the most fundamental advantages a PC gamer has over a console gamer is the ability to mod or play mods.

Aww, diddums. May as well just buy it on a console then, or are you too afraid to mingle with the common-folk?
Personally, I wouldn't buy it, s'not my type of game. Boycotting it is the knee-jerk, 'cutting-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face' response, and game publishers won't really give a flying twosie.

 

[Gigano]

Why boycot something which will almost certainly be an excellent game, just because it doesn't give you MORE options than the other (i.e console) platforms? I can understand if someone who wanted it mostly for clan matches and modding is gonna drop it now, but a boycot?

 

[Dys]

Oh, how petty of all you PC gamers. You've had it too good for too long.

Or, more logically, removing dedicated servers might be some sort of cost-cutting measure. After all, this is an economic recession, and Activision/Infinity Ward are businesses as surely as PC gamers are not.

You do know that's it's not IW/Activision who keeps the server running.
You do know that servers can cost from $50 to $100 per month to keep them running.

Bolded Part: Is that jealousy? Lol.

$50-$100 per month? Seriously? Do you mean every single server operating worldwide?. Dedicated servers cost in the cents per year for large scale companies to run, even in Australia (the land of terrible ISPs, poor connections and bloated hardware costs) it is far less than $50 a month to host a single server through an ISP. Ultimately I'm agreeing with your point, that servers cost dick all to host and it isn't a cost activision are taken for anyway, but it re-emphasizing how unbeleivably cheap it is to run a dedicated server.

It doesn't matter whether people think a boycott or not will make any difference, too much has been done too wrong with this title, and a significant portion of the market will not buy this game on PC because of it (whether they simply move onto another platform or skip the game altogether is another thought). I am not buying it, I have bought every PC call of duty except for 5 (I buy them for the multiplayer). This is not a rare train of thought and activision are aware that a huge portion of the PC gaming community will feel similarly, ultimately it's their call, if they don't want my support that's their decision...The quality of call of duty games has been rapidly decreasing since 2, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make anywhere near what they expect too off of mw2. I also wouldn't care if they made double.

 

[Steelfists]

Oh, how petty of all you PC gamers. You've had it too good for too long.

Or, more logically, removing dedicated servers might be some sort of cost-cutting measure. After all, this is an economic recession, and Activision/Infinity Ward are businesses as surely as PC gamers are not.

There are three things wrong with that statement.

Try and work them out for yourself, maybe you'll actually use your brain for once.

Well, I suppose you don't need to. Someone as hilarious doesn't need to be clever.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Why boycot something which will almost certainly be an excellent game, just because it doesn't give you MORE options than the other (i.e console) platforms? I can understand if someone who wanted it mostly for clan matches and modding is gonna drop it now, but a boycot?

Well the PC has always has those options taking away from one group so it is on par as the others is unfair why not raise the standard with others?

 

[WickedSkin]

Well I wasn't going to get it anyway. Now I have even more reason not to.

 

[WickedSkin]

Everyone who boycotts grow up, just because someone does something that you don't approve of doesn't mean you have to throw your toys out the pram, it's not that big a deal, if it was major like no pc game/pc multi player at-all then you should boycott it, but this kind of thing shouldn't mean that much. and if you don't like it, stick to cod 4 for that kind of thing.

It means A LOT because it's what makes PC gaming better then console gaming. Servers lists and MODS are fucking awesome.

They can still have matchmaking but make it an option. A simple button on the menu that let's you play a matchmaking game instead of a proper dedicated server game. I'd have nothing against that.

This is killing the whole thing about PC gaming that makes it so great.

 

[vanguard_anon]

Very few people have brought up that PC gamers pirate at an extraordinary rate. Part of their motivation for this change is to combat pirates. They also want to combat cheaters/hackers. Finally, they think that they game they design is better for all audiences than the modified "no fragx3, last stand, juggernaut, etc" model that random people employ.

Stop cheating and stop pirating and maybe this wouldn't happen.

 

[Fniff]

Eh,it's not too bad.

I will be shooting people ether way(If I buy it,depending on the reviews)

Also,we aren't the most powerful people.

Without PC game developers,we wouldn't exist.