axia777 said:
For PC gamers it is no dedicated servers period. Activision and Infinity Ward are just fucking huge stinking piles of crap for screwing the PC community like that. I don't think many console gamers care though as there never were dedicated servers. Also they killed Modding the game which is an obviously ploy to kill competition coming from the public. If there is no Modding they figure people are more likely to buy DLC and shit for the game which I am sure is coming soon enough. They also don't like the fact that the Modding community extends the life of a game so the PC gamers are less likely to buy the newest version of the game the next time around. I mean really, who here played Oblivion on the PC for 100+ hours past when the official gameplay ended? Mods RULE. Publishers like Activision HATE Modders!
I think that it's less "they suck and hate the players", and more "it's difficult to justify the expense and time of adding features to appeal to a smaller demographic, and one shown to be more likely to be petulant little turds". And, yes, developers like making money, the PC gaming community already pulls crap like trying to justify their piracy, and then doing
more of it out of spite. That's like beating up a kid, taking his lunch money, and complaining when he stops bringing money to school.
Until the PC gaming master race is able to go, hat in hand, to development studios and say "we're sorry about the whole stealing your games thing, so we're going to try to stem that tide", it'll be thoroughly unsurprising to see fewer and fewer resources being spent making sure you're happy.
And, yes, mods extend the life of the game. But to whose benefit is that? It doesn't benefit the studio, it only benefits the players. If I'm a studio, I'd have to be asking myself why in the world I would want to do things to benefit the players who are going to steal my game.
