Modern Warfare 2: Cyber Pirate

This is 100% the truth. $60 is just to much for me to spend.

 

Yes, because that's such a accurate analogy.. but since you used it, let's continue.

What IW has done is provide a car. People had expectations that this car would have 20" wheels, a built in car-phone, and a 4.0L V8. IW came out and said, here's the car! It's a working car, but doesn't have the big engine, fancy wheels and the car-phone. It's still a car, and for a lot of people it's just fine.

Now instead of moving on and trying to find a car that you want, you (the general you, not you specifically) scream at the top of your lungs, create
petitions and constantly complain that the car wasn't what you expected.

It's silly. If you don't like what the car offers, shop around and buy one you do like. But as far as them offering a car without "wheelz" or a steering wheel, that's ridiculous. They've created a car that runs perfectly fine. Just because it's not what you expected it to be, doesn't mean it's not a working vehicle.

 

I'm just going to let that statement stand on its own, friend.

 

I love your bitterness, 2 weeks straight now... its funny. everything u post is flamebait/annoying/ranty/whiney.... just go buy a console and get your fix, you protest to much, i bet secretley you have already pre-ordered for your PC and console and just can't wait to play

 

You can sell the game at a premium if its not officially out yet.

Still though, its hard to find sympathy for the faceless corporation with no dedicated servers or command console.

 

I wonder with all the negative press with the PC version, if its MSRP will drop fairly quickly? Maybe some stores will sell it at much lower prices if we wait a bit? I just want to play the campaign.

 

It will drop. But not until the hype has died down, which will take quite a while.

 

If this situation goes worse then IW might take step as Microsoft for not releasing Gears of War for PC anymore.

 

And then you buy the car anyways, LOL.

 

Activision donates $1M to vets on launch day

 

The silly thing is what MW2 is doing in respect to MW1. The problem that everyone has is that it's going backwards. Why would you ever remove a feature that everyone likes? We're not asking for 20" wheels on our car. We're asking to keep the air conditioning that was there standard on last year's car model. Technical computer users (i.e. most of the PC gaming community) are especially vocal about features that degrade the experience (I call them anti-features), such as DRM, disk checks, and online registration. PC gamers have been getting a lot of the anti-features, especially since PC gaming is starting to take a backseat to console gaming. MW2 is just another example where console gaming is destroying the PC experience (which benefits in its greater range of customization, tight nit communities, and greater control options), and PC gamers just won't take it.

It's just like how a lot of us are vocal about 16:9 taking over. It might have been rare initially, but it's market presence snowballed once someone started using it. What if MW2 is the trendsetter, showing that poor console ports can still sell well? The rest of the industry will be sure to follow, turning the PC into nothing more than an expensive XBox. PC Gamers cannot allow that to happen.

 

Good point, was nodding to myself while reading it, Lol.

 

doubt it. ive been waiting for modern warfare 1 to drop to 20 bucks for what....2 years? i expect the same of mw 2. but this probably means i can buy mw for 20 bucks in a month or 2.

activision cant buy my affection until they fire bobby kotick. (not a bad move on thier part, and good for the vets, but i still dont like activision.)

 

+1. Well said. I never understood how or why they remove features from games (or movies or any other media for that matter) that made it successful initially. It's fine if they want to try something new, but don't remove smoething that works well if it doesn't interfere with something else.

 

Well lets see how it works, maybe it wont be too bad. I am installing as I type here, and we will see how the lag is, how well it connects, etc.

 

How did it fare out for you? Any lag, poor connections?

 

Ok, so they donated about 0.01% of their annual profit to an organization to try and get people on to their side. Companies do this every year, it's a massive tax write-off, the fact that they had to announce what they did is proof enough they only did it to get people on their side.

 

Activison is a bunch of greedy ****s and they deserve all the pirates they get.

 

It's Activision that is mostly to blame. IW is just following the orders. After it's the same activision that decided that starcraft campaigns would be sold separately.

 

fixed it

 

I actually thought it was nice, until I read that. I forgot about the tax write off's, and the publicity that comes with it.