So..who stuck to their guns and held out on MW2?

Well, it's not the reason I am skipping it, it's because Activision is screwing over PC gamers to make more money and acting like it's a service to us.

Kind of like how the Macbook Air only had one USB port which lots of people complained about, and Apple just said "No no, it's a feature."

Activision is hurting the PC gaming community and I refuse to support that.


I just think it's important to understand the value of the modding community. The people who create these mods often go unappreciated.

 

What is this talk about because there are no mods, it stifles innovation. Last I checked, Quake wasn't a mod of Doom, but it did fine. Warcraft II wasn't a mod of Warcraft, but it did fine. Warcraft III wasn't inspired by a mod of Warcraft II, but it did fine.

Inspiration can come from anything.

All the boycott has done is become a club for whiners and sissies. Boo hoo. IW made an awesome game and we are boycotting because of some arbitrary feature. Seriously, you could release all the other crap FPSes at half the price of CoD and they wouldn't sell nearly as well as CoD. You know why?

Cause it's an awesome game.

Competitive leagues? Get a life. You are 1% of 1% of gamers. If you were so leet, you would get over it cause it's an awesome game.

And I see all these complaints about $60? My God. Give them $10 so they can keep making awesome games. Is that too much to ask?

I'm beginning to see why people say today's generation is spoiled and undeserving.

 

stopped buying cod after cod2

 

if i like it i'll probly buy it... that means i wont be buying it anytime soon. it's probably a month or 2 before it arrives here anyway!

 

I didn't say I was boycotting it. I didn't sign a petition, I didn't join a steam group, I just chose not to buy it. I only voiced my opinion where applicable. The game lacks a feature which is generally the feature which causes me to buy a game. I know I am 1% of 1% and I know to them, I am nothing. I have a life - you know nothing about me and what I do. How can you say competitive gamers have no lives? I enjoy competitive play - everyone has a hobby. I'm so leet that I won't get over it, because playing in public games is painful. Being called a hacker is annoying. Being voted off of servers constantly is annoying. I can buy or not buy a game for any reason I want, and while the gameplay may be "awesome" (your opinion, though I'd probably agree) having to play the game with a bunch of whiny 14 year olds who are terrible and swearing 35 year olds who are convinced that anyone who can beat them MUST be cheating, this, this is not awesome. I haven't even brought up how old it gets running a score of 50-2 in a game while everyone else is 10-10. I wish I could get more of a challenge out of pubs. Playing an awesome game with awesome gameplay with people of your caliber and strict rules on no crap talking... that is awesome.


Oh... and obviously not all games are a mod of another game. Doesn't invalidate the fact that creativity often begins as a modification of another game.

Forgot to mention - in regards to the "crap" games. I'd rather play those if I can play competitively. Like CSS for example - it's one of the only good twitch FPS games in leagues right now, and even though I'm not crazy about it as a game, I still enjoy playing a CSS pug way more than I every enjoyed COD4 pubs.

 

I held out. Never touching this.

 

I bought it, I love it. You guys are missing out.

 

Hep! has voiced my stance well already, so I'll keep it short.

In regards to the question asked: Yes, I've "stuck to my guns".

I don't whine, I don't complain, I simply don't buy. For me, it's all about supporting products which contain features in which I'm interested. The way IW handled it and communicated with the consumer was the icing on the cake. You can remove whichever features you desire, and I'll respect that, but don't talk down to me while you're trying to say that I'm better off without it.

I also would like to say that there's no reason to resort to insults if you disagree with my stance. Just keep it rolling and let's stay respectful.

 

Did not buy it simply because of multiplayer issues.

 

I stuck to my guns the game cost more than the standard pc game $60 MSRP, buying it at that price is just sending the message that we think its ok to charge that much for a game, and that means other PC games in the future will also start to cost more.

The main reason besides price is that I was not too interested in the multiplayer only the singleplayer campaign, and for that I have no problems waiting to find the game cheaper down the road. There are many good games out right now to hold me over till that happens and other games I want to replay.

 

What are they going to do next? Ask us to pay for DLC? Hahahaha.....unless they start selling it for $29.99 I won't be buying it anytime soon.

 

I stuck to my guns on this one, not buying it or ever planning on it.

I am however wussing out on Left 4 Dead 2 and buying it

 

Um, not really. There would be a greater chance for developers to stick to what works based on what they know. Thus, we would have had plenty of dooms and wolfensteins probably using the same gameplay with better graphics.

Consider this, for almost every great FPS game that came out, there was a similar mod already out a few years before and was successful. Thus, from that, one could tell that the market would have been receptive to such a game.

Also, I don't remember games having sniper rifles before action quake. Then with counter strike coming out with it....seemed to be a surge of games featuring it.


Nevertheless, I shall not be buying this game until the dedicated servers come back and there is a sale. Otherwise, this game can die the death it deserves.

 

Shows how spineless some of us are, it's no wonder we were never taken seriously. This proves to the devs that we crumble, so they will come up with some other way to screw us over and will not need to worry again!

Currently playing DA:O, screw you MW2!

 

$60 for a ~5 hour interactive Jerry Bruckheimer movie with an online BD-live like multiplayer?

I don't know.

Though, I remember a few years back they said PC gaming was dying. I sort of scoffed at the notion back then. Now, I'm thinking I might need to set aside $60 for a floral arrangement.

Don't get me wrong. I played the game on a friend's computer over the course of 2 nights. It definitely had its moments. Honestly can't say it's worth $60. At least not my $60. I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy it a lot less if it were my coin put out.

I believe I'd have felt cheated.

 

Oh wow lol, I never boycotted the game. I do not think the move for servers and what not was a good one but like I said I only really wanted it for the single player mode. CoD:MW has one of the most uniqe fps single player stories I ever played, I really felt like I was there and enjoyed it.

But it was short, too short and not worth $50, so now I expect an equally good MW2 single player but it needs to be priced for what a short game should be priced at, $30 or less for me.

That boycott though... just lol. Thats a huge percentage of people that said they would not buy it that did buy it and are playing it. No integrity there. Same goes for the ultra low user ratings like a 1.4/10?? still it sold better than most other games for the entire year with over 3 million copies or something like that.

They banked on CoD:MW2 despite all the complaints and critisim so as far as I see it, none of those complaints or criticisms are going to amount to anything.

 

Does it count if I never intended to buy it in the first place, nor have played any of the COD series because I knew it would eventually amount to this? The same goes for L$D2.

The ones who demand quality or nothing, we're the gamers that make gaming what it is, our attention to detail is why things like AA and AF exist in games and our communities breathe life into dedicated servers. Buying MW2 and any other console-ported shoddy-work gimped game just throws all of that away.

As much as I love gaming, when our future is in jeopardy I can do without. So sadly, I'm playing nothing right now.

 

So far, I am regretting purchasing the game for the price of $50. Granted, I have never played online multiplayer in my life and I decided to try it out with this game and have had some fun over the past few days. Now, its getting a bit stale, maybe that will change. I always thought of online MP to be boring and a waste of time, the only MP for me would be local with my friends but I have had fun with this.

And I am already in Act 2 of the campaign and played it for only 1.5 hours in Hardened Mode. This campaign looks to be FAR, FAR shorter than in the first game. The levels are literally over in a flash! I'm surprised they didn't release this game as multiplayer-only. I enjoyed replaying the single-player missions in the first game in Arcade Mode, too bad they scrapped in favor of Spec-Ops Mode and then that mode has some maps that are only multiplayer and the PC version has no splitscreen I'd love to play with my brother. Don't you realize more PC gamers are hooking up their PCs to TVs?

I am sad that I have spent $50 on the game, thanks to Fry's Electronics. If I spent $60, I'd be even more upset.

Hopefully, I can keep enjoying the multiplayer and try out MP in other games with dedicated servers such as the prequel to see what they are all about. I am afraid of beating the campaign now as it is so darn short!!!

I feel a bit dirty playing this game with it being so mainstream, consolized and with such an evil publisher and perhaps developer behind it that loathe the PC platform. I need to wash it off by playing a game like Deus Ex, my brother highly recommends it.

 

i didn't really mind the no dedicated server and 9v9 max thing but what ticks me off the most is the 60$ price tag. i 'd rather give a hobo the extra 10$, to me it's a matter of principle. the message IW and Activision sends out is pretty clear, we are gonna cut the features and rise the price and you PC gamers are still gonna kiss our shoes. i don't know if you call this "boycotting", i just don't think this game is worth it and i don't like the direction that this game is leading the industry to. still, i'm a fan of the first game so i'll probably watch the campaign playthrough video in HD or something.

 

Gonna be downloaded in a few ours ^^;
Singleplayer only of course >_<;

 

Didn't buy it...didn't even know it was coming out until last week...

But it's not about the 'boycott' for me...(I guess we gamers are now one step away from unionizing, paying dues and electing some officers to protect our 'rights'...maybe the U.S. citizens here can form a lobby group and petition Congress to fix Activision and EA after they take care of the other matters of great import on their agenda like creating a playoff system for college football or eliminating performance enhancing drugs from professional sports)...

I didn't buy it because I'm too busy playing Dragons Age and Borderlands...I thought CoD4 was cool (still haven't finished it...can't seem to find the focus to finish the hayfield level in Eastern Europe), but not cool enough to justify $60 for the new one (and my PC hardware will struggle with it anyway and I'm not ready to upgrade hardware)...

MW2 appears to be highly polished, but I can't disagree with some of the 'boycotters'...it looks like a game that was aimed squarely for the 360...

I will buy it eventually ($30? $20?)...and I will buy it for the PC...and the 4-5 hour SP campaign should go nicely with my ADHD...and I'll never touch the multiplayer...

And on a side note...Activision and EA didn't just become 'evil' over the last couple of years...it's been almost two decades developing...in the 80's, before we developed the sophisticated publisher/developer methodology of game production with milestones and deliverables and marketing, EA and Activision were a couple of groups of coders with one or two fellows that had just enough business sense so everyone else could pay their bills while making games...they were gamers making games for gamers...you knew the designers/coders by name (David Crane, Bob Whitehead, Paul Reiche, Dan Bunten)...some people smelled profit, and the little, enthusiast cottage industry became more about the shareholder gains which is what every truly successful capitalist organization is after...make no mistake...capitalism and profits only care about the consumer so far as moving product...it's all about the shareholders...if you're going to truly boycott MW2, you need to take that money and buy two copies of 'World of Goo'...

 

I still have not bought it because of the dedicated server issue.

 

The campaign was awesome It was very enjoyable

 

I was looking forward to MW2, then came the announcement of $60 price and I was iffy on that. I was definitely going to skip it when the news of no dedicated servers came. I have no interest in MW2's sp (couldn't even be arsed to finish CoD4 sp) so its value is solely for mp and my minimum is 12v12 games. Living in Hawaii also means most players I'll run into will be in the west coast and I think that'll have higher latency without dedis. I can't be sure, but I'm not willing to pay $60 bucks to find out.

Anyway, I learned my lesson from the Spore/DRM issue and opted out of this one. It just seems useless to get into grandiose boycotting and online petitions. As that Steam boycott group screenshot showed, you're not going to get enough people to stick to their guns nor can you really get PC gamers to make a united front. It's been entertaining though to read the back-and-forth arguments on here.

Have a fun weekend with whatever you're all playing!

 

I did'nt believe in MW2 until I bought it and tried it out for myself. The game is incredibly fun. The SP has a great story line and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Now I am getting into the MP which is GREAT! There are a few bugs here and there but IW.net is still new and I'm sure things will be nicely patched in a few days time.

The gameplay is great and I don't see myself getting bored of this for quite some time. Then again that's why I alternate between games so I don't get burnt out on one.

L4D2 Next Tuesday!!!

 

I stick to my guns and didnt buy the game even though im borrowing my friends copy for a month when he get back from college since he has no time to play it. I completed single player today it was epic a bit better than COD4's and more challenging and Multiplayer kinda of sucks the matchmaking keeps sending me to the same servers that were full of hackers on and VAC wasnt banning them fast enough. Before you start calling me a whiner hear me out i didnt boycott the game, nor signed the petiton, nor joined the MW2 steam group. Overall the game is gonna die in a few months when the hype dies down and people start getting bored of the game because there is no dedicated servers, no mods, server admins to control the servers,etc The longvilty of MW2 is going to be very short and same people that are enjoying the game now will be wishing there were mods and dedicated servers in MW2 and see how IW shafted us PC gamers after supporting them for years since COD1