Activision Defends Modern Warfare 2 PC

still no dedicated server support

move along folks

What nonsense.

I canceled my preorder so you should be worried Activision. Don't take PC gamers for granted.

The hardcore gamers that were at first impressed by Infinity Ward are now dumbfounded. There goes our support, good luck with the casual gamer crowd and making auto-targeting the next big thing for MW3.

November 11? What happened to the 10th?

this game will fail

"One of the problems with our PC SKUs in the past is that it has not been as friendly a consumer experience in terms of matchmaking and online play as the consoles have allowed it to be,"

BS, are they telling us that because i think it the other way around. are they trying to see how fast they can ruin a game and piss of there customers?

I was actually planning on being competitive in this game (eg 8-10 hours per day) by entering tournaments, whilst simultaneously failing my classes. This is bullshit. The sole reason I built my new comp was so that I would only look to increase my skill and realize that if I lost, it was because the other person was better than me. I would then add that person to my list, learn their techniques, join a low-ping server, surpass them and own them. Now I have to worry about either of us having an advantage depending on who hosts??

You joke, but, Auto Targeting will come to the pc.

I really wish these game publishers would just come on out and and say it. " We don't care about PC gaming, the cash is in the consoles"

I played pretty hardcore way back with Medal of Honor and CoD + expansion and CoD2. I'd play clan matches where we would have to play on each others' servers. It was always an advantage to those who lived closest to the server, as there was always an advantage to the lower ping. In the old days, a kill was a kill, not a kill from calling in an air raid. I think I still have screenshots of my kill/loss being 108:7 and 56:0. I was seriously that good. Even if I had 80 ping and other people had 20 ping, I'd still do good, but my teammates wouldn't. So in the end, having a higher ping isn't that much of an advantage against great players, but against decent to good players, it's almost unfair.

K, so while I don't consider myself QUITE a hardcore gamer, I do think I'm pretty close and definitely far beyond casual. And while I do think limiting matches to 9v9 is lame, and I'm mildly disappointed about dedicated servers, I really don't understand why people are so upset over the lack of console commands. Maybe someone can explain how exactly they're so useful?

There's streamlining an interface to make it easier to use, then there's dumbing down the game.

We wouldn't be upset if they simply redesigned the browser for ease of use.

"But we're not overly concerned about it."

translation: "We don't care about what small niche gamers think about our games. As long as console versions make up bulk of sales, PC version can die for all we care."

WE don't want stupid console kids coming over and joining our good severs w/out knowing how to play the game.

the best games i bought from IF was Call of duty 1 and 2 but the rest isnt good enough. i download them

Seems everyone is jumping to conclusions about how this will all play out. Who's to say this won't streamline the online play and keep cheaters at bay better?

Don't worry, guys. They'll just blame lack of sales on Pirates.

Little do they know, I Ninja my software now!

Sure we do.. easy kills :-) Besides, They don't want people cry when they get owned, hence their matchmaking system.

*sigh* I'm prolly gonna get bashed for this, but here goes. How can we expect developers and publishers to make games that cater to a hardcore audience if it's not profitable? I keep hearing people bash publishers because they are only motivated by money, but what else do we expect them to be motivated by?

The publishers WILL go where the money is, but that's also where the people are. We're seeing a trend of more games catering to casual gamers because the audience of casual gamers FAR outnumbers hardcore gamers...there's just no way around it and I have a hard time believing that the collective bitching and moaning of the relatively small hardcore gaming community can do much about it.

What worries me the most is how Activision can calmy say something along the lines of "We're not concerned about it." This is the same as saying "We hear you, and we don't care. We KNOW what we're doing. We don't need YOUR input."

This act of defense is nothing more than a cowardly cold shoulder to the community.

We dont give a damn about your "match making". We want dedicated server support, period.

Good thing I'm not a MW or COD enthusiast. I dropped them a long time ago when they dragged the WWII era gaming through the ground every year. So many things I dislike about the company even though the gaming experience is moderate. Game developers seem to have put themselves on a pedestal in the last decade. Correct me if I'm wrong but you are only dollar signs to the Developers and Publishers nowadays. Valve is one of the select few who have absorbed the community into there company and not just used there loyal followers.

If only more people Devs and Pubs could see us for more then dollar signs perhaps we could have some real innovation in the future instead of repeating the classic games from the 90's and early millennium over and over with new weapons and fancy pantsy graphics on new colorful maps. How many times can you repeat the same title under a new name?

So much fail on so many levels. Has activision or IW ever played an FPS on a PC? I'm guessing not, otherwise they would know just how bad of an idea locally hosted games are.

I look forward to IW/Activision crying about their poor PC sales and then blaming it on piracy or customer misunderstanding/incompetence.

"We're, of course, watching this very carefully and paying attention to it," Activision president Mike Griffith said.........
I say SCREW YOU GREEDBAG !!!
i won't be buying this game nor will i be pirating it.I have a lot better games to play than this dumbed down piece of crud.

"We're, of course, watching this very carefully and paying attention to it," Activision president Mike Griffith said in response to a financial analyst, as noted by Kotaku. "But we're not overly concerned about it."

They don't really care about PC gamers.. I think this is a test to see how it will effect their overall bottom line. Face it, the majority of the sales went to consoles with COD:MW and now they believe they don't need to make any more games specifically for PC. Hence this port.. minimal expense to switch it to PC and if it doesn't work out, then oh well. That is why they are watching this and they are not concerned.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the next installment of the COD series a console only game.

I do not need this game.. I need oxygen, food and water.. but not this game. I wont be buying it, not even out of curiosity. I will take my money and spend it on other things.. maybe a game from one of their competitors.

So, fine.. your not concerned... neither am I. I will still be playing games, just not yours.

Have a nice day IW,

A former customer

They'll be overly concerned in about 120 Hours...

I will pirate this game.

Well look on the bright side, now that they are giving the go ahead to cheat and glitch by not allowing dedicated servers, take advantage of it!!

More cheating occurs on these match making servers they provide. The cheating also goes on much longer then that of a dedicated server where an admin is almost always available in some form.

up up down down left right left right ftw

No dedicated server support?

Think I'll just wait for the hacked version and play single player and continue to play COD: modern warfare (1st one) and COD: World at war online.

I hope Activision can delay PC version badly.

Some people should get fired because of this.