Pay More For Less [MW2]

I'd download games of steam more often buy my connection is 1.5mbps, which maxes out at 165kB/s and i only have 25gb of data per month... I wish telstra would make it so that games from steam don't count towards downloads (yes they can do that!)

If MW2 gets dedicated servers i may just buy it.
 
Enjoi said:
A clan I used to play COD4 with has boycotted MW2 entirely. I think they had somewhere around 80 members. I am sure plenty of other clans are doing the same thing, since IW has made clanplay impossible in MW2.

I don't understand what IW gains from doing this... They are completely destroying their name, which will have a huge effect on sales of any title they release in the future.
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I am trudgeing through the IW forums right now for the thread started asking clan leaders to post if their clan are not buying and how many players they have, nearly 150 pages though, and not knowing if the nazi IW mods have deleted it, I may be disapointed and there for a while :P

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omgomgomg, while going through the forums I came upon possibly the greatest thread ever (or atleast the best first page, didn't read it all), enjoy the wise thoughts of this guy:

http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=135786&sid=80026b5e016881fcccacbb71d3e6c925

well, after going through 134 pages and having a bit of a laugh at some threads, turns out Adolf "Infinity Ward" Hitler has taken down yet ANOTHER post of people giving their opinions on the game and what they will do about it and what they want from it, so the clans thing isn't there any more, but basically it showed how 200000+ people in clans weren't going to be preordering the game any more
 
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200k is a lot of people... now where is that picture of the xbox 360 performing a certain action on infinity ward?

(for those that haven't seen it, it's quite funny but innapropriate to post here)
 
linkin93 said:
200k is a lot of people... now where is that picture of the xbox 360 performing a certain action on infinity ward?

(for those that haven't seen it, it's quite funny but innapropriate to post here)
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no, 200k isn't alot of people, but I believe I am right in saying 1 retail copy of the game is $60 new.

Now on top of that, 1 in about every 10 people bout 2 or more copies, so that makes it about 220000 copies now no longer sold, 220000x60= $13.2m, which is alot of money in anybodies books :)
 
lol you are all full of it, your all going to buy it , at least when the price drops... theres no way they will go more than a half of a year before there are dedicated servers.... Im still trying to figure out why they are doing this... I mean the real reason, do they save money?
 
mtb211 said:
lol you are all full of it, your all going to buy it , at least when the price drops... theres no way they will go more than a half of a year before there are dedicated servers.... Im still trying to figure out why they are doing this... I mean the real reason, do they save money?
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they save time AND money, it took them less time to make because basically what they did was port the xbox version over to the PC, that is just taking the game and making it compatible with PC and upping the graphics a bit, but they said, I know, lets be really lazy and keep the matchmaking system and program a simple program called IW.net to muck up online and put matchmaking on PC :D

Normally porting to PC is ok, it is the same game after all, but normally the companies will take out matchmaking, like what they did with CoD4, but IW got too lazy this time and mucked up big time.

And you are right, when the price has dropped and it is on steam weekend deal, I will buy it, it is worth £15, but it isn't worth £40 :)
 
Archangel said:
I'd still like to get this game, jsut for the singleplayer. (never played CoD4 online either.)
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Kinda sad but neither have I :S


Though if I get it I will buy it used after a few months of release. This way they still feel the pain in their pocket and I still get to play it while feeling good that I dented them (even if its minor) on sales.
 
Twist86 said:
Kinda sad but neither have I :S


Though if I get it I will buy it used after a few months of release. This way they still feel the pain in their pocket and I still get to play it while feeling good that I dented them (even if its minor) on sales.
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CoD4 online is possibly the greatest online experience you can get from a game, with the exception of WoW, certainly the best FPS, but it is close between CoD4 and BF2
 
Aastii said:
they save time AND money, it took them less time to make because basically what they did was port the xbox version over to the PC, that is just taking the game and making it compatible with PC and upping the graphics a bit, but they said, I know, lets be really lazy and keep the matchmaking system and program a simple program called IW.net to muck up online and put matchmaking on PC :D
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I don't think it's so much being lazy as it simply being the smart business decision. Fact is, PC gamers are an ever shrinking demographic. My guess is someone crunched the numbers, and estimated that the extra time and money that it would take to create a separate PC version with all of the features from COD4 wouldn't create a large enough boost in sales to be worth it.
 
PohTayToez said:
I don't think it's so much being lazy as it simply being the smart business decision. Fact is, PC gamers are an ever shrinking demographic. My guess is someone crunched the numbers, and estimated that the extra time and money that it would take to create a separate PC version with all of the features from COD4 wouldn't create a large enough boost in sales to be worth it.
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Agreed there, it's really what's good for the company (IW) and not what's good for PC gamers, since pissing off PC gamers isn't really going to put a huge dent in their sales.
 
So that's what happened to Star Wars Galaxies... As for best COD, I still like World at War, mainly for Nazi Zombies!!!! :P (Nothing like a burning running zombie coming at you...)
 
DCIScouts said:
So that's what happened to Star Wars Galaxies... As for best COD, I still like World at War, mainly for Nazi Zombies!!!! :P (Nothing like a burning running zombie coming at you...)
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Play Dead Space. :P you can shoot the limbs off zombies that come at you. very entertaining. ^_^
 
I'll still buy it. Single player looks amazing, there's a lot of new features in the multiplayer, alright it's completely messed up for clans, but it will still be a really fun game. Why not use COD4/WaW for matches and COD MW2 for extra fun, or don't, and stop whinging, buy it or don't I'm really sick of hearing about this.
 
they take multiplayer out of the equation and alot of people are just going to pirate it for singleplayer.

I wont be playing if for multiplayer if i do get it, but i dont want to because i dont want to help send the message to activison blizzard that thats okay
 
Dazzeerr said:
I'll still buy it. Single player looks amazing, there's a lot of new features in the multiplayer, alright it's completely messed up for clans, but it will still be a really fun game. Why not use COD4/WaW for matches and COD MW2 for extra fun, or don't, and stop whinging, buy it or don't I'm really sick of hearing about this.
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you saw the first post and yet you carried on reading the thread and even took the time to post in it even though you knew it annoyed you?
 
Here's my plan:

Not buying it on release, going to wait and see how non-dedicated servers perform.... plus make sure the multi-player is even good. To those worried about no dedicated servers, there's no denying it was a dick move by Infinity, but there's always a chance they could release it later as a download. Back in the day you had to download a dedicated server application if you wanted to host games. Not saying it will happen but something to think about.
 
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