Just played some multiplayer had 80-120 ping. Could aim on people but this could be due to anti lag. Game is fast paced like cod4.. with improvements. graphics seem the same. im running on medium not sure what my fps is obviously. I have a 9600gt asus geforce. 2.6 dual core intel and 4gb of ram but running vista so yeah. only 4v4 at this stage not enough people online i guess.

I think the recoil isnt good enough to easy on full auto to nail some one. Sucks not having the lean function! Going to take a while to get used to.

game runs smooth. Ping isnt to bad considering. Host migration is a real turn off if u know what i mean. Guess it comes down to if u can live with it or not. At this stage host migration is the most annoying part

I think you're referring to the competitive community rather than the pc gamers in general .. not everyone plays this game seriously .. and they are the ones who need the ded servers + mods more than anything .

Can't say they have big difference. Most competitive clans like FFF, JEDI, Bf.Nut came from BF2142/BF2 because CoD4 killed its community

Although I agree that you don't have to advertise other game here. Just chillax bro

Just installed the game. Went staight to multi player. It feels like an arcade console shoot em up to me. Its awful.

IWNet is basically the xbox/console game finder which after people connect it chooses a host. The best part is, if someone leaves, the game pauses while i chooses a new host.

IW, I waited, I stuck with you. I believed you. I hoped you'd get it right. I hoped you knew what you were doing.

You failed me. A long standing customer. I will never buy a game you make again unless you fix this mess.

er... the shop guys just sent me an sms that COD MW2 is in stock now, now I'm struggling either go collect it or not...

TF2 will last forever, the best game i every bought.

I'm waiting for the reviews on MW2 PC. I'm sure that many games site like gamespot, ign, and etc are aware that this is probably the review that most PC gamers will be waiting for. I just hope that they are total honest in their assessment.

I hate to break it to you, but they DID release a major gaming title & it was a hit.

Too bad for us die-hard holdouts, though.

"have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million dollar franchises"

honestly, most of us do spend that amount of $$$ for games...
new games are roughly around that price especially consoles (omg i said the taboo word!)...
and some of them are that short (if u remove out the re playability part)...

wut i would want is quality over quantity...
5 hours of awesome experience > 20 hours of something that is not memorable or is of a AAA title quality...
not every1 want to milk out their game as much as they can...
i enjoyed ZoE 2 despite finishing it in 4 hours back then and i still count it as one of my favourite game of all time...
same as mgs4 etc...

as for those boycotting, keep up to ur words and dun even bother pirating it...
its hypocrites like these pirates that started this in the first place...

noobs will be noobs. i would love to see them fall.

If you can't see what exactly people are pissed about, and instead want to generalize/simplify into two distinct clumps labelled "like" and "don't like" then I'm not going to bother continuing this discussion as I don't want to confuse you even further.

Cheesenium, unless u really have experienced the game first hand I avoid ranting. I have put 5 hours into MP. And lag is not an issue like Falk makes it out to be. We are not playing Quake 4 or UT 2003 we r playing MW 2.

i am paranoid.

I had the detection via avira yesterday and the whole game stops and dced.... not sure am i the only 1 dced.
if this is true, hackers are able inject codes into packets and launch it.. i guess play private matches at the moment will be safer.

Check out the next reason why IW developers are all liars and cheaters

I would be more convinced if fourzerotwo purposely told steam to add the playing hours to show that he actually "cared" for the PC gamers.

Simmering problems between Activision and Modern Warfare 2 development studio Infinity Ward — involving the creative direction of the Call of Duty series — may have come to a head with yesterday's dismissal of IW's two studio heads.

The reasons for the dismissal of Jason West and Vince Zampella, the top two men at Infinity Ward remain murky a day after the news broke that there was a shake-up at the Activision-owned studio. The publisher, in a financial filing, only vaguely referred to "insubordination" and "breach of contract".

But in the past 24 hours the long-rumored problems between Activison and IW have come a little more clearly to light. A source familiar with the studio told Kotaku that Infinity Ward has long bristled at the notion of any studio other than IW making a Call of Duty game. The studio heads' renewed 2009 contract with Activision affirmed that only Infinity Ward would be allowed to make Call of Duty games set in the modern era, according to the source.

Infinity Ward's two most recent games were 2007's Call of Duty IV: Modern Warfare and 2009's Modern Warfare 2. In between, Activision-owned Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World At War and is expected to making 2010's Call of Duty, keeping with Activision's annual Call of Duty cycle. Infinity Ward, according to conversations Kotaku has had with employees at the studio in the past, is a one-game studio and one committed to two-year cycles. For IW, making a Call of Duty annually would not have been consistent with the studio's current structure. (Tensions between the studios flared up in public online close to the release of World at War.)

Kotaku has continued to hear from sources that Infinity Ward wanted to make either a new intellectual property or a game set in the future — the two projects might be one and the same — but that Activision resisted that.

Tensions between Infinity Ward and Activision had intensified in recent months to the point that IW would only deal with two employees from the publisher, according to Kotaku sources.

It's unclear if disagreements about creative direction are what finally led to West and Zampella's dismissal. But those disagreements appear to have contributed to the frailty of the relationship between publisher and studio that led to yesterday's breaking point.

Keep checking our round-up on news on Activision vs. Infinity Ward as news breaks.

Publisher Activision announced today new "strategic plans" for the Call of Duty franchise, announcing a new developer for the shooter franchise and confirming the departure of key Infinity Ward staffers.

Activision announced it will form a "dedicated [Call of Duty] business unit that will bring together its various new brand initiatives with focused, dedicated resources around the world." It plans to expand the Call of Duty brand "with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit" placing a focus on "high-margin digital online content and further the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models."

As previously announced, Activision will release a new Call of Duty game from series co-developer Treyarch, responsible for Call of Duty 3 and Call of Duty: World At War, this fall. Developer Infinity Ward is still scheduled to release two downloadable map packs for Modern Warfare 2 this year.

In 2011, Activision will release another new game in the Call of Duty series from an unspecified developer. It also announced plans for another Call of Duty-based title from developer Sledgehammer Games, the recently formed studio lead by Dead Space creative leads Glen Schofield and Michael Condrey. The Sledgehammer-helmed title will "extend the franchise into the action-adventure genre."

The previously mentioned Call of Duty business unit will be led by Philip Earl, who currently runs Activision Publishing's Asia Pacific region. Activision Publishing's Steve Pearce, chief technology officer, and Steve Ackrich, head of production, will lead Infinity Ward on an interim basis. Former studios heads Jason West and Vince Zampella are no longer with Infinity Ward, officially.

"Activision doesn't comment on HR matters related to its studios," said reps when asked for comment about the departures and allegations of insubordination. The two former Infinity Ward heads are said to have butted heads with their publisher creatively over the direction of the Call of Duty franchise.

Activision Publishing also announced that the company is "in discussions with a select number of partners to bring the franchise to Asia, one of the fastest growing regions for online multiplayer games in the world."

Jason West and Vince Zampella, the men at the centre of this week's drama at Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward, have filed suit against Activision over claims they are owed "substantial royalty payments".

"Activision has refused to honor the terms of its agreements and is intentionally flouting the fundamental public policy of this State (California) that employers must pay their employees what they have rightfully earned," said the pair's attorney, Robert Schwartz, of law firm O'Melveny & Myers. "Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st."

West and Zampella are coming out swinging. "We were shocked by Activision's decision to terminate our contract," Jason West says. "We poured our heart and soul into that company, building not only a world class development studio, but assembling a team we've been proud to work with for nearly a decade. We think the work we've done speaks for itself."

"After all we have given to Activision, we shouldn't have to sue to get paid", Zampella adds.

Interestingly, in addition to seeking the unpaid royalties, the pair are also after "the contractual rights Activision granted to West and Zampella to control Modern Warfare-branded games". Whether that means they want to make "Modern Warfare" games without Activision, or would seek to have the brand buried if it's without their input, is unclear. We'll update when we hear more.