QUOTE(H@H@ @ Nov 5 2009, 09:43 PM)
I'm actually very very curious as to how they felt that they could get away with all this.
Did they really think MW2 would be like the FPS of the decade? That at the end of the day, we're all useless sods with no self-control and we'd end up buying the thing regardless of all this shafting?
Like perhaps they had some graph with list of features matched up against potential RAGE from PC community if removed and then they slowly chipped away at it before it hit some baseline whereby the "potential" sales projections would be too low (Or rate of piracy becomes too high because they believe we'll just pirate it if we won't buy it)
Saying this is bizarre would be an understatement and I'm really really anxious to see how this all plays out.
The way i see CoD franchise isnt much different from NFS before EA split it to a few developers.I think they just gonna milk it ridiculously every year and the quality just keep dropping every year.People still gonna buy it regardless of the quality,as long as they hype it.
MW2 wont be the FPS of the decade as the necessary facilities needed arent there anymore,but it will be enough to keep Kotick fat and rich.Thats what they care,not whether it will be played by gamers for years to come.
I believe that the reason that they implement IWNet is to control MW2's multiplayer life span,if they feel that people shouldnt play MW2 multiplayer(example:MW3 released) anymore,they can close their servers down.Dedicated servers would be much harder to close down as it's run by players.NFS was doing that every year until Shift hits.
In short,CoD is the new NFS series.While NFS have changed it's direction to be a better racing game.
I for one,wont be buying this,as im putting my MW2 money for other games made by people who care about PC.Not some shameless company that tries to rip off PC gamer's money.IW have pretty much lost my respect after screwing me around with buckets of bullshit.
Added on November 5, 2009, 10:03 pmQUOTE(wanvadder @ Nov 5 2009, 09:59 PM)
That was a sarcasm because IW claimed that there is a mystical creature that cant browse server list.
Robert Bowling actually believes that looking for a game in a server browser has a learning curve.

Seriously,how hard can it be to find a server off a server list?
This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Nov 5 2009, 10:03 PM