yeah right. i don't know what logic you have there in your mind.
how on earth by striping off the special editions from the PC would actually benefit IW??? since the items are already there (for the consoles), by putting them together with PC version will need extra costs?

Those who would buy the game will buy it. And since there's nothing practical they could do against the pirates, by taking off "something" from the PC gamer crowd who would/might get the special editions could make extra income???

who knows some of those pirates might be attracted to the special edition items which they can't download and hence turning to the light side?
duh.
quote from bigdownload for clearer view of your "intelligent" logic. 

Endah Parade sells ori? o.O

just 1 day to go... it is coming out!! it is coming out!!!

current time 10-Oct-09 1:22AM

NEWS FLASH.

Rumour smashed!
Looks like we'll be getting our game on time. =]

Or maybe that's to debunk the console rumour. 

http://www.vg247.com/2009/10/15/infinity-w...o-holds-barred/
Yay! 

Modern Warfare fansite bashandslash.com recently reported that Infinity Ward is removing dedicated server functionality from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. With dedicated servers and the server browser that comes with them replaced with custom-built matchmaking, PC gamers will have an online experience functionally identical to console players. Among other things, this means that clans can't run their own servers with their own mods and rulesets for their own private (or public, if they feel like crushing some scrubs for giggles) use.

Predictably, nerds across world took to the Internet with a wailing and a gnashing of teeth that would make the Left 4 Dead community proud. An online petition to bring back dedicated servers at the time of this writing stands at 100,000+ signatures. However -- and this may shock some gamers with advanced persecution complexes -- this move was not made to tweak the noses of the PC community. Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella explain the decision as a conscious effort to improve their game for the vast majority of their players.

"We're just prioritizing the player experience above the modders and the tuners," says West. He points toward the mounting feedback IW has received from PC fans of Modern Warfare who couldn't find a decent server to play on between all of the cheaters, the insular communities, and huge skill level disparities that the original game's community fractured into. "We thought maybe it would be cool if the fans could play the game," he laughs.

IW says that gameplay concerns for the majority of MW2 players are the overriding reasons for the decision. Zampella downplays the obvious piracy prevention angle (IW has cited numbers of people online playing illegal copies of Modern Warfare up to 60 percent). "The Steam stuff helps with the piracy. I don't know that the matchmaking stuff does," he notes. West takes a shot at the motives behind some of the outrage, noting that there's money to made by selling dedicates servers and adspace on them: "It's a little dubious. Some of the people complaining are complaining with their pocketbook."

Again and again during our conversation, West and Zampella hammer the point that hardcore PC players lose very little to this change relative to the returns that casual to moderate fans will see. Clans can set up private matches to do their training or what have you; all they lose is the ability to customize the game on a deeper level with mods and such. Infinity Ward sees the addition of solid matchmaking and community support like IW-run tournaments to the PC as a huge win, and not something that could be done under the old system.

Why not have both? West does not want to include dedicated servers alongside the custom-built backend, stating that it would just "bifurcate the community."

meh...it is just a game. i mean as in the story/SP. like you cant drive a ferrari in real life, but u smash them into the walls in NFS. that kind of satisfaction...that's why gaming is so much fun. you put away your moral, humanity sane, restrictions in real life...you do what you want in game. of course, you do not practice those in the living world. the black hawk down for example, the civillian throws rocks on me, so i shoot them in the face. but it leads to restarting the checkpoint...i could do it all day. that's why harry potter (spelling? i hate kiddy fantasy tho) sells so well because it is frictional. everybody wants magic.

anyways, still, IW must be punished for sort of removing the core MP part of COD, which was the main focus of me getting the game. I did not really focus on story because all I wanna do is to kill things. the more, the merrier. anything that moves must die.
ps:now we could blow up tanks and helis in BFBC2 which I am looking forward to.

better sauce
http://www.google.com/search?q=modern+warf...lient=firefox-a

That's a first: Screwing over the console players to cater to the PC gamers. If this was the intention of IW to screw over Activision, then bravo to IW for the most subvertive pro-PC move EVER

...
Or its just that some press dude leaked it out and Activision and IW are pissed as hell.

Also, traditionally, this was known as a demo.

If a propaganda does not show strength of a nation,whats the point of it then?