Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Steam Pre-Orders OPEN - ROFL

I wouldn't pay £34.99 for this with dedicated servers gone, no way!

Luckily I still have my £24.99 on pre-order and I cba to cancel. I suppose with it capped to 16 players it'll be easier to play without quite as much spamming... (Would still have liked 32 player+ dedicated servers though :( )

I'll post back in the official thread when I get it and let you all know how well it works, or doesn't ;)
 
I must be the only person who signed the petition, agrees with the community's grievances, but will be buying it anyway. The SP in COD4 kept me entertained for days and days, and I'm keen to see whether IW.Net is as bad as everyone's saying it's going to be.
 
I'm not ordering it or buying it just yet - I feel like I want to play the SP on release, haven't had a good, new FPS in ages but I want to make my "protest" vote against IW and their rubbish IWnet system.

May decide to wait until this drops in price, as I have a feeling it might if initial PC sales are low, which I hope they will be.
 
I must be the only person who signed the petition, agrees with the community's grievances, but will be buying it anyway. The SP in COD4 kept me entertained for days and days, and I'm keen to see whether IW.Net is as bad as everyone's saying it's going to be.

This
I'll be giving it a go still as well
 
Activision may take note if sales are lower than expected.

The only way I can change anything is to not buy this turd of a game.

I emailed Activision and got no replay so STUFF em.
 
lol at most will just buy it anyway why even sign petition :(

i understand theres not much to play but basically your just patting them on the back for shafting you :p
 
Pre-ordered for £24 a while back. I won't be cancelling because of the MP as the SP is all I'm really interested in nowadays.
 
I must be the only person who signed the petition, agrees with the community's grievances, but will be buying it anyway. The SP in COD4 kept me entertained for days and days, and I'm keen to see whether IW.Net is as bad as everyone's saying it's going to be.

You must've been playing through it at a snails pace! It was the shortest (albeit really good) single player game (bar Portal but not by much) that I've ever played. Couldn't believe it when it was all over. Never really got into the whole multiplayer thing at the time either as I had one of those mobile broadband things and my ping was always over one second. Like you however, I can empathise with my fellow gamers as this is a major blow to the community but having never really got into the online side of things I was only buying this for the single player anyways.
 
The SP always going to be a good 8/10 for 10 hours worth of entertainment, and I'll pass opion on MP as and when I've given it a run, it might not be as bad as every-one is making out, then again it might, who knows. I gave OF2 a go and yes it was a turd online, I shall do the same with MW2.
 
You must've been playing through it at a snails pace! It was the shortest (albeit really good) single player game (bar Portal but not by much) that I've ever played. Couldn't believe it when it was all over. Never really got into the whole multiplayer thing at the time either as I had one of those mobile broadband things and my ping was always over one second. Like you however, I can empathise with my fellow gamers as this is a major blow to the community but having never really got into the online side of things I was only buying this for the single player anyways.

Nah, just played the campaign through like six times on all the difficulty settings. Only took 6 hours first run through which was disappointing, but it was so well put together it was fun to play again, which is unusual for me because I get bored of repetition.
 
Nah, just played the campaign through like six times on all the difficulty settings. Only took 6 hours first run through which was disappointing, but it was so well put together it was fun to play again, which is unusual for me because I get bored of repetition.

Same, well as in I get bored of playing through again so have only done it a couple times with huge gaps inbetween.

But I also will be getting it at some point mainly for the SP, as COD games have generally always had the best SP experience(or amongst the best) since the first game(barring COD 3, and possibly 5). MP is an add on, I've always regarded MP as an extra, with most games MP being dull as hell, flat out crap or too easy. Theres a few exceptions, UT's single player was always an add on to the multiplayer obviously, its nothing more than a tutorial for MP.

COD 4 MP was incredibly poor anyway, I can't see why people are getting upset over consoley MP(spammy, uber quick and pointless overcrowded maps with "special attacks") being made more consoley. IF CS:S 2 was released without dedicated servers, sure, I'll join the march through London in protest, or at least photoshop a pic of my head onto someone in the march to make myself feel less lazy about not actually going.

But I wouldn't protest Halo 3 eventually being on the PC and having consoley MP with it. Thats all assuming the matchmaking would be awful or the friends list way of doing private games for clans and whatnot is terrible. IT doesn't seem to have occured to anyone that, when you join a nice game with a 10ping for you, and everyone in there has a sub 50ping, that maybe theres more than enough people with decent connections to play the game P2P without lag. It might work great, I think one of the downfalls of it was OPF2 just came out with incredibly badly done MP thats laggy as hell, the difference being, the whole game is a mess of crap, expecting the MP to be perfect would defy logic. A good company that makes good games, might just make a decent MP without dedicated servers, or, it might be turd.

Of course if IW screw up the single player in the same mannor, lose all the atmosphere of previous Cod incarnations I'll be angry as hell, as long as the single player is a fantastically atmospheric, fun to play decent storied single player, well thats the COD franchise right there.


Even so, pre-ordering on steam for more than you can get the game almost anywhere else is just daft.
 
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