Digg.com - Modern Warfare 2 boycott.

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anticonscience said:
Hands up I admit, I read too much into what you said.

Just a little bemused why you chose to bring Chavs into the discussion.
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The discussion was about 'console monkeys' and how fair that term was.

IMX, its very fair. Most console players are what you would probably describe as 'monkeys'. This doesn't mean everyone is - it just means there are so many of them that people like yourself and I are lost in the figures.
 
You would have thought there would be atleast a proper official responce to all this noise so far.

I bet the moderators on the IW forums have started pulling their own hair out.
 
Hutchy said:
You would have thought there would be atleast a proper official responce to all this noise so far.

I bet the moderators on the IW forums have started pulling their own hair out.
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This is what ive been waiting for, all this commotion and IW hasnt even rolled over to give a response. I guess the response will have quite an impact depending on what they say so they are taking their time...
 
Shack: By the way, have you changed the way multiplayer games function on the PC at all?

Robert Bowling: PC will be the same as it always was.

Shack: LAN support as well?

Robert Bowling: LAN support, yes.
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Fail!
 
Simple case of IW wanting a slice of Steams cake.

IW are simply ripping the fans off for as much money as possible with all these Special Bundles, now no dedicated servers for MW2, have they pushed the fans limit too far?
 
I don't care about CoD or Modern Warfare.

But any decline of dedicated servers, which are a huge strength of the PC environment, is enough for rage!
 
Indeed, Its already happened with OFP2-DR and now COD6 MW2 - what next ?

The GSPs wont be happy, the community isnt happy - where will it end ?

:(
 
~TB~ said:
Indeed, Its already happened with OFP2-DR and now COD6 MW2 - what next ?

The GSPs wont be happy, the community isnt happy - where will it end ?

:(
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rypt said:
You are talking crap there.
COD4 sold 13mil copies (http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-sells-13-million/) as of May this year - this is total PC + Console sales.

2007 sales figures:
TOTAL 7mil (http://investor.activision.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=289631)
XBOX: 3.04mil (http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6184847.html)
PS3 is 1/3 of XBox using the both Nov 07 and Jan 08 figures, so it sold 1.01mil (http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6184008.html & http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6186077.html)
PC: 7mil - 3.04mil -1.01mil = 2.95mil

If you upscale this to the total 13mil figure, then you get 5.47mil PC sales and 5.65mil Xbox sales.

Yes, clearly it only sold 1mil for PC and was pirated
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X360 alone sold over 8M copies of COD4 for starters & PS3 is around 4M so obviously that does not leave much for the PC does it! These figures below are not pie in the sky guesswork like yours but actuals from the Activision accounts!

2009:
http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-09-47364

Look at the last 2.5 years and PC is stated as no more than 7% of total sales so anyone can work out from that if consoles are accounting for 75-82% of Activision total sales then that does not leave much of a percentage for the PC to represent does it ;)

9months to Dec 2007:
http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-08-8141

Segment/Platform Mix:
Console $1,683,204,000 73%
Hand-Held $192,557,000 9%
PC $115,870,000 5%

Jan-Mar 2008:
http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-08-31387

Segment/Platform Mix:
Console $446,595,000 74%
Hand-Held $26,742,000 4%
PC $40,198,000 7%


3months Apr-Jun 2008:
http://investor.activision.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-08-50976

Segment/Platform Mix:
Console $450,099 69%
Hand-Held $103,747 16%
PC $ 24,716 3%

Look yourself and you will see the same sad story for PC games on most of the major publisher accounts. EA say less than 14% of their income is from the PC.

I love the PC as a games platform but the reality is that more PC gamers pirate than buy games & or PC games just do not sell anywhere near the levels that X360 + PS3 shift so the PC will continue to decline and the consoles will continue to receive all the attention. I absolutely hate that as I have thousands worth of hardware doing nothing but that's the way it is and like so many others I am penalised for buying games by the pirates who do not support the developers :( PC has over 220M gaming capable machines yet cannot sell a fraction of the consoles :eek:

Console gamers nowadays think nothing of paying £100 for CODMW2. I spoke to a crazy bunch in a high st game shop earlier today (PC games are hard to find in ther now!) and they were not bothered about paying that much or more to get their CODMW2 fix :eek: This is who Activison are pandering to not the 7% PC game market :rolleyes:
 
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