Digg.com - Modern Warfare 2 boycott.

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I was speaking to a games dev the otherday, he got back to me after talking to his industry contacts, and seemed pretty confident this was a viral marketing campaign and that dedicated servers would appear (perhaps as a patch). Still not convinced though, and I do wonder if that was the case how many people would be so annoyed they would still boycott the game anyway.
 
RaMDOM said:
Well that video of the level looks messed up. :eek:

I mean why would they think that it is a good idea? The devs have said that you can skip it, but I do not think that it can be classed a computer entertainment (excuse me if I sound like the Daily Fail - I certainly would not move to ban it. I would and am, choosing not to buy it; for various reasons as it turns out (4 and counting (price rise, none dedi servers, Koticks' attitude, and now this))).

I have never seen slaughter on that scale (of innocent NPCs) within a video game before. I know that people will cite Hitman and GTA for the murder of innocents, but at least you had choice as to whether to do it. I think the object of that level is to kill, i.e: you don't have a choice.

sick imo.

Sorry to derail thread, but seems like the place to post about this.
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I'd absolutely love to play that, looks a lot of fun.
 
HazardO said:
I was speaking to a games dev the otherday, he got back to me after talking to his industry contacts, and seemed pretty confident this was a viral marketing campaign and that dedicated servers would appear (perhaps as a patch). Still not convinced though, and I do wonder if that was the case how many people would be so annoyed they would still boycott the game anyway.
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I highly doubt that. If it is true, then whoever came up with the idea for this "campaign" needs to be sacked. A campaign isn't supposed to make people cancel pre-orders!
 
HazardO said:
I was speaking to a games dev the otherday, he got back to me after talking to his industry contacts, and seemed pretty confident this was a viral marketing campaign and that dedicated servers would appear (perhaps as a patch). Still not convinced though, and I do wonder if that was the case how many people would be so annoyed they would still boycott the game anyway.
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tbh, enough people will buy the game to give them the funds to make a dedi server patch. I don't understand why they can't do both! They could even make money from dedi servers like americas army does, you have to pay extra to make your server ranked etc.
 
This could be the most popular patch of all time, if it happened. It wont come from IW thats for sure, but they'll be so many gamers working hard at patching DS to this game I wouldnt be surprised if we dont see one around xmas time.
 
Then we pirate the game?

I am all for purchasing a game if the devs have attempted to make an effort, this is not the case?

I'd rather pay the modders.
 
Having still kept my pre-order through all this I can safely say, if modder patched DS into MW2 I'd be downloading straight away....who wouldnt?
You can see it all over the internet, "MW2 the post pirated game of all time".
 
Who was the genius that thought that would be a good idea?

I won't buy that locked down garbage, they've efficiently killed online portion of the game and that's the only thing that matters to me, SP part of Call of Duty hasn't interested me since CoD1, which was a brilliant game and still my favorite in the series.

Matchmaking is like shooting in the dark, hoping something hits, you have no control.

Server lists for FPS and Lobbies(rooms) for racing and fighting games are the way to go. When you "refresh" and see a list of servers or lobbies you get an overall overview of the game and what's going on online with it, you can pick exactly what you want and exactly where you want to go, add to that great ping which is oh so important.


I don't want to be part of a clan(no time for it) but I am regular on a clan's(Mugs) server and I am a part of the community, it's like belonging to a club, it's fun joining the server playing while enjoying a conversation with the regular players.

This song describes the feeling....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD8ljNobUys&feature=player_embedded

With matchmaking, who knows where you will wing up and each time you will be playing with strangers.

They also increased the price and removed the mod support. I don't play mods much but still, there are lots of people that do and they removed another choice.

As for piracy....... lol, gimme me a break, piracy is a boogeyman, something to blame for bad sales, and CoD4 sold a record amount, which means that AV/IW are greedy. There are very few cracked servers, maybe 5% out of total. CD-key check is perfect, it's not intrusive and it works.

The same lol goes to hackers aswell. I get accused of hacking regularly, many people online blame each other and call each other a "hacker" but the truth is there are also very few hackers out there, I haven't met one in a really really long time, players just need an excuse for getting "pwned".

Basically the setup that CoD4 had was perfect and they fixed what wasn't broken at all.

If they wanted to make things easy for casual players they could've just added those playlists or a "Just play" button, which Battlefield 2 has, without removing anything at all.

Also let's not forget the DLC, IMO the biggest reason for this change, and the removal of mod support, they want more more more money..........no surprise really since console customers seem to pay for anything and everything.


Basically IW got too cocky and they are too greedy, they thought they could get away with such crap, well get a reality check IW.

You can lock down the consoles all you want and sell those DLCs but KEEP PC GAMING FREE.

I'm not buying MW2, not because of the boycott but it simply does not suit me, online component is broken.

I love CoD, gaming and games but loving games does not mean losing common sense.

Honestly, if they continue this trend I just hope they stop releasing Call of Duty for PC altogether and just stick to consoles.

Screw you IW!
 
Frenzy said:
Of course it makes sense. Every leecher on a torrent is a POTENTIAL sale.
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It doesn't make sense. Either they are not all potential sales (ie there are people who would not under any circumstances pay to buy the game downloading it) This is quite obviously true.

OR Every person who downloaded it is a lost potential sale, even though they would never buy it. Therefore by extending the same logic then every person on the planet is a potential sale.

It doesn't make sense - you're nitpicking at the semantics instead of discussing the issue.

Anyway, to discuss the issue: Millions of pirated copies definitely would include some lost sales. But any argument that every pirated copy was a lost sale is the argument of an idiot or a PR merchant who is not interested in the truth. Are you either of these?
 
Apparently a leaked copy is already available, AND IT'S THE 360 VERSION! HAHAHA!!

If this was done to cut down on PC piracy, then I love that the first pirate copy available is on the 360!
 
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