MW2 taken out and butchered
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18 Oct 2009, 01:57
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One of the most highly anticipated game releases of all time is approaching with the next installment in the Call of Duty series. However, the world may now have ended for the competitive CoD community who were awaiting a fresh breath of air to their scene. Unfortunately Infinity Ward have 'done a fritzl' by making the most inbred decision in gaming history. Today the Infinity Ward community manager confirmed that since CoD4 was released the guys at IW have lost their mind after announcing the following changes to the game.
General
- IW partnering through Steam is what you will see in the future. Matchmaking is not through Steam, but IW.NET is run in conjunction with Steam.
- GSP's will no longer be renting out servers. Meaning there will be NO clan servers.
- No PunkBuster. VAC will be used as an anti cheat.
- Retail distribution: Pre-orders will get a disk. Or you could order from Steam.
- DLC may now need to be paid for - not confirmed.
- Piracy was only a small reason for going to IW.NET - not the whole reason.
Clans
- No more clan servers. Private matches, replace clan servers.
- Listen servers will connect to each other.
- IW.NET/Steam will replace the community server admin
Competitive gaming
- Competitive gaming has changed forever.
- It might be possible in the future for IW engineers to load a "competitive" setting on IW.NET, but it is far from a guarantee. It might also never happen.
Modding
- Modding the game is now very much in question. Fourzerotwo had no info on modding. However, it appears that there will be no mods or maps for MW2.
- Modding in SpecOps? Unknown.
Bullet points borrowed from Cadred. Time will tell whether these decisions will prove fatal to the game.
pls explain me this in 1 sentence
this is about cod? and tags says wolf l?!??!?!
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NICE TOSSIIIEE! first u say that we need to filter our shittos so we cant see the shit what we dont want to see!(yo dawg) and then u make some tagging errors! jeeehaaa
Are they fucking retarded or something?
Looks like we will be playing Aion for another 6 months before we can get a hold of Brink
i sincerely hope someone cracks the ps3 code so i can download games for that too ( yes i'm willing to spend 300€ on a bluray writer just to fuck those idiots a tiny bit in the ass)
SIGN SIGN SIGN :D
golden times of "PC gaming" are over, it's all about consoles nowadays... sad sad... :(
I put my hope in ETQW and it failed, i put my hope in CoD:WaW and it failed, i put my hope in Wolf and it failed... i guess it will be the same with CoD:MW2 now... this time i won't even buy it if this is true... gonna wait 1 or 2 days what ppl write about the competitive part of the game... then i'll decide
sad rly... maybe gaming industry makes me finally quit and retire... something my girlfriend hasn't managed so far :D
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or maybe i just sticked with the wrong companies.. ID & Activision ...
+1
xD
if you did the same for the games you mentioned before, im sure you wouldnt have bought them :)D
although i must admit wolfpro seemed promising in the start, but the game itself was just so shit a simple mod couldn't fix it.
i still hope those stuff mentioned by IW will only be in the console versions and there will be dedicated servers in the PC version... if not it is definitly a fuckup...
i suspect this is just cause infinity ward just cant be bothered with the on line shit and are outsourcing it to steam who are already gear, badly, to support online games !
If a game would be a car, the game engine would be the car engine, the game logic would be everything else. With the game logic you could make a Smart look like a Ferrari (like for example ET:F and TC:E did with W:ET, and the original CS did to Half Life!).
Call of Duty has always gotten the "CS" like mod support, in which mods act like a layer on top of the original game, meaning you are limited to hooking into the game and changing things, instead of being able to fully rewrite key parts of the game.
Now CoD4:MW2 will run on Steam, but it will remove the ability to run dedicated servers. I don't know if you ever played a game on a console, but they are the best example to demonstrate how locked this model can be.
Mapping is a different story though, I think W:ET, CS and CoD all offer the same amount of mapping support.
brink all the way weeeeeeeeeeee
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw
The requested topic does not exist.
hmm i would rly like to see nobody buying this game for pc
i mean they can't just do what ever they want if ppl won't buy this they will see whos got zeh powah :>
i mean rly cmon... same with wolfenstein..stop supporting crap or ridiculous decisions what so ever..(even if u like the series)
nothing will change until that..
it's the consumers fault...if u buy the game u say...hey it's allright and they thingk...yay see,we've done everthing right...ppl still buying it
Was this Activision or IW's decision though? Seems odd that the actual developer would endorse such lunacy however makes more sense for publisher to push such ideas.
Not surprised though, IW has been losing their touch with the PC community ever since they got acquired by Activision
That's the only good point.
IW are censoring PC community responses on their forums. A 1400 pages topic was erased together with a lot more commotion...
This sucks.
otherwise somebody wanted to see the game bleed before the release :D
the petition is a joke... they betrayed u and now u get down on your knees and beg for changes i mean cmon
self esteem
DON'T BUY THE GAME
just let them down..
Also for patches? Are we supposed to pay for bugfixes? :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
With all the new games failing on the competition community...people wont give up on ET that easily. =)
Second of all, players need to play somewhere, so Activision will either host all servers themselves or use a P2P system. The first situation means there will be a limited amount of players who can be online at the same time, and there is a big chance that there won't be any low ping servers around for you to play on
As for P2P... If you ever downloaded from Kazaa or Limewire you might have noticed your download speed is never stable. Guess how you notice this in a P2P game? By a ping which is less stable than the current worldwide economy.
how is it bad that finally pb gets shut down by important games?
still made my cancel my pre-order. will check it out first.
i really had a good laugh, fags.
cauz i thought both things were kinda true.
*parties DOWN*
FU IW!! U have finally made a gr8 decision on this gr8 franchise \O/
stick to et =/
They've gone mad...
No more mods, cfg's,private clan servers :(
The only good thing is that there is another anti-cheat programm
Recalls the good times @ Et and cod2 (trickjump, and other funny mod servers)
Due to PC gamers losing all faith in developers and new titles in recent years I can see the warsow model/re-developed old titles being the mainstay for FPS communities such as this. It just seems all the evidence is there that there is no place for the competitive gamer in the profit focused world. Let's face it, these games will still sell year after year due to the competitive communities making up only a minimal part of sales.
The real question for communities such as this is more one of which direction to go in regardless of shit new releases and the lack of faith therein.
So true =D
just wow.
from one of the petitions
in the commerce there is a simple rule
You don't like it?DONT BUY IT
Probably they did us a favour ... If u think about it, mw2' s cod4 with new maps but it cost 40 euros...
since when you rebuy the same game for a map pack?
i have all the cods and i dont care at all if competitive multiplayer will or wont be supported
i play on cod 5 public servers too and i still have fun even if people say it's a dead game (maybe dead for kids... that slowly filled and killed the competitive scene...)
rtcw old times when netgaming was cool, are gone.
:)