Modern Warfare 2, Prestige edition, -or- hey, blow your wad on this!

[lac]

Some multiplayer footage.

Unboxing the prestige edition.

[NiX]

At the end of the multiplayer footage, are they implying there's a 3rd MW coming after this?

[schild]

Well there is, obviously.

[LK]

Customized Killstreaks gave me a huge nerd boner. 

[Surlyboi]

Arise chicken, arise...

New trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBFCZ6dfuE

[Megrim]

False advertising. I didn't see any grenade indicators.

[Malakili]

That footage reminded me of this: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=287

[Surlyboi]

That footage reminded me of this: http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=287

Ok, I'll bite... How?

Don't get me wrong. Funny comic, but yeah, how?

[Malakili]

Because I mostly imagine the game being played by drunk frat boys. 

[LK]

No, that's Halo. This one will be played by teenage spazzes who parents show their love by ignoring them in favor of letting a M-Rated video game occupy their time.

[NiX]

No, that's Halo. This one will be played by teenage spazzes who parents show their love by ignoring them in favor of letting a M-Rated video game occupy their time.

I want my fucking chocolate milk!

[Malakili]

No, that's Halo. This one will be played by teenage spazzes who parents show their love by ignoring them in favor of letting a M-Rated video game occupy their time.

I want my fucking chocolate milk!

I can't corrected.  Either way though.

[Hoax]

There were no frat boys playing CS, it was mostly asians who say niggah too much, at least where I'm from.  I've avoided all this WW2 bullshit so I can't say what's changed but on the TF2 servers I liked there were no frat guys or kiddies.  But I played alltalk servers with mods who will ban people for anything they feel like.  I think the problem is playing fps games on console, hell playing online multiplayer on console is probably asking for it no matter the genre.

[NiX]

There were no frat boys playing CS, it was mostly asians who say niggah too much, at least where I'm from.  I've avoided all this WW2 bullshit so I can't say what's changed but on the TF2 servers I liked there were no frat guys or kiddies.  But I played alltalk servers with mods who will ban people for anything they feel like.  I think the problem is playing fps games on console, hell playing online multiplayer on console is probably asking for it no matter the genre.

[Hoax]

You always make the bestest points

[NiX]

Were you saying MW2 is WW2? Cause, that's what I found funny.

[Hoax]

No I was saying I haven't played all those WW2 games, so I don't know what their frat boy ratios may be.  I did buy the one futuristic Battlefield game and I will play this because it looks good.  I am aware that MW means not historic recreation, which is the only reason I'm posting in this thread, game looks good.

[caladein]

PC edition now $60.

This is even more funny in light of the four-packs for Borderlands and L4D2 at $33.75/person.

[Malakili]

PC edition now $60.

This is even more funny in light of the four-packs for Borderlands and L4D2 at $33.75/person.

  I'm so happy I've never cared about Call of Duty series.

[Azazel]

This may be the first game in years that I will have torrented, rather than buying the original (Instead of just bitching about them and threatening to). 

Especially since the MP has little to no interest for me.

[Venkman]

Update.

According to this interview* as mentioned on NeoGAF, Robert Bowling of MW2 has confirmed will not support dedicated servers. It will be matchmaking only based on IWNET, and private matches. There will not be a server list.

It's discussed at 1hr and 41mins.

I'm not sure how this will affect me yet. But it's got a number of folks in a tizzy. I would be curious to learn the reason behind this decision. Yea, the games sell a hell of a lot more copies on consoles. However, how many console multiplayer sessions are going on at any given time vs PC multiplayer? With CoD4 still clocking 12k+ servers at any given time, and nothing but bitching from console FPSers about matchmaking, I am thinking the balance is skewed like this:

Sales: Console > PC
Loyalty: PC < Console

Maybe they think turning off the controls players get on dedicated servers mean more people will by DLC packs or something. But they would get that on the console installed base anyway. PC DLC buyers are probably an incremental addition only.

* Ustream. Never been there before, but it's annoying

[Engels]

No dedicated servers? What the fuck else does one do in this type of game but play on dedicated servers? I haven't done anything else, aside from the few hours of single player. I don't understand. I'm upset. I'm frightened. I had counted on this game...

[Tarami]

Holy shit, that's the most retarded thing I've heard in weeks. What the fuck is wrong with them? Don't they know ANYTHING about how communities work in PC shooters? Oh God. In a tizzy, alright.

[Malakili]

This is exactly the type of thing I've come to expect out of console-first development of games.  Seriously. 

[caladein]

The guy doesn't seem to know a whole lot about a change to the very nature of PC multiplayer shooters which pisses me off even more.  Ugh.

[Megrim]

Update.

According to this interview* as mentioned on NeoGAF, Robert Bowling of MW2 has confirmed will not support dedicated servers. It will be matchmaking only based on IWNET, and private matches. There will not be a server list.

It's discussed at 1hr and 41mins.

I'm not sure how this will affect me yet. But it's got a number of folks in a tizzy. I would be curious to learn the reason behind this decision. Yea, the games sell a hell of a lot more copies on consoles. However, how many console multiplayer sessions are going on at any given time vs PC multiplayer? With CoD4 still clocking 12k+ servers at any given time, and nothing but bitching from console FPSers about matchmaking, I am thinking the balance is skewed like this:

Sales: Console > PC
Loyalty: PC < Console

Maybe they think turning off the controls players get on dedicated servers mean more people will by DLC packs or something. But they would get that on the console installed base anyway. PC DLC buyers are probably an incremental addition only.

* Ustream. Never been there before, but it's annoying

Welp, they just lost a sale.

[Engels]

While you can create 'private' games where you customize the rules and then invite people, but it sounds like the entire subindustry of having a leased server only running CoD of your clan's flavor is essentially over.

I guess it may be possible to 'host' a private game on your 'pc' which is really a connection to IW, but its not clear how the game would be visible to the average player, as it is now. Can someone who's played on the IW console matchmaking comment?

[Trippy]

Huh. I guess it's a good thing I didn't preorder this game.

[Pennilenko]

This will be the first FPS ever that I will not buy.

[Azazel]

OK definately not buying this now. Way too much bullshit happening around this game. The MP holds little interest for me but I would still have fucked around with it on servers of my choice. Definately going to get hold of an "evaluation copy" instead and go through the 6-8hour SP campaign, then uninstall.


http://www.mcvuk.com/news/36018/Activision-breaks-silence-on-pricing
http://www.destructoid.com/modern-warfare-2-enjoys-huge-uk-price-hike-costs-54-99-140062.phtml
http://www.destructoid.com/modern-warfare-2-gets-10-price-hike-on-pc-152049.phtml
http://www.n4g.com/News-411473.aspx

[schild]

Of all the crimes EA is guilty of, dicking around like this and deciding any given game was worth more than THE ACCEPTED MSRP FOR A GENERATION ($49.99 for PC for all eternity / $59.99 for the current gen of consoles) are things they never ever did.

This is pure money-grabbing and shameful to watch.

[Falwell]

This will be the first FPS ever that I will not buy.

Ditto, it just means a few extra days of whoring in TL / Borderlands before L4D2 goes live.

[schild]

L4D2 will have to pry those loot generators from my cold, dead hands - which I suppose is someone ironic.

[NiX]

I'll be buying the MW2 Console, so if anyone wants a copy of MW2 for $60 CDN, let me know.

[Goreschach]

Well, with this and Dragon Age trying its hardest to faceplant, I'm down to one single day 1 purchase this season. Borderlands needs to hurry the fuck up.