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

[Azazel]

Oh dear. I just went from "will buy for the SP experience" to "won't buy it, ever" after reading how it's going to be playing.

I still intend to play through the SP campaign.

[Falwell]

As a follow up to Darniaq's post about the Steam bundling, the magnificent minds at D2D, Gamersgate and Impulse will be completely dropping and boycotting MW2 from it's sales until the Steamfront software is removed.

From RPS..

[schild]

Who cares, those other services are ass comparatively. For a game as meaningless to me as CoD4-2, I hope it sells 10M copies and Valve keeps Steamworks in it and none of those other companies get a piece of the pie and it leads to their eventual demise. Arrogant fools.

[Falwell]

Arrogant fools.

My point exactly, but we don't do stopped doing green.

[KallDrexx]

Did people really care that much about MW1's multiplayer?  The singleplayer was fantastic but I never saw any reason to give a shit about multiplayer, and the same goes for MW2.

[Trippy]

I cared. But I used to play CS competitively back in my youth.

[schild]

The Modern Warfare multiplayer was fantastic.

I will not be buying MW2. The whole situation is bullshit.

[Venkman]

The Modern Warfare multiplayer was fantastic.

I will not be buying MW2. The whole situation is bullshit.

This. Both parts.

[Engels]

Did people really care that much about MW1's multiplayer?  The singleplayer was fantastic but I never saw any reason to give a shit about multiplayer, and the same goes for MW2.

Dude, are you serious? MW's entire point was the multiplayer. The SP, considering it was a CoD variant, wasn't awful, but it wasn't exactly Deus Ex.

I'm starting to wonder if the devs over at IW are not the same dev pool that did MW1.

[ashrik]

Did people really care that much about MW1's multiplayer?  The singleplayer was fantastic but I never saw any reason to give a shit about multiplayer, and the same goes for MW2.

How many times did you play through the single player campaign? I think I went through it twice, as the multiplayer experience has definitely become the selling point of this game.

[KallDrexx]

How many times did you play through the single player campaign? I think I went through it twice, as the multiplayer experience has definitely become the selling point of this game.

I played through it once, and still enjoyed it.  I honestly don't know anyone in real life who played the multiplayer, we all bought it for the single player.

To each their own.  *shrug*

[waffel]

zach426: What was your guy's logic behind removing the lean feature for PC, a feature that was a mainstay from all of your previous call of duty titles?

Mackey-IW: The game is not balanced for lean.

Butcher the PC version of the game by removing key features present in every other FPS released in the past 10 years?
Check
Butcher the multilayer of the PC version?
Check
Restrict digital sales to steam only to help combat that evil, evil piracy?
Check
Charge an extra 10 dollars for an inferior product to punish those who pirated games in the past?
Check

and..... they expect people to suddenly stop pirating games because of the reasons above rather than pirate it more?

[Hoax]

This game keeps on giving, fuck these clowns.

When do we get to have a thread about the growing anti-mod community bullshit that started relatively recently?  These companies are so full of shit with their, oh you can't host a server or mod anything or make your own maps.  But don't worry we're going to have DLC available from day one so you can pay more. 

[Amaron]

BTW the whole bandwidth thing isn't the big problem with peer to peer.  The problem is mostly about server location and the fact that their stupid matchmaking is going to start throwing people together from all over the place.   Dedicated servers are put near backbones whereas even some schmuck with amazing cable service is on the ass-end of a long line of routers that is the equivalent of internet BFE.

[schild]

That letter could've been hilarious. But then, Edward is from Jersey.

[Azazel]

I read through some of the articles linked from that. Randy from Gearbox really needs to shut the fuck up.

[tgr]

I still intend to play through the SP campaign.

All 7 hours of it? 

I'm wondering where games went from providing 40+ hours of entertainment, to less than 10, and this was considered fine.

[Comstar]

I'm wondering where games went from providing 40+ hours of entertainment, to less than 10, and this was considered fine.

The reviewer for gametrailers.com complained that Dragon Age: Origin is too long. This was considered a negative aspect of the game in that it took at least 40 hours to finish.

[jakonovski]

All 7 hours of it? 

I'm wondering where games went from providing 40+ hours of entertainment, to less than 10, and this was considered fine.

Get with the times d00d, MW2 single player campaign is 5 hours long.

[tgr]

Sweet leaping jesus. "wah wah wah lots of arcana wah wah wah lots of dialogue wah wah wah ye gods it takes so long!" "only party due to the game's borderline absurd length. which might feel novel at times, but ultimately feels out of place at this day and age"

"At this day and age" my arse.

I'm getting the feeling that in maybe 5 years time, games will require pads, and if we're going to spend more than 2 hours to finish our latest $150 game, we're going to be outraged at the lack of progression.

[Surlyboi]

Played through the SP.

Five hours. A solid five hours? Hell fuckin' yeah. But still five hours nonetheless.

This game was made for the MP. I played at least five hours running around in the MP. Having it gimped on the PC side is still pretty lame.

[Draegan]

I usually don't do FPS mutliplayer, hell I don't do FPS most of the time anyway.  I still bought COD4 on the PC and Xbox for multiplayer.

Clownshoes this game is.

[waffel]

Bro of mine that bought it said the MP was unplayable due to hosts in other countries making the game lag to hell.

[Megrim]

Bro of mine that bought it said the MP was unplayable due to hosts in other countries making the game lag to hell.

[Sky]

Great meme usage, a rarity.

[Nonentity]

They really went all out for the PC installer.

[waffel]

Just be happy you have mouse support and ingame keyboard chat.

[Nonentity]

I think I could actually download this faster.

[Teleku]

I bought the First Modern warfare (finally, I know) just the other week on a 50% off steam sale.  Not worth the money.  I burned though the majority of the game in one god damn sitting.  That should be a crime.  The fights were very cool and all (well, the American parts were with the massive combat going on.  The SAS parts were just standard squad based FPS battles).  I guess I'll fuck around with multi-player some, but fucking christ I can't believe the game was that short.  This one is suppose to be even shorter?  That makes me not want to touch it even ignoring all the other amazingly stupid shit I've seen noted in this thread.

[Sky]

Hey, they author on the PC. It's their development platform.

[waffel]

Shit is really hitting the fan on the IW forums. Looks like the PC forum is unmoderated and, well, people aren't happy.

[ffc]

[jth]

Something you probably already read about, but fits this thread:

No dedicated servers for Rage, Carmack believes dedicated servers are something of a remnant of the early days of PC gaming.

[Tarami]

Until we know more what Rage's gameplay is like in multiplayer, it's irrelevant what Id is planning on doing with it. Many games work fine without strictly dedicated servers, even on PC.

Edit: gramah.

[waffel]

Competitive FPS games work without dedicated servers?