Call of Duty 2 Causing Server Unrest

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 28, 2005 @11:37AM from the players-are-revolting dept.

Despite the excellent gameplay, Call of Duty 2 is causing a lot of internet unrest among the players who want to participate in the online multiplayer component. GamePolitics reports on a thread from the official site. From the site: "Server admins - those mysterious men (and women) behind the curtain who keep online gaming venues humming - are fed up with the PC version of Call of Duty 2. So fed up that they are planning a 24-hour shutdown of COD2 servers on Deember 16th if publisher Activision and developer Infinity Ward fail to address their complaints, which include the lack of an anti-cheat system."

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Re:Affects only servers run by gamers by Azarael · 2005-11-28 12:02 · Score: 3, Informative

You have a point there, but the power to boycott rests in a fairly small number of hands. CoD probably has less than 2000 servers and it wouldn't take that much to take a pretty large chunk out of those. Also, I'd say that the majority of game servers are directly run by clans and user communities and as a whole they are a pretty close-knit bunch. That being the case, I can easily see this catching on and gathering momentum.