Call of Duty 2 Causing Server Unrest

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."

Comments

Gamers are dicks.

[nekoes]

This has to be some of the most retarded shit I've seen in a while. While I assume it would be nice for the developer to add things like Anti-Cheat, and... well as far I can tell that's all this guy wants. And I guess some patch notes. For a patch. That anyone can assume is coming.

While it's obviously in the best interest for the developer to support their game as well as possible past release, but they're by no means obligated to. Honestly the game came out not even a month ago, and these guys are already demanding an integrated anti-cheat. And this is for a game whose multiplayer component was hardly the main focus of the development time. Did they expect the game to ship with punkbuster or something pegged on to it? And would that have really done the job? This seems like an awful lot of wasted effort for a statement on when they might patch. Is it really necessary to attempt to shut down their own player community to make some sort of statement that could be made in a post on their forums?

It just seems like a cut off your nose to spite your face scenario put forth by some impatient gamers.

In short, it's a dickmove.