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Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses $1 Billion Mark; Dedicated Servers What?
The Opposable Thumbs blog is running an interesting article contrasting everything Activision did "wrong" in creating and marketing Modern Warfare 2 with the game's unqualified success. Despite price hikes, somewhat shady review practices, exploit frustrations, and the dedicated server fiasco, the game has raked in over a billion dollars in sales.
"There was only one way to review Modern Warfare 2: on the Xbox 360, in Santa Barbara, under the watchful eye of Activision. Accepting the paid trip, along with room and board, was the only way you were going to get a review before launch. Joystiq noted that this broke their ethics policy, but they went anyway. Who can say no to a review destined to bring in traffic? Shacknews refused to call their coverage a 'review' because of the ethical issues inherent in the situation, but that stance was unique. The vast majority of news outlets didn't disclose how the review was conducted, or added a disclaimer after the nature of the review was made public. This proved to Activision that if you're big enough, you can dictate the exact terms of any review, and no ethics policy will make news outlets turn you down."
That game sucks. It's all campers and noob tube launchers, glitching, sprinting, knifing cocksuckers, air strikes, helicopters, FUCKING LAG and the annoyances of its multiplayer matchmaking system. These people don't know the meaning of the word sporting. The object is to get 25 kills so you can end the match with a nuclear strike. Oh boy, what else did you get for your fucking birthday?
They have ENABLED these lamers to rack up the kills with all the crap in this game. It's utterly ridiculous. The glitches that some of them exploit are still not fixed either.
I should NEVER be exposed to those pukes... if it were a real Call of Duty game I'd be playing on servers with like minded people.
Sales means nothing to me. Like I give a shit. People are just mindless herbivores. The numbers of online players on the PC is dwindling. It was all the hype for a month or so, but now it's getting harder to find a game and when you do, it's just annoying assfucks anyway. I only played it to get level 70 so I'd have all the weapons choices for private matches with friends. As it turns out, I have one friend that plays it and our schedules rarely are compatible. Everyone else I know is boycotting it.
Now, I have had a few very good runs playing with good people, but they don't last long. 2 or 3 matches and then something always happens to break up the group and it's back to annoying twats again.
The single player modes are very nice though. The campaign gets worn out after a few runs through, but the special ops missions are better than playing with the public.
This is the last game I am paying for, ever. I am very bitter about this game and the general trends that I am seeing from game vendors towards PC gaming.