MW2: Our game has changed forever

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bashandslash.com said:
Fourzerotwo was on our BASH webcast this morning and he had a few surprises for the PC community.

Here are the snippets:

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We're doing a lot on the backend to make the game accessible for everyone.
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There is no delay for the PC version of MW2
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There's prestige mode
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Jason West at the MP event, said that he was dead on, on the matchmaking servers. We've been building a system on the backend called IW.NET.
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You are completely reliant on IW.NET. There are no server lists. There are no dedicated servers.
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You have private matches where you can customize the game
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You cannot put MW2 on a dedicated server.
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This is the first time we've ever done something like this and the team has huge plans for what IW.NET develops into.
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Customizing your game...you have quite a few options in a private match
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You're getting same game (as in Console), plus matchmaking and private match.
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Server admin point-of view, NO DEDICATED SERVERS

I've summarized some of my own thoughts from the cast here:

General

* IW partnering through Steam is what you will see in the future. Matchmaking is not through Steam, but IW.NET is run in conjunction with Steam.
* GSP's will no longer be renting out servers.
* No PunkBuster. VAC will be used as an anti cheat.
* Retail distribution: Pre-orders will get a disk. Or you could order from Steam.
* DLC may now need to be paid for - not confirmed.
* Piracy was only a small reason for going to IW.NET - not the whole reason.

Clans:

* No more clan servers. Private matches, replace clan servers.
* Listen servers will connect to each other.
* IW.NET/Steam will replace the community server admin

Competitive Gaming

* Competitive gaming has changed as we know it.
* It might be possible in the future for IW engineers to load a "competitive" setting on IW.NET, but it is far from a guarantee. It might also never happen.

Modding

* Modding the game is now very much in question. Fourzerotwo had no info on modding. However, it appears that there will be no community mods or maps for MW2.
* Modding in SpecOps? Unknown.
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Source: http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=745&Itemid=111

There is a petition to get them to include a dedicated server.
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LOL I was wondering how long it would take for someone to create a thread about this whole debacle.

Glad to see it finally made its way on MyBB as well ;)
 
Om only gonna buy this after the price has gone down. Hopefully before new years when my rig is complete.

Its looks way awesome but hope there is modding
 
Promod is coming out for this one but I think they said between 6 months or a year later.
 
I'm canceling my order.....

Guess we all going to be playing Call of Duty 4 for a while.


This is like that episode of south park where Jorge lucas and steven spielberg rape indiana Jones. Infinity Ward just raped 10000's of PC gamers around the world :(

Edit. I signed the petition. I don't know if that will help....Infinity Ward spent a lot of time on IW.net(doubt they willing to change that) and also a similar thing happen with Starcraft 2 and Lan support. Everybody signed partitions and still no Lan support.
 
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Does this mean no Saix server for mw2? Wow, this is going to blow hard.
 
At first I thought this was just a sick joke, but reading up on this it seems that its true, my god, we are truly screwed arent we?

Sad sad day for pc gaming everywhere, gonna have fun playing mw2 with 600ms ping.
 
saffakanera said:
Does this mean no Saix server for mw2? Wow, this is going to blow hard.
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yup, no dedicated servers

3 pre-order copies for the PC about to be cancelled and replaced with two copies for xbox

saffakanera said:
Sad sad day for pc gaming everywhere, gonna have fun playing mw2 with 600ms ping.
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haha! yeah good luck knifing or sniping with that lag
 
HOW THE F@*( DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW THE F$#KU&$ DID ACTIVISION THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?!#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Po89jitpio[aghdfcxl;cxd
 
Well OK, after calming down, I realised we can pirate it, and hope for a dedicated server hack. Thank god for that.

Congrats IW, you are going to release the most pirated PC game of all time. F*$($ers.
 
why did I have a feeling this was going to happen... hahaha all I can say is that LANs are going to be huge in South Africa when this comes out... but everyone going to have pirate versions :P
 
THIS SUCKS!!!

saffakanera said:
Well OK, after calming down, I realised we can pirate it, and hope for a dedicated server hack. Thank god for that.

Congrats IW, you are going to release the most pirated PC game of all time. F*$($ers.
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dude you think that SAIX or IS or iGame are going to host a hacked dedicated server? They will never do such a thing.. They would get into too much crap... the only possibility is everyone playing on Hamachi or GameList but we're pretty screwed there aswell because none of our home-lines will be strong enough to host a huge game.
 
St3baS said:
dude you think that SAIX or IS or iGame are going to host a hacked dedicated server? They will never do such a thing.. They would get into too much crap... the only possibility is everyone playing on Hamachi or GameList but we're pretty screwed there aswell because none of our home-lines will be strong enough to host a huge game.
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Ever hear of a game called dota, you play with a hacked war3 client, its hosted locally? COD4 pirated was hosted by several local sites a few times now, its gonna happen dude.
 
Sigh!!!! WTF! Do they want us to pirate the game? Well if they insist I will oblige :p
 
saffakanera said:
Ever hear of a game called dota, you play with a hacked war3 client, its hosted locally? COD4 pirated was hosted by several local sites a few times now, its gonna happen dude.
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Dota isnt hosted server side... PVPGN is hosted on the server and then people host their own games so its their bandwidth being used up and everyone connects directly to them... The only people who have enough bandwidth to pull this off is one of the major hosts... Any pirate server that comes up will be hosted on some guys private line which isnt going to be enough and after a week it will be closed down because of the amount of bandwidth being used with pings of probably 80 - 120.
 
Where you people not reading clearly(Don't mean to offend anyone)? There will be NO dedicated Servers. Igame / Saix cant host anything(Cracked or Legal Servers). All servers will be hosted from IW.net

If there's Lan support we will play with Hamachi :)
 
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