MW2: Our game has changed forever

Fail - modern warfare 2

Right......another topic to write an essay on.

This is by far a massive shock to anyone who has a general interest in the upcoming release of MW2.

There are a few ways to see this news. I will highlight them all.

1. From the console players view.
This is probably a benefit or general good news, Firstly Console players are more casual or "fun only" players. Firing up the Xbox or PS3 to enjoy a few hours of Online play etc.
Console play in South Africa is a bit of a problem. Firstly there are no local registration servers for Xbox Live, which is required in order to hold a Gold Membership which allows you to host games or Private games and allows you to play for more than 1hour with certain games, or allows you to play online at all.

Secondly if you want to play with a Live account you have to commit fraud in order to do so, I.e. fake your residential address with 90210 Beverly hills' or some other Google result post code. So even if you can play online better with the console or search games better or they have re invented TCP/IP so that Latency on packet transmission no longer interferes with client/server send/receive transitions and there is an element of telepathy that would allow you to play without Lag (and for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za ,Lag is the issue when playing online on an international server or with a 9600 modem, it's what happens when you shoot or press your fire key, and nothing happens for 5 or 6 seconds and then the sound bit plays and your find your dead or respawned already because it took 3weeks for the electron leaving your network card to travel to Kansas or Washington through 28000km of copper and fibre and come back.) We wouldn't be able to play online anyway without committing fraud and juuking the system to get an Xbox live Gold Membership which undoubtedly it will require in order to play online.

And lastly on the first point for the view of a console player. I play Xbox 360 titles like Gears of War, Halo 3, Halo Wars etc online with some frequency.
What I hate and I use hate to its full meaning and definition as defined in the English dictionary. What I Hate about online play with all Xbox titles, is this. You cannot see what latency a server you are joining has firstly. If you use the quick match option (or I don't have any intelligence or knowledge about anything that really matters in the world of communication i.e. the internet and am unfamiliar with terms like Host a Game or Find a Game etc) The retarded game will connect you to some random bunch of players 1 from Spain, 1 from Ethiopia, 1 From China 3 from America and myself - Nobody knows what they are doing and so someone is playing in the water and shooting his own team mates because he is actually a 2 year old from China, and hasn't learned to use his thumbs yet, the Indian is blasting voice messages over the game at a massive volume in a language I have not yet been able to master, as I can't find time to go for lessons in-between my enema and pile removal sessions. And lastly the latency is so bad that the game actually finished 9mins before I actually joined and the players I am shooting at are actually in bed already and its random noise and port access from viruses that make the character appear to be playing against me - I know this because 2 seconds later South Africa finally gets the data sent from Canada where the game was hosted and I suddenly warp through 20mins of game play and end up dead.

2. For the PC player who is a casual gamer.

See point 1 and replace all info on Xbox 360 or PS3 with PC or Mac..........oh wait a Mac doesn't really do so well with games and not many people have Mac in SA so just replace with PC.

P.S on point 2.

As a PC player, when you as a casual gamer want to go to say, RAGE or a mates place and hook up a few machines in a garage and play a LAN ( and for the (and for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za , a LAN is a Local Area Network, it is what existed before the WAN or Wide area network which gave birth to the internet eventually, but unlike the internet this is a baby network, you take cables called fly leads, which is the same thing you use with your ADSL router, it's an RJ45 connector which you plug into a HUB or Switch, which unlike your router doesn't dial anywhere......a HUB is like a traffic officer on the road, he has a Big Yellow vest on and he guides traffic between you and another PC which also plugs into the HUB. Yes 2 computers or more on the same LOCAL network) You won't be able to because oh yes, that right, the server will be in Alaska and where I am sitting, which means there is no point to playing on a LAN and I should have stayed at home.

3. For the person who doesn't even know what MW2 is.
Next, Delete, www.google.com because they don't give a continental and think it's a propaganda add for them to buy War Bonds for the Fagan conflict and Iraq Victims of carbombings.org.

4. For the people who play on a computer more than casually. Call them Avid Gamers.

This is a bit odd, I like playing with South African players, they talk the same, understand me and we can joke about whets happening in the country too sometimes. Remember when Zama took an anti aids shower..... ha-ha.
Now I can't choose what server I want to join, no more SGS servers in the list which are easy to spot and have a sub 100ms ping so I know they are local and I won't have LAG, (and for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za , please see point 1. where I explain LAG for you).
Also I may get involved with playing more regularly with other people playing often an I might get quite good. Maybe we start a new group/clan/community and play as a new clan. Hey we may even enter a tournament for the first time as I see SGS and Do Gaming and IGame are hosting tournaments, maybe there will be one for MW2 and we can enter..........oh wait MW2 doesn't have a Dedicated server option so oh well this won't be possible.

5. For the Professional Gamer/ or for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za , what they deem "HARDCORE" gamers.

When you start to play on this level, a Game is no longer a Game or something you do cos you have nothing better to do, it's a Hobby, a Sport. You don't only play for fun, you play for the same reasons people run the comrades or compete in sports or study. To get better.
South Africa has a hosted server base on SAIX alone of 170 Servers, then there is IGame, Axxess, Vodacom, etc who host even more servers, so let's conservatively say there are over 250 Hosted Servers in South Africa. These range from 10 - 50 people capable of playing on each servers. so let's say conservatively. These servers cater for 7000 players in South Africa.
Now yes that doesn't sound like a massive number. But let's move that to a country like Australia, which caters for 40 000 players, now let's take America, which caters for 350 000 players, then China who caters for ........... oh wait they are commies and you would probably be shot for communicating with other likeminded people and inspiring to treason.

These servers are hosted at a cost to each business offering the service, and done so for no charge.
Now why would companies do that...... Host a service which uses bandwidth and not charge for it. Oh, maybe it's so that likeminded local players can join and play against other South Africans on various levels of skill.

You will see in many games, take Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare or Call of Duty - World at War that there a whole range of servers available. (and unlike people in group 1, 2, 3 who don't know what a server list is, we can find a server with players of a similar skill, and level) Including servers named ###### Clan ###### etc. 1 - 30 whatever the game is.

So this must mean that there is competitive gaming, which means that a multitude of people play on a competitive level, like the soccer team at your local sports ground does against a soccer team from a non local sports ground. Oh and there is the 2010 Fifa world cup as well which is when different country's play against each other........well believe it or not (and for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za specifically) there is even something called the World Cyber Games, held in a different country each year, where the best of each country's players arrive to compete against each other.
 
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Continued from Above..........

So why would Competitive level players not want to play with Beginner players, well that simple, because you wouldn't enjoy the experience and neither would the "HARDCORE" gamer. Hence MOD's are released to prevent stupid/lame/unbalanced/pointless options or perks or weapons in the game to be removed. Allowing only weapons that provide a platform to compete on skill and tactics above the player who can't get any kills because he is really only a 9 month old baby and is actually sucking on the mouse and managed to launch the game join a server and select a team purely by complete accident.

Now for the author of the post http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=198510 or whomever wrote that random mind fart on Gaming.co.za. He/She said that they played on the PC version of COD4 then bought the Xbox version of the game and then never played on PC again because they didn't know who to join a complicated server based system and kept being called a Noob and hated the experience because he/she just died all the time.
And that he/she were playing against people with Hacked/Pirated copies etc.
To this I answer, - I am so glad that you bought an Xbox and have not come back to using the PC, because I don't think people with special needs should be allowed to be exposed to the internet and a device that requires higher brain activity and some denotable intelligence.

Hacked/Pirated copies of any Xbox 360 Title, PS2 / PS3 can be found at most traffic lights and people are running a tonne of pirated games on their consoles and playing online. So sorry, but yes these retards are everywhere.

To the comment of being called a Noob - Because you are a Noob maybe ? is why you where being called a Noob.
Also known as Newb, Newbie, as in a new player, or Noob in a more defamatory manner, which means basically the same as being called a retard or moron. The kid on the playground with the water pistol who keeps spraying you from the same place every time you walk past even when he knows that he gets beaten by a group when he does it, or the same as the retard Noobs who steal our telephone lines and sell the copper. They are the unexplainable in our population - unwanted.
Either way, when you are called a Newb/Noob you have 2 options, either play more and ask questions to more experienced players which will result in you getting better. Or stop using your aim bot, or wall hack and change your gameplay to conform to the accepted practice or piss off out of the server and go play you Xbox 360 version with Wang Xu from the quai gon province.

Either Way this news is massively devastating to this community the point 5. community.
Globally Competitive level gaming keep playing a game for years after its release which keeps marketing for the company up and alive, as well as ensures an avid following of the development company.

Not providing a means for competitive level gaming is like releasing an entry form for the comrades which says you can't run it, it must be done in a car and you can do it whenever you want to and you won't get anything for it. Pointless, and Console Competitive gaming is for NOOBS, who couldn't use their AIMBOT in the PC version anymore cos they were banned and now use the built in AIMBOT that came with the game cos a controller is for 9month old babies who need something to suck on , and for people who want to play a game when suffering from a hangover at 14:00 on a Saturday afternoon after a heavy nights drinking.

So basically the biggest community of players, and the only customers of Infinity Ward who will continue playing the game long after the Console players have stopped. Or while the console players still play it because they are saving money for the next R1000.00 game they buy, but only play it because they don't have another game to play coz they are too bloody expensive.

This is the worst idea in the long sad and illustrious history of bad ideas.
Well done you Noob CEO/CIO/CFO/ Hedge Fund/ Money grabbing morons of the Global Capitalist economy.
Its you're stupid greed for money over delivering a great service that resulted in the what can only be called the greatest Brown Fan incident the world has ever seen. Stupid Accountants, stupid banker accountants........look what you have done, you and your minions. I bet if we were still blissfully unaware of how criminal the banking systems were and still are I would not have written this. Because Infinity Ward wound not have needed to make more money over delivering a better product, but at the moment the retard board of the company probably have major financial issues, and are over extended on at least 3 properties. The result is stupid business decisions like this.
Remember when Apple came along and started with the idea of offering a PC for everyone and IBM who were the only real company around at the time stood up and shouted from the roof tops that this would never work. Ladies and gentlement i present the modern day equivilent.........No dedicated servers in the latest release of a line of games dominating the dedicated servers online.
Well done..........What a Winner........Your all going to be famous...............can you smell something..........i can its called Downsize then Takeover......BWHAHAHHAHHA.
This is going to be on the internet for a while, failblog.org, Famouslastwords.com, worldsdumbestdecisions.com, ElectronicArts.com once they buy Activision

No........that a little harsh.................... I would also think that wishing Brain cancer on you is a bit too spicy for you.

Well then let's say this.
I'm not going to buy this game - it's a failblog.org entry for Modern Warfare 2 from me.
You have just done the same for the +/- 1 million gamers worldwide who play competitively in a clan globally. You will also have your title fall away into distant memory like that game..........you know I can't remember what it was, all I know is that the multiplayer sucked cos you had to play on servers overseas........oh yeah LEFT FOR DEAD was its name.

That game rocked but sucked and will ultimately fail resulting in Duke Nukem Forever for Call of Duty (whateverthehellwecallthenextonemaybeitwillbecalle dcallofduty7costhatshowmanydaysaweekwebilluforusin gourgame)

Good luck and go crawl under your desk and die. I recon your stakeholders sell off your company to the lowest bidder after you go bankrupt as a result of mark to market profits you put on the sale of this game which will fall hopelessly short of expectation.

Good bye
 
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Hmmm, your English could use a little brushing up Anuerism (it's not terrible, but it won't be winning any awards either ;)). That said, I did enjoy reading the article :).
 
ROFL>.. Good read. I didn't want to because I thought it might be a bit long winded. but after I started I couldn't stop! Well Done! :)
 
NICE! Anuerism, you should put that in a blog! Really insightfull
 
well at 3:30 in the morning, i wasnt in my best form a wrote the whole thing in the text window so word didnt underline where i was going wayward of acceptable english.
Soz......

Hope you enjoyed it though. Stupid infinity ward
 
My Letter to Robert Browning

You know I only got and played Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare A few months ago, when I had A Graphics card good enough to play it, And I enjoyed every minute of the single player campaign, But that was nothing compared to the simply AWESOME experience I have had playing this game over LAN and internet, Then I found out about the Modern Warfare 2, And I couldn’t wait, I followed every bit of news on MW2 I could find….

As with the rest of the PC gaming community I found when I found out about no prestige edition it was sad, but We figured that MW2 would be good enough anyway.

Then when the price hike…. That was a shock, but yet again, we where keen to pay for such a quality game.

But Now the No dedicated servers was the last straw…. I can’t justify some much money for a 6 hour Single player campaign and NO multiplayer LAN for PC, I found I was not alone, I signed the petition, and I’m surprised that Activision/IW is still giving the finger to over 100000 fan who have supported them. And now only 16 players! If I wanted to play on console I would buy on and play CONSOLE games, But I won’t because I am a PC Gamer, but apparently You don’t want me or the millions like me to buy your products.



SO I urge you to change if you want to keep your IW.net go ahead, just leave the dedicated servers in, because really you are not doing us or you any favors.

I have been watching a lot of forums and etc. and do your relies with this move MW2 will probably be the most pirated game of all time? And a cracked server will probably be out shortly after release if this Activision/IW continues with this rubbish

So please stop ignoring the community and not comminuting on this subject and give us the updates, and please just leave the dedicated servers in.

I haven’t preorder but I WAS planning to buy MW2, SO please give me a reason to buy it again, I’m not interested in a system to for console gamers and casual gamers


Regards
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Tpex said:
My Letter to Robert Browning
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You know I only got and played Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare A few months ago, when I had A Graphics card good enough to play it, And I enjoyed every minute of the single player campaign, But that was nothing compared to the simply AWESOME experience I have had playing this game over LAN and internet, Then I found out about the Modern Warfare 2, And I couldn’t wait, I followed every bit of news on MW2 I could find….

As with the rest of the PC gaming community I found when I found out about no prestige edition it was sad, but We figured that MW2 would be good enough anyway.

Then when the price hike…. That was a shock, but yet again, we where keen to pay for such a quality game.

But Now the no dedicated servers was the last straw…. I can’t justify so much money for a 6 hour Single player campaign and NO multiplayer LAN for PC, I found I was not alone, I signed the petition, and I’m surprised that Activision/IW is still giving the finger to over 100000 fans who have supported them. And now only 16 players! If I wanted to play on console I would buy on and play CONSOLE games, But I won’t because I am a PC Gamer, but apparently you don’t want me or the millions like me to buy your products.

SO I urge you to change this if you want to keep your IW.net go ahead, just leave the dedicated servers in, because really you are not doing us or you any favors.

I have been watching a lot of forums and etc. and do your realise with this move MW2 will probably be the most pirated game of all time? And a cracked server will probably be out shortly after release if Activision/IW continues with this rubbish

So please stop ignoring the community and not commenting? on this subject and give us the updates, and please just leave the dedicated servers in.

I haven’t preordered but I WAS planning to buy MW2, SO please give me a reason to buy it again, I’m not interested in a system to for console gamers and casual gamers


Regards
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Spelling Nazi!! haha I do agree with you though.
 
Tpex said:
DAMN word failed me..... But then again M$ is a FAIL
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haha again I have to agree! They installed the new office on my pc at work and I've never used such a slow piece of software in my life... If you have mapped drives and you bring down the folders drop down it freezes for about 2 minutes.

But I digress...

If we look at all the fails in the PC gaming world right now 90% of them have some sort of connection to Activision... Coincidence?
 
Tpex said:
My Letter to Robert Browning
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St3baS said:
Spelling Nazi!! haha I do agree with you though.
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saddest thing of all? this letter will undoubtedly be sent straight to his spam folder. who also forgot to mention that we live in south africa and how we are going to be affected by ping:(

anyway atleast you tried. and how you get his email?
 
iron man said:
saddest thing of all? this letter will undoubtedly be sent straight to his spam folder. who also forgot to mention that we live in south africa and how we are going to be affected by ping:(

anyway atleast you tried. and how you get his email?
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aj maybe, but its woth a try...

its on his site, www.fourzerotwo.com, I think
 
scotty777 said:
$8.85 million in potential loses!
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too bad they dont give a sh*t about 9 million dollars. they probably gonna use iw.net to advertise aswell. and i bet only 100 or so people out of that 150k will not buy the game. all talk and no action:( well if theres no dedicated server then personally its a waste for me so im def not buying it
 
iron man said:
too bad they dont give a sh*t about 9 million dollars. they probably gonna use iw.net to advertise aswell. and i bet only 100 or so people out of that 150k will not buy the game. all talk and no action:( well if theres no dedicated server then personally its a waste for me so im def not buying it
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pessimist :P i cancelled 3 copies myself, and i'm one lowly Saffer.

LOTS of people are not going to buy. i'm ok, i have LOADS of other games to play, including MW1 and W@W
 
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