Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

[Bodknocks]

He's absolutely right. Fans will pay anything to get their new toys, and the masses aren't organized enough to actually boycott something that looks cool and they-really-want-it-but-there's-one-stupid-thing-about-it.

Let's say that HALF of the people that signed that petition actually boycott the game and NEVER buy it. And lets say that the petition ends up getting 200,000 signatures. That's 100,000 people not purchasing the game because of this decision. By comparison, COD4 has sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Assuming MW2 sells roughly the same amount of copies as it's predecessor (it will likely be more), we can deduct that they are going to lose about 0.6% of their buyers.

So basically, they're not going to cater for less than 1% of the community because they see it as a negligent amount of people. I'm not saying it's logical -- the time and costs of putting dedicated server support into the game would not be great, you would think. But evidentially it costs enough that they don't think they're going to make any significant gains from adding support.

[Letter3]

It's really sad when a company can come right out and say, we don't care about our developers or our customers. We only want to make products that sell in the $100 millions and could care less about cool content or features that won't make at least that. They even pressure their developers to only make features that are necessary and could be exploited for more money later.

AND

They are still a huge company with SEVERAL million customers that they will continue to have. And yes, the signatures represent such a small, small, micro part of their entire company base. Remember, they own Blizzard among many other developers.

/end rant

I <3 Valve; that's why I am buying L4D2.

[Letter3]

More info on MW2 (as if we all care anymore):

http://www.fourzerotwo.com/?p=745

[Slurms Mckenzie]

I would rather burn my money than give it to the whores at Activision. That is all.

[Letter3]

[Bodknocks]

[Slurms Mckenzie]

GOOD JOB ACTIVISION!

[Letter3]

A nice summary of the things they have done to this game. Or should I say haven't done.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009 ... hought.ars

[Spectre]

I will never buy this game. Or play it. Unless as the above article said, someone figures out how to fix all of IW's problems.

[rekon]

Oh, wtf.