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Muckraker  Posts: 281 Joined: 6 Mar 2009     | |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 451 Joined: 29 May 2008     | I, who has no interest whatsoever on multiplayer, now perform a dance of mockery upon you. |
Muckraker  Posts: 315 Joined: 23 Apr 2008    | In one sentence: Eddie is a first class jerk. Emphasizes waaaay too much on multiplayer. Hope Yahtzee gets a sniff of this and puts it on Zero Punctuation. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 522 Joined: 28 Mar 2008     | and this cuts into IWs earnings how? I doubt they are going to care one bit about one gamer who is not buying their game. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 94 Joined: 8 May 2009    | So...why did he do this? He just wasted $60. He won't get anything for it, and he's giving an insignificant amount of money to the developers of Modern Warfare's homely cousin. Aren't gestures that are both wasteful and stupid so noble? |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 788 Joined: 20 May 2009   | I would do the same but I was never buying Modern Grenade Spamming 1.2 |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2206 Joined: 2 Aug 2006    | Seems there's a whole unexploited market of loud Americans to harness. $60 without even needing to make a game! |
Copy Clerk Posts: 116 Joined: 12 Mar 2009  | ZING! thats pretty awesome
lol, making a point costs 10 bucks :D "freedom costs a buck 'o five~" |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 663 Joined: 18 Mar 2009    | TO: Eddie J. (thunderous applause) |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 449 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 |
I want in on that.
I will remind you that MW is the spawn of BF2! Never forget that! |
Press Junketeer Posts: 449 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 |
Well some times dedicated servers will render big (or small) close-nit communities. Which can be really great. You can choose so you NEVER have to worry about lag. Admins can keep control over them kicking and banning idiots, pirates and hackers. If a brilliant mod is released (say Counter Strike) you can create a server for people to play your mod on. This is not only because of the dedicated server deal. It's the anti-mod thing they are doing. A mod like Counter-Strike or Poke 646 can really give you more out of your game. Even some custom maps, skins, stories, quests, models and rules can give your game more life. Removing those things and dedicated servers... well it's like removing 3/4 of the game... THEN CHARGE MORE FOR IT!? What do they think we are? Idiots? Anyway, dedicated servers really improves your chances of a proper lag-free match by... well you are sure to get what you want. Support for dedicated servers and a proper serer-list is the best thing in the world. In peer-to-peer it's really a gamble. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1053 Joined: 1 Sep 2007    | they should make a paypal donation thingy, I'd send them 10$ easily! |
Muckraker  Posts: 336 Joined: 30 Aug 2008  |
Thank you much! That gives me a bit more insight. For the non-PC gamers, it as hard to understand exactly what was going on... I've seen some of some of the mods for COD4 and Half Life/Half Life 2 before, and they looked really fun. I honestly think they are trying to do something they feel is better (or Activision is being a bunch of doucebags as usual), BUT, being a marketing professional myself, they should have listened to your community before making the decision, OR, if they really can't do it from a technological or cost standpoint, at least give that as a reason... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2063 Joined: 5 Jun 2008   |
No they don't, they really don't. I still don't forgive them for Tiberium Wars.
It's about principle, can't just get rid of options for a stupid reason.
A lot of people don't like it when one of there favourite parts of multiplayer online is taken away and replaced with something they don't like. If everyone just didn't care then they would get away with anything. Also I am so sick of this PC gamer/Console gamer crap, it used to be just gamer. The reason a lot of gamers would buy a game for computer instead of the console is because they preferred it. Dedicated servers and what not made it a better experience. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 449 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 |
The reasons they've given so far aren't that brilliant: All this boils down to is that they want to turn games from US into China. They don't want you to make mods, new custom maps, replacement skins and so forth. They want you to buy and download their stupid ass DLC instead. They just want you to pay them a lot more then you should. They are just being douche bags. People will accept this because they are apathetic. Console gamers were naive or apathetic. They hardly have any freedom at all. They just throw cash at everyone who asks them to. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 8 Nov 2009 | Who TF writes cheques any more??? |
Infamous Scribbler Posts: 522 Joined: 28 Mar 2008 |
As a gamer of both PCs and consoles I really dont like the tone of your post. Every purchase I made for either PC or console,I still use.I may not agree with the way it was done as a whole(some "DLC" should be free depending on the game) but I was hardly just throwing cash around. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 449 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 |
Well you go ahead and do that. () But you don't feel offended every time they expect you to pay more for less? Then ask you to pay again and again for a tiny bit more? On consoles prices might be different because of different licensing. However developers now, when they realized people will accepted it, release less game and charge the same. Only to make you pay even more for a tiny bit of DLC. Now they will be trying harder and harder to do the same to PCs. I feel bloody offended. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 484 Joined: 19 Sep 2008  |
Imagine all new tvs didnt let you choose what channel to watch. Instead the remote just has one big button called "match making" it then randomly selects a channel for you. If you want a different channel because its put you on the Weather Channel, you must either sit through the whole program before it works again, or turn the tv off and on again! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 195 Joined: 3 Jun 2009  | Good thing, DICE really needs 60 bucks. |
Muckraker Posts: 332 Joined: 16 Apr 2009 | wait, this counts as news!? geez, if I do something stupid with $60, can I be featured on the escapist?
DAMN, that is COLD, but so true |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1393 Joined: 3 Nov 2008   | If Infinity Ward was any lesser of a company, I hope they realize that everybody would hate them. They are just so lucky they have their army of consumer zombies. |
PROBATION  Posts: 917 Joined: 6 Sep 2008  | Sounds like an idiot User was put on probation for: The Whistles. (3 days) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 555 Joined: 7 Jul 2009  | Hahah. I had a good laugh at this. I'm not a PC gamer, so I don't particularly care, but if he thinks his $60 matters to DICE, he's probably quite mistaken. Then again, maybe more people will do this and it will mean a lot more, but that's a horrible longshot. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 449 Joined: 21 Feb 2009    | BF:BC is a pretty damn good console shooter. Hell, I'd say its my favorite. kicks so much ASS! although i sure as hell wouldn't do such a thing, because i have better uses for the 60$ i'm not spending on MW2 (BOOZE!) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1759 Joined: 3 Sep 2008   |
Finally, something we can agree on. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 225 Joined: 16 Sep 2009 | I was never really interested in MW2 to begin with, but I guess some just have to take it a step or two above the people like me and really send a message to the folks at IW. I'm not very "gung ho" about CoD games, I prefer them over Halo, but I'd never go and actually buy one. Valve has kept me pretty content. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 4 Joined: 5 Nov 2009 | Instead of making a nonanon contrib, Eddie should have taken a day to fillout the Better Business Bureaus script found here, odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/getstarted, with a well written complaint. All he needs is the companies telephone and address. Most cases just their contact telephone number. He'd have achieved more doing that, than sending a $60 dollar check to a nobody. |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 12 Oct 2009 | Im not sure what would be more entertaining this or watching some guy set 60$ on fire. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2443 Joined: 19 Feb 2009    |
oh don't go there don't don't AH crap we lost him I love Bad company but wouln't it have been smarter to y'know just save the money for the game? |
Muckraker  Posts: 301 Joined: 21 Apr 2009   |
Hoooo snap. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 82 Joined: 26 Jul 2008    |
What the fuck are you on about? They still sell The Sims. Therefore they are not legit. But at lesat they make good original games like Mirrors Edge and Battlefield series ;D |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 12 Nov 2009 | This guy is my new hero, kudos . |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1388 Joined: 17 May 2008    |
Don't give them the wrong idea that we may be Darkspawn ... at least ... not yet! |
Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 19 Aug 2009  |
I've changed your retarded post to another case of people having a disparity in 'features' to show you how retarded your post is. |
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