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I'm sure the PS3 gamers who can't access their online are thrilled to hear that. | |
Yeah, well, that's part of the PS3 experience unfortunately. It's a large part of why I bought MW2 for 360 even though I own a PS3 too. It's also why I don't raise holy hell over the yearly subscription fees for XBox Live: because it's worth it. | |
Well if you're going to boast about the Xbox 360...I don't pay for any extra subscription fees for gaming on the PC and guess what? It's NEVER down. If the server I like is off for maintenance I just find another. That said, these sales figures don't surprise me too much. I'll admit I'm a little happy to see the relatively low percentage of PC sales. Hold your ground brothers! | |
Whut? Where does Halo 3 come into this? I think we've been trolled, men! Anyway, gotta love how whenever sequels come up now, people say "It should have been DLC!" Yeahno. That complaint was lousy back when people applied it to L4D2. Games with dedicated servers have also been hacked, so in reality the only difference is how well the games are monitored. There's probably some way to report hacking: if there isn't, well, THEN I'll get upset. Until then though, I take this news as being... non-news, and more like a statement about how fast hackers work. (Copyright claim means that I can't even see the video anymore...) | |
Not boasting at all- I game on PC too, but mostly with RPGs (which always end up with fubar control schemes on consoles anyways). I prefer some types of games on PC, some on 360, and some on PS3, and honestly I've always thought the fanboyism of PCs/various consoles was pretty retarded. They're all good platforms for their own reasons. I was just explaining why I didn't buy it on the PS3 and why I don't mind paying a couple bucks per month for Xbox Live. | |
My fault for misinterpreting your intentions then. Welcome to the Escapist btw :) | |
Heh heh. Mewtwo. I'm gonna start calling it that from now on. | |
Thanks! Seems like a pretty cool gaming community, and I've had a lot of trouble finding places to talk about games that aren't pretty much infested by melodramatic types. I have already had the plot of MW2 spoiled on this forum, but I don't really care anyways, so no big ;) | |
Yeah this is what absolutely blows my fuckin' mind. I thought "this is a disaster, all the lemmings just threw themselves off the cliff, and they don't even do that in real life!" - but nope, it just goes to show cheaper things sell better and the profit was unbelievably well. This could actually be wonderful. | |
Wait, the boat departed with anchors down? That's a bad way to sail a boat. Me, I'm not buying it, and I'm maybe renting it at some point in the distant future. Yay for me! I don't support evil gaming companies! | |
Oh god, you're right... | |
I like this guy... He knows what he wants, he can spell,and he knows when to piss on people that are annoying... Have a cookie As for my own thoughts? Well I might buy the game still and I like the setting... And are you really surprised that a safety blanket like this would sell well? Granted even I "The Pessimist" did not expect this... | |
You sir, are quite the scally wag! | |
Call me crazy, but if this is one of the best selling games of all time, then I think Infinity Ward might just be a good developer. They obviously realize what a lot of people want in a game. Just because it's not what you want doesn't mean the developer sucks. Anyways, I'm surprised to hear that the game has already sold that many copies. I'm tempted to rent it just to see how good it really is. | |
for some reason reading this made me sad... | |
Damnit, this is really tempting me. Activision has been pissing me off lately and I don't want them to see a dime of my money, but damnit MewTwo is looking damn fine. I'll probably borrow it from a friend, but damnit if it doesn't look tempting right now... | |
I'm not surprised seeing the prices on Monday. £26 is an insane price for a AAA release, espicially one with the guaranteed popularity of Mewtwo (I love that name). I guess this is more proof of the awesomeness of competition. | |
They are screwing over the public with an excellent well designed game with a fun story mode? If that is the case Rockstar as well is also screwing over the public for making their games too enjoyable. | |
Hope levels....so much in the negative. | |
Yeh, good joke. | |
The game is well made. The controls are easy to use, The single player campaign is quite fun with excellent plot elements, and the multiplayer is also quite fun as well. | |
Have you played the game? It's fucking amazing. Pretty sure they listened to someone. | |
While I don't think something that's popular is automatically good (case in point, Transformers 2), didn't we gamers all agree that CoD4 was pretty... awesome? I mean, come on, even Yahtzee admitted it was exceptional. On that note, I just beat MW2's campaign in one sitting and ALREADY I feel I've gotten my money's worth. So hey, good job, Infinity Ward! You guys deserve it. Excellent game. | |
How is the game's campaign for difficulty? If it's easier than the first MW, I'll probably try it on Veteran the first time through, in order to get more time out of the single-player game. | |
I hope it tanks, and Activision with it! They can suck my PC gamer nads. | |
I'm not enough of a shooter fan to be all that excited for this game. I might check it out for the single player campaign if it ever becomes dirt cheap used, but otherwise "meh". Still, congrats to Infinity Ward for their success if they pulled it off and these numbers are indeed accurate as opposed to something they bought. Taking the #1 sales slot is a pretty big deal. The big "down side" to this for me is simply that even if MW2 is incredible, it's simply going to encourage even more shooters and such as people try and cash in on what they see as a successful formula more so than they have been already. Truthfully, I do not find the report to be totally unbelievable. Simply put it doesn't seem that there have been all that many good 'straight' FPS games this year. Borderlands which strikes me as being the champ before this is a FPS/light RPG hybrid. Even most other shooters in general having had mixed reception. "Red Faction: Gueriella" being a good game for example, but receiving a lot of complaints because for a game called "Gueriella" it had like zero stealth components. So basically we've got a big multiplayer FPS coming out right around Christmas when all of the other game companies with major competing titles have pushed up into next year, combined with a relatively hungry market of shooter fanatics who have had little to definitively sink their teeth into. Leading of course to the endless cries about how the various shooter/RPG games weren't "shooter enough" to take on an unusually high pitch. It's basically a perfect storm of timing, and anticipation. I find it easier to believe the it's the new record holder (which we will see change frequently like with movies and box officer figures) than the claim of the margin by which it's holding that record. | |
This is truly a disaster. I can't get hold of a copy because everywhere has sold out in my area! It is quite an impressive feat though. I'm dreading how much Yahtzee is going to moan about hype if he reviews this... | |
Bleh, how undeserving. WHERE does MW2 redefine the FPS genre? It's all because of CoD4, an equally uninspired game with good multiplayer. Linear shoot-the-duck fest for singleplayer. Everything's scripted so much that you could make a macro to beat the entire campaign with a single click. | |
Everyone on my Live friends list has it so far. And I'm still stuck with the first one until FRIDAY. | |
7 million sales hey? Possibly the entire 12 year old population of Britain or at least the entire population of Britian with hte maturity of a 12 year old. | |
Indeed, then again it gives me the room to finish the game on Veteran and play some Spec Ops, and spending an hour getting the Pit Boss trophy. But I got it! Took some time, but then again, MewTwo is my second FPS on the PS3. Anyway, those figures are pretty insane, and I'm not sure if the game deserves the title of best sold game of all time. Yes it's a great game, fantastic even, but it doesn't do much else that MW1 already did. Yes the single-player campaign is exciting and thrilling, but it's also very chaotic and pretty messy, story-wise. It's also easy, a lot easier than I expected, especially on Veteran. | |
My thoughts exactly. They're good developers, they WILL fix the issues, as every company with a grand multiplayer game launch has. if they don't, they'll lose their community. | |
I really don't understand the Modern Warfare 2 hype - I have the first one; and too me, It's an average game with no stand out qualities - it plays everything safe; nothing new to the genre. Am I missing something? It's just... Average. Maybe my brain works differently but a good game to me, needs *Story and characters - MW has a few, but nothing worth googling All I can say about Modern Warfare is good graphics - and if gamers value nothing more than good graphics then we will never move on to be an art form.
My point exactly. | |
fully saturated testosterone market. hurrrrrr. | |
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Good job, Activision. Your faith in the homo oeconomicus has proven successful yet again. Fuck quality, it's all about profit.