nathris

DICE is having a field day over this. BC2 isn't coming out until March, but when it does, if there are any CoD players left they will likely migrate to it. I wouldn't be surprised if they stepped up development to get it out sooner.

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rpm666

Correct.

Plus there's no mention of whether or not Private Matches are P2P or on IW's own Dedicated servers.

Just imagine the next game to come out advertising "Dedicated Servers here!"

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DannyM

For those of you who cancelled your COD MW2 pre orders-----> http://www.infinityward.com/forum/vi...?f=24&t=128306

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rx7racer

I read both and all I can say is they didn't clear anything up. All they did was say screw you modding community.

I don't get it, I really don't get it. I don't want to play a 360 disguised as my PC and not be able to play community modded maps.

Oh well, as I said before I will do what I can and that's not giving them my money.

But Bad Company just got a sell!

Zerkk

I'm pretty fond of this pic. Glad to see some people are following through with the cancellation of their pre-orders.

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Futan

This. lol. I still play RtCW: ET sometimes.

Even though I was never going to buy this, I'm outraged because if a big name gets away with it and is successful(dollars and cents-wise, not necessarily fun factor), it will most likely become the norm for all games following.

I put this in the Kotaku Petition thread when this article was linked to there but I'm reposting it here because it applies.
Either way, the community will die quickly in this game. MW1 will outlive it. No dedicated servers, no mods, no clans, no competitive play. All that is pretty much what determines the longevity of any online FPS. Big name will get you sales but if the online play doesn't back it up, it will die quickly.

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88EVGAFTW

I'm gonna get MW2, and play COD4, for single player. I generally don't play these kind of shooting games online as I don't have the time to get UBER good and you usually end up getting PWNED non stop by others who are glued to their PCs playing non stop.

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Higgins

QFT


The whole reason people would have to "search" for servers was because there was no authentication whatsoever for multiplayer. A simple CD check for single player is ideal, but when dealing with the amount of pirating and hacking there is no excuse for a complete lack of authentication beyond checking for duplicate keys in the respective server.

PC and Consoles cater to different gameplay styles. Xbox live plops you into a random server with random people and lets you go at it. On PC i have a favorites list of a select few servers that i frequent. When i used to play BF2 all the time i was a regular at the Zulu Jalabad server: I knew the other regulars there and we had a lot of fun working as an actual team.

I'll be saving up my money for BF:BC2


Yes please.

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Eastrider

...but people will add hacked dedicateds anyway.

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Xombie

The worst part is that we, like the console gamers, will never be able to choose the maps we play on, nor whether friendly fire is on or off, nor whether hardcore is enabled.

Just sucks....

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