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Default [Develop]Infinity Ward snubbed ‘ridiculous’ MW2 budget

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The studio behind this year’s biggest game was offered a “ridiculous” development budget from the world’s biggest publisher; a budget big enough for the team to politely decline....
....“Early on – when we decided to make a sequel – Activision estimated out a ridiculous budget. And we were like: ‘No, we don’t need that’,” he said. Though Bowling didn’t go into numbers, his description of the handsome budget is a telling sign of how important the franchise is to Activision. He added, however, that Infinity Ward was typically “pretty tight” with its development budgets.
Bowling was philosophical on the value of high budgets, discussing how they can even impede on the development process:
“Much like we don’t let ourselves get distracted by hype, if you have excess you feel like you should use excess,” he said. “So we said ‘let us design a game the way we’d always design a game. And let us focus on that.’ So we didn’t let the budget affect our mentality. We would only put stuff in the game that is right for the game, and not because we can.”
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"This will absolutely be the highest selling game in GameStop history," he noted. "We know that because our reservations are so strong on this game."
Bartel gave some perspective on the pre-order sales, too, saying the demand at its store alone is larger than the initial worldwide sales of Call of Duty: World at War.
"Just to put it in perspective, if you took all the Call of Duty: World at War titles that were sold in the first month worldwide, we have more reservations than that number just for GameStop this time around," he added.
http://au.xbox360.ign.com/articles/104/1041558p1.html




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so they had money to not make a crap multiplayer game but decided to anyway
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so they had money to not make a crap multiplayer game but decided to anyway
It wasn't a money problem because undoubtedly IWNET took more resources than a dedicated server and a SDK would. They have a bad case of "we know what's good for you"-osis.

Also lol'd @ "GameStop history"
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Can we please just make a thread and call it "Bash on IW"?

Seriously, every 5 minutes there is a new "news" thread about IW and they ALL end up the same. People whining about no dedicated servers lol.
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Can we please just make a thread and call it "Bash on IW"?

Seriously, every 5 minutes there is a new "news" thread about IW and they ALL end up the same. People whining about no dedicated servers lol.
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They should have taken the extra budget and made a better multiplayer for us PC gamers.
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And the thread has already gone off-topic.

I think the game is going to be hugely popular like said in the article. There's no doubt about it, regardless of the things that everyone is still whining about, it's going to be a huge game for the Christmas season.

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And the thread has already gone off-topic.

I think the game is going to be hugely popular like said in the article. There's no doubt about it, regardless of the things that everyone is still whining about, it's going to be a huge game for the Christmas season.
Learn how to deal with it. PC gamers are rightly pissed off and I consider it a job well done if ever thread gets trashed.
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Thats alot of preorders.

And then add all the people who didnt preorder like me, or plan on buying it from Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon ext.
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