They killed modern warfare 2

[warhammertx]

Black Saturday 10/17/09 - No Dedicated Servers and Mod Tools Announced

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The news today put a stake thru the heart of most PC gamers and most feel its the end of the community and competition aspect of PC gaming we all came to love especially with the COD series. This could be end of the leagues like CEVO, TWL etc.., the end of gaming server companies like GameServers and the end of the clan community as we know it.

Let us show IW and Activision they are making a big mistake and they are letting many PC sales worldwide go to waste by not supporting dedicated servers and mod tools. Many innovations in this game came from PC mods done by PST Joker and other modders. Things like the C130 cannon and many other innovations. Many great games like CounterStrike itself has come from modders. Also custom maps and mods like 402's favorite Star Was mod came from the modding community. Its a shame that IW and Activision has forgotten where its roots came from. The PC community has supported the game greatly since the first version. There are still many players that play the previous versions. Console gamers should appreciate the things we have forced on the game: Larger maps, stats and more than 4 player maps came about so consoles could offer as much as PC versions of games. A lot of 360 gamers wanted dedicated servers for 360. Instead of pushing the console side to its limits they have decided to dumb down the PC version and not offer the many features we have had for years in FPS games. This is not progress or an improvement! This is a giant leap backwards!!!

Please sign this thread to let IW and Activision know that you as a consumer support the PC version and that they are losing the opportunity to make even more sales by not supporting mod tools and dedicated servers and release a better product. At the very least they can patch it into the game after release. Much like Treyarch put in COD TV, additional maps and other DLC afterward we would hope that Activision/Infinity Ward would realize the benefits of supporting and expanding the PC version to the fullest. It will only make the game better for everyone and eventually the console community can get mods and broadcasting eventually also and other benefits innovated with the PC first.

Let us let IW know that we want these things in the game in order for it to be a truly complete game and not an unfinished product.

[Richard_Rahl]

Wait a minute, no dedicated servers? So they wish to put all MP players ontheir own servers? That does not seem to be a smart move, as far as I'm concerned. That is, they only increase their costs that way. And no mods? Well, most software companies think they need to "protect" their product that way, they don't have the "free and open" way of thinking that for example Mozilla (known from Firefox and Thunderbird) has.

[warhammertx]

What about what this will do for the pc aftermarket if this trend continues no reason to upgrade if my content is the same as a console. Devs wont have to really push themselves because no one will play games on the pc. They can just code for the consoles and port one every now and then for the pc for some extra cash. no one pays 50.00 to play a game for 3hrs and be finished with it. I never play the single player in any game and a lot of folks are this way too. The manufacurers need to get on board with us on this eg. Nvidia,Ati, Asus,Creative labs we may not need them in the future.

[HD0087]

This isn't going to do anything. Except create traffic for petitiononline site and give more pennies thru google ads for its maker.
I'd much rather sign a petition to allow fans of the series to lineup and beat the hell out of the Activision/Infinity Ward CEOs/Founders.

Its pretty funny thinking back how Infinity Ward started by leaving EA and escaping the MOHAA milkage. Well guess what boys your back where ya started from Time to call it quits with Activision.