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Still More on MW2 Servers

[Oct 20, 2009, 7:41 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A post to Robert Bowling's Blog has further follow-up on the uproar over the absence of a dedicated server for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He lists several areas they feel will benefit from their new approach: Matchmaking & Smoother Gameplay, Playlists and Private Matches, Party System and Friendslist, and Cheat / Hack Free Games. On that last topic, he seems to believe IWnet will eliminate aim-bots and such: "The biggest benefit of using IWnet by far is the fact that you don’t have to worry about joining a server full of aim-bots, wallhacks, or cheaters. Or relying on the server admin of the server to constantly be monitoring, banning, and policing it. Modern Warfare 2 on PC allows us to control the quality of the game much more than ever before as well as utilizing the VAC (Valve-Anti-Cheat) system to keep games clean of hackers and cheaters." Also, there's an interview with Bowling on IGN that discusses the game, but none of the recent controversy.

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Re: More on MW2 Servers

Oct 22, 2009, 11:02

Prez

Just a thought, at this point the petition is getting close to 140k signatures...we can reasonably assume that not everyone signing it will boycott, but as a wild guess, I figure a lot will.

By the same token, I would guess that a lot of people who won't bother signing the petition won't buy the game because of IW's bad judgment.

And remember, in 2007 industry analysts determined that the average profit of a PC sale is double that of a console sale, so a lost PC sale (theoretical as it may be) hurts twice as much. I would think that they would rather have those sales than lose them, regardless if the console sales earn them new Ferraris or not.




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Comment [quote="Prez"Oct 22, 2009, 11:02]q[Just a thought, at this point the petition is getting close to 140k signatures...we can reasonably assume that not everyone signing it will boycott, but as a wild guess, I figure a lot will.]q By the same token, I would guess that a lot of people who won't bother signing the petition won't buy the game because of IW's bad judgment. And remember, in 2007 industry analysts determined that the average profit of a PC sale is double that of a console sale, so a lost PC sale (theoretical as it may be) hurts twice as much. I would think that they would rather have those sales than lose them, regardless if the console sales earn them new Ferraris or not. [/quote]

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