Thread: My opinion on MW2 not supporting dedicated servers

So that's it guys

No more clans, no more wars and no more favorite servers which are 24/7 online with a 50 ping max

All bullshit matchmaking with only 16-18 players max and what the host decides, you play.

There are currently 60000 petition sigantures written to infinity ward but seems they won't do anything about it.
On every forum i looks people cancelled their pre order. They are gonna loose sales for this and i can imagine people will pirate the game and not buy it and then Infinity Ward gaylords will have a reason to say ""pc gaming sux"" and support their ps3 and xbox 360 fanboys

Frankly i am dissapointed because i was looking forward to this game but they can rot in hell for making such a decision after more than 7 million PC owners were loyal and bought MW1.

Thank you INfinity Ward, i hope you die!

Old news :p
COD MW2 - No Dedicated servers (CONFIRMED)

To all ppl please sign this petition

Dedicated Servers for CoD:MW2 - Signatures


Already 80000 votes. I guess if we hit 100000 those fuking losers realise they will sell 100000 less games

Lol staffo ..haven't even noticed:)

il leave this thread here as my opinion

From the IW forums

The reality of the situation is that Modern Warfare 2 for the PC right now is code complete, so the only way that dedicated server support will make it in is via a post-release patch. Additionally, the pre-order numbers show already that the console versions completely eclipse sales expectations on the PC. Modern Warfare 2 on the 360 and PS3 combined will sell more copies on day one than may be sold in one year on the PC. Factor that into your demands and expectations

When has an online petition ever been noticed by devs?

They are just lying

However i bet when they see how much money they lost from the pc gamers they will immediatly make a patch to support dedi and then pretend they have always intended to

There, there is one more petition by me :) it is a pitty, although pc gaming isn't really for me, but it might be some day. Although I understand how they are making this a disappointing to tons of people.

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Although i am not a COD fan (never even played it, im an RTS guy) it sucks big time that game companies become greedier every minute. From what I read dedicated servers allow for local hosting which will bypass their online system, meaning more incentive for piracy. btw COD is from Activision right?

Same thing happened to StarCraft 2 - Blizzard confirmed this Blizzcon that there will be no LAN option to the game. Can you believe it, an RTS with no LAN!!! There are many petitions for it but nothing seems to be changed for now.

Seems like Activision Blizzard is adopting a new business strategy for all their games, which will no doubt hurt gamers. I hope they get hit so hard by this decision that their guys with ties at the top decide to put their thinking caps on before they lose all their fans!

We don't want another EA!

I is number 97924. :)

Well IW finally responded. It's bad news unfortunately.

You can read the full response here.

But to highlight the main points on the response

"We're just prioritizing the player experience above the modders and the tuners," says West. He points toward the mounting feedback IW has received from PC fans of Modern Warfare who couldn't find a decent server to play on between all of the cheaters, the insular communities, and huge skill level disparities that the original game's community fractured into. "We thought maybe it would be cool if the fans could play the game," he laughs.

Why not have both? West does not want to include dedicated servers alongside the custom-built backend, stating that it would just "bifurcate the community."

Sounds like a typical console fanboy response. There is no way a p2p system will work for PC's... ping will kill it for starters. Way to kill a game that started off on the PC gaming community..