ive been playing modern warfare 2 since it came out and this matchmaking system is nothing but fail. the game itself is amazing, but this has got to be the worst mistake IW has made with their IWNet.

i get dropped out every other round, theres horrid lag spikes (today it crashed an entire game, and made me and my friends get dropped out of steam connection all together), you end up playing the same map up to 3 times cause theres no way to choose what map to search for when starting a game, you cant put more then 9 PEOPLE IN A PARTY AT ONE TIME, you cant change game types…

….AND THERE ARE HACKERS.

A lot. I dont know what they’re doing over there at IW but i run into at least 5 aim botters or wall hackers, even some fire-rate hacks (auto pistols, snipers, no recoil, ect.) a day, and there’s not an option to vote kick or anything. im forced to either deal with it or leave, losing points.

Whats bias is IW’s explanation: Gamers over Modders. Player experience over modding and tuning.

…Modders ARE gamers? Modders make what they make to give players a new love and fresh look to something already awesome, and people that host dedicated servers put what the players want to play, the settings they want to play, otherwise the server dies (trust me, i know. helped watch over my clans server in CoD4, keeping hackers out and kicking unruly visitors). I never modded a day in my life with any of the CoD titles, but id rather play a duke nukem map remake then Crash (a CoD4 online map) and everyone i know in real life or online that play games will agree me. Mods are good, they keep games alive long after the release date.

Apparently you can complete the single player MW2 in about 5 hours. So all this hype is for 5 hours of single player game and a multi-player that people don't really want to play because it's too restrictive? Are we gamers that stupid these days? Didn't us PC gamers used to be the smart ones, when did we turn

Yeah; this is mainly aimed at consoles, isn't it? IW have tried to give it a nice PC coating but it's mainly aimed at the console market 'cos that's where the cash is and their online gamers are a lot easier to manage.

He really sucks at his job- i didn’t know you could get paid to write crap like that.

Heck f’ing no!!!

I don’t think reviewers are going to ignore it completely, but it won’t influence the score for sure. Games hyped like this because of a previous success usually get treated somewhat differently from brand new games. To me it seems reviewers are scared to rate such games low.

It will be interesting to see the variation in scores on Metacritic though.

I have to say though, its not all bad, as at least they acknowledge the underlying technology isn’t “sequel worthy” in probably all of such cases. Meaning, you can avoid some of those sequels if you already have the previous one.

Modern Warfare 2 obviously doesn’t use the Unreal 4 engine or something, so I’m guessing there’s a method to the madness of this silly sub-title sequel naming.

No dedicated servers is a no-go these days. Haven’t they learned anything from the commotion itself at all? Probably not.