You know the scene in the Hobbit where they arrive at Beorn’s house? Rather than the whole mass of ‘em going in at once, they just send a couple in first, and then gradually reveal exactly how many dwarves are going to be scoffing his honeycakes. The idea being, that he’d tell them to sling their hook if they all marched in at once. Since the number of how many smelly, bearded bastards are going to be staying in his gaff creeps up on him, he rolls with it. I’m beginning to suspect Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare PC PR tactic is inspired by that. I’m also beginning to hope that the PC Beorn turns into a bear and eats them. Yes, it’s been confirmed that the PC Multiplayer will be capped at 9v9. Perhaps predictable with the removal of dedicated servers, but yet more dwarves in our house. In brighter news, Zombiecow are trying to ease the wait for the faithful with a 50% discount off their Time, Gentlemen Please until it comes out. Go gets.
Oh – fancy seeing the launch trailer? Here you go:
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Ok that’s the final nail for me: http://kotaku.com/5398270/id-probably-no-dedicated-servers-for-rage
If MW2 sells well it’s RIP PC gaming you just need a 360.
GOOD NEWS not long to wait for a chance to play a good game this year.
http://blogs.battlefield.ea.com/
Coming December, we will invite players to participate in a PC open beta. Then, early next year, all players worldwide will get to experience this premier shooter when we releases a Battlefield: Bad Company 2 multiplayer DEMO on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
Koztah
11/05/09
John Carmack waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There
were consoles in the base. He didn’t see them, but had expected them now for years.
His warnings to PC Gamers were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late
for now, anyway.
John was a programmer for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the
spaceships and he said to dad “I want to program the games daddy.”
Dad said “No! You will BE KILL BY CONSOLES”
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in
the convention floor of the E3 he knew there were consoles.
“This is PC Gamers” the radio crackered. “You must fight the consoles!”
So John gotted his compiler and wrote up the Rage engine.
“HE GOING TO KILL US” said the consoles.
“I will shoot at him” said the 360 and he fired the RROD missiles. John
compiled at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were
trapped and not able to compete.
“No! I must kill the consoles” he shouted
The radio said “No, John. You are the consoles”
And then John was ditching dedicated servers.
Somewhat true:
Doom3 was 4 players P2P.
but probably he is unhappy about the result.
The official answer to all MW2 problems will result in “balanced” answers.
IW forum 10 Nov 09:
“I cannot connect to IWnet WTF??”
IW_dev: IWNet is not balanced today for your connection you cannot kill people today. You need less killing more DJ Hero so your life is balanced again. Buy DJ hero from our publisher it’s good.
“MW2 crashes to desktop”
IW_dev: Your PC is not balanced to run MW2 you need to buy a PC from our partners.
“I feel sick walking around in MW2 WTF is up with the FOV?”
IW_dev: You are feeling sick because you are not balanced, sit in a dark room. Then when you are feeling better buy DJ hero before you continue with MW2.
“My 19th friend cannot connect”
IW_dev: You have too many friends to have a balanced life this is not good for you. Your other friends should buy DJ hero until there is a slot free.
You get the idea now. ;)
I agree! I think I even said that before on RPS forums.
Activision Shares are down from $13.14 USD to $11.87 USD.
Middle of October 2009 the share price was nearly $13, now at 11.87 so shares have fallen nearly 10%. And thats on the back of the biggest game sales in a 5 day period for the launch of COD MW2 of $550mil USD.
Investor commentators are using websites like Metacritic to guage how well a game will sell in the end, and how many of games each company has on there. So if Activision have several bad games then it’s share price goes down, if they have several good then it goes up.
With so many PC buyers raging about the game this could be surpressing the share price even though they have made $550mil in sales in first 5 days.
Keep the pressure on, at least Activision have the money to fund proper PC development of COD MW2 and provide some dedicated servers.
Good luck all.