It should, I’m just surprised at the expectation that it will. Maybe PC users should vote with their wallets and not purchase this game if they want to see more games with modding, decent multiplayer options, etc. (as others have already pointed out).

I agree with you on the pre-adolescent “tee-hee-hee” manner with which videogames portray sex and sexuality.

Disclaimer: I have not and have no intention of buying or playing MW2.

The reason why the (video of the) airport level in MW2 bothers me more than violence in a game like GTA3 is it is, for all intents and purposes, an interactive cut scene. It would be more powerful, by far, if you were given a moral dilemma at the start and had to make a choice with real in-game consequences.

For instance, the terrorist leader has information for tracking down a rogue nuclear warhead and standing by and watching civilians be gunned down may end up saving more lives in the end.

Give me the option to make a choice and change the outcome. Forcing a character which I am controlling to make a certain in-game choice, particularly a hard moral choice, not only destroys any investment I have in the character it is also infuriating.

Anonymous Coward said:
Stop kidding yourself, you aren’t a ’super-fan’, you are a thief, no more, no less. You aren’t entitled to every piece of entertainment media just because you buy some of it – there’s plenty of shit I would like, but don’t have because I can’t afford all of it. You are forcing the prices artificially high for the rest of us because we pick up your share of the development costs – please, don’t for a moment think you aren’t taking money out of my pocket every time you steal a game I have paid for.

Nah, you pay that price because you let them make you pay that price. Also because they that you should have to foot the price of thier extreme marketing campaign.

I am fascinated by the hype surrounding MW2, but not at all interested in the game. However, I used enjoy CoD2 online…

I am fascinated by the hype surrounding MW2, but not at all interested in the game. However, I used enjoy CoD2 online…

This is NOT a console port. In fact, despite all the issues involved with the PC release, this version is soooo much more WIN than a XBOX360 version. Two words: ‘mouse and keyboard.’ They had to build a engine that could scale well among platforms, and it STILL looks great maxed out (another reason PC is better, the xbox graphics suck in comparison).

Anyway, I recommend. Especially if you like CoD, but even to those who don’t.

I pirated CoD4:MW2 because I really wanted to have a look and couldn’t spare the 60 quid it would have cost me to get it with the same amount of hassle. Of course I can order it for about 40 from cdwow.ie; then I’ll still have to go to the post office during my lunch break to pick it up, and having a physical medium is just not something I enjoy at all. I’m also unsure if buying the retail version would allow me to download the game off Steam if I lose the disc at some point (which I tend to do). So basically, it’s 60 euro (way too much) for a legit copy that’s about as much hassle to download as the pirated version, or 40 euro (pretty much acceptable) for something that’s actually more hassle than pirating it.

Buying MW2 is a no brainer. Next paycheck (that’s about two weeks from now), whatever’s cheapest at that time will get my money. It’ll be more hassle than pirating it was, but I’ll make an unhappy sound and move on.

What we need, really, is a common sense-driven, open digital marketplace with games priced much lower than they would be in BnM retail. That may drive retail out of existence, but who cares?

Also, if I can go back to piracy for just a moment. The hostility from much of the gamer community toward people who actually admit that they pirate stuff is really counterproductive. Pirates are superfans, to borrow an observation Cory Doctorow made about the same situation in the music industry. People who consume massive amounts of this type of entertainment are basically forced to pirate by the prices. I have a pretty decent job, earning around 28k, but I also live in Dublin, so a lot of that money is sucked up by Life. If I went entirely legit, I wouldn’t be able to afford more than one or two games a month, and what if I buy the wrong ones? Many, MANY games I download I only play once or twice, decided that the PR was all hype and false promises, and delete again. That’s not a risk I want to take with an investment of 50-60 euro.

Instead of yelling at people like me (OMG, stop destroying my Entertainment Industry Of Choice) it might be better to try and change the way games are sold (see above) in order to get us to happily part with what spending money we have.

Just a thought :)

But that doesn’t mean I don’t want dedicated servers. I like to have something a little different once in a while. Those dodgeball servers on TF2, for example, are great fun. In MW2 none of these little gems are going to emerge. We also have the much more significant problem in that the games are going to be completely unfair and weighted towards the game creator, due to him having zero latency. All TF2 needs is an option to show standard, custom or vanilla games.

2 hours in and I was bored and frustrated, the standard reaction for me when faced with CoD singleplayer modes. It's more of a grind than it was before. Instead of waves of enemies that you trigger to stop they've just thrown an unfair mass of them at you and let you pick up the pieces. Fight, die, reload, fight, die, reload, fight, die, reload. It's game design at its most basic. Amateur stuff. By the end of the Rio mission I was ready to give up for the night or possibly forever. I just can't fathom why anyone would buy this game for the singleplayer alone, whether it was priced at £40 or £20. It's just not well made.

Dipping into multiplayer with a feeling of unease I knocked vsync off for greater performance and clicked the button. Sheer relief was my first emotion. I was in a well-populated lobby in a second. My fears of encountering the same limboing awfulness I'd suffered in Left 4 Dead were gone. The game started, the map loaded and there was no lag, at all. I played for another two hours and experienced about 5 seconds of juddering at some point, less than I'd had the night before when some loon with a ping of 500 joined a server I'd been enjoying for a good while. In short, it's accessible and smoothly and smartly presented. I didn't encounter any nobheads whilst playing except for one guy who called me a n00b for kicking his ass in my first MW2 match, but I adore those sorts. I'm sold on this, totally and utterly. I can understand why others will despise it, but for me its perfect and for that reason I thank Infinity Ward for the work they've put in to getting us up to date with FPS multiplayer on the PC. Just because it's different doesn't necessarily mean that it's wrong and MW2 is far from being a mess of a console port.