[cod] MW2 grosses $310m in North America and UK

[Bong-Master]

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From: "Midnight" <midowns at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 7:50 AM
To: "Call of Duty server admin list." <cod at icculus.org>
Subject: Re: [cod] MW2 grosses $310m in North America and UK

> Of those 3% I expect about 50% had no idea there were no dedicated 
> servers.  The other 50% probably are likely the single player noobs who 
> don't play online.
>
> IW will look at these numbers and probably just abandon the PC market 
> altogether instead of realizing there were easily half a million people 
> that boycotted the game.  500k x $60 is 30Million they could have added to 
> their numbers.  Surely that could have paid for a developer to build the 
> dedicated server if they wanted to.
>
> Oh well, just opens the door for the next game developer who wants to 
> support the PC platform.
>
>
> On another note, I've had several requests for PS3 dedicated servers for 
> MW2 like there are for UT3.  Apparently people do not like the p2p hosting 
> even on consoles, imagine that.
>
>
> escapedturkey wrote:
>> I realize I propose the discussion away from MW2, but I found this too 
>> interesting to pass up:
>>
>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Only-3-Percent-of-Modern-Warfare-2-s-Buyers-Were-PC-Gamers-127675.shtml
>>
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