[cod] Call of Duty 7

[James Landi]

The only thing we have on our side, is the friction between Treyarch and 
IW. I'm hoping Treyarch will want to try and keep their PC community 
happy thus we'll see dedicated servers like World at War. I can't see 
them using something called IWnet... however we may see TREYnet. Then 
again there was issues with IW giving Treyarch updated code before 
shipping which I would guess did not make it easy for Treyarch. But now 
after a number of patches, CoDWW is a good solid game.

As for being a flop on the PC, they said it sold more then their past 
CoD titles on the PC and at times just over 100K clients playing (or 
waiting to be connected). It will be interesting to see how much they 
charge the PC customer for their DLC.

Jim Landi
Rudedog
FPSadmin.com
Microsoft MVP, Games for Windows 2009. 2010



On 2/8/10 9:49 AM, Tyson wrote:
>
> It was a best seller on Console. It was a bomb on PC.
>
> Of the 10 billion dollars worth they sold, only 3% of that was PC. A 
> lousy 3 million dollars is the reason they will exclude PC on the next 
> version altogether. They knew this would happen that’s why they did 
> what they did. Now they can cut us out of the COD franchise and focus 
> on the locked in time hardware of consoles that are easier to program 
> for because they are all the same hardware. And increase the cost of 
> DLC for them at the same time. PC will in my opinion not see another 
> COD game.
>
> EA/Dice will continue the route of charging GSP a license fee for 
> every sold slot on all new games driving the price higher for Ranked 
> and Unranked servers. They started it with BF2142 and are continuing 
> it with BFBC2. That’s why there are only 20+/- GSP’s worldwide for BFBC2.
>
> And the little Guys that frequent this list the most are locked out 
> because they are small potatoes compared to those GSP’s with Beta 
> servers up right now.
>
> Tyson
>
> *From:* John Kennington [mailto:jwkennington at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 08, 2010 7:23 AM
> *To:* Call of Duty server admin list.
> *Subject:* Re: [cod] Call of Duty 7
>
> I seriously doubt that IW/ATVI will shift back to dedicated servers. 
> What do they care? They can charge what they want and force PC users 
> to purchase content. Although CoDMW2 is a best seller, it has rapidly 
> become very boring. They really don't care about "modding" or 
> "supporting the community." Why should they? It costs them money. 
> Yeah, we can all weep and cry about it, but they know that the console 
> crowd will support them.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Midnight <midowns at gmail.com 
> <mailto:midowns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Actually MS is starting to dominate the enterprise with the SharePoint 
> platform, google docs so far is a non-starter.
>
>
>
> Caleb Stephens wrote:
>
> microsoft is already dying a slow death from the google docs 
> transformation, xbox is next.
>
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