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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I second that thought!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Mark J.
DeFilippis [mailto:defilm@acm.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 27, 2005
6:48 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> cod@icculus.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [cod] Bring on COD2... I
have had it with EA BF2</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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O.K. So I have 3 copies of COD2 on pre-order.<br>
<br>
Honestly, I am not thrilled with the way EA is handling BF2.<br>
Great game, but leave it to EA to mis-handle even another<br>
companies development skill and talent. (Of course I am talking<br>
about DICE). EA... Challenge everything, should be EA...<br>
disregard everything.<br>
<br>
It has been so very quiet here, yet COD is in pre-order state,<br>
which is usually a good thing. (If it were like Valve, then it would<br>
be meaningless of course ;-)) . I would like to think both<br>
the Windows and Linux server is ongoing and we will see them<br>
released at the same time, and the game is coming along nicely.<br>
<br>
I would much rather they hold back full release of the product<br>
than see only a partial release, with a delay in the Linux server<br>
like with COD:UO, and the lag, bugs, map tracking issues, etc,<br>
etc... But it all depends on meeting the release schedule, ad-space,<br>
etc....<br>
<br>
Heck, from the trailers I have seen so far, I don't really think it<br>
looks very different. Maps look different, but so is the setting.<br>
But what about the game is different? I have not seen this well<br>
defined anywhere.<br>
<br>
There was a dramatic change from COD and COD:UO which was<br>
only an "expansion pack". Based on this, one would expect COD2<br>
to have significant differences, better, and try to keep the server lean...<br>
<br>
Jay, Steve? anyone hear any info/leaks/rumors out of AV? or IW?<br>
<br>
With BF2 IMHO a disappointment because of EA's garbage with Ranked/unranked,<br>
and all their other general stupidity, I am ready to dump BF2 and am SOooo<br>
ready for COD2...<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">Mark J. DeFilippis, Ph. D
EE defilm@acm.org</font></tt><br>
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defilm@ieee.org</font></tt><br>
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