[cod] Sorry have to vent, Modern Warfare 2 on the PC

[Seth Sauls]

Well folks now you see why ATVI raised the price of the game by 10 bucks.
Did you all really think that ATVI would foot the bill for this all new
IWNet play system. LOL

ATVI at its best, lets scam even more money and oh yea lets make them pay
for the play system and lets NOT give them dedicated servers ( forced use of
IWNet ).
Wizz

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Caleb Stephens <csteph9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lets not forget, the only thing this strategy is going to do is sell
> consoles and put GSP's and all of the fringe projects out of business long
> term.  Not to mention data centers.
>
> This isn't IW's strategy.  This wreaks of antitrust violation from you know
> who.  GSP's need to be up in arms.
>
>
>
> Open source is a great idea.  But anyone care to guess how much it costs to
> develop a game like COD4/MW2?  We're consumers.  Opensource will never
> provide that.
>
> MaydaX - great - where do we get pre-order cancellation numbers? - good
> point re duplication, but accurate enough.
>
>
> Businesses that don't listen to their customers fail.  Or should.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:25 AM, escapedturkey <
> escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, I completely understand that we vote with our dollars. That's why I'm
>> advocating we go the open-source route or support a developer / publisher
>> that will support us back -- i.e. Valve's Source engine. Begging
>> Activision/IW seems a bit demeaning and giving them too much power. The
>> communities need to lead our hobby not the corporations. Perhaps I'm not
>> making my opinion clear. Sorry.
>>
>> Caleb Stephens wrote:
>>
>>> Over reliance?  This isn't about reliance.  We vote with our dollars.
>>>  Corporate strategy is measured in profitability.
>>>
>>> These petitions won't do anything other than give a head count number
>>> showing the impact of this corp strategy.
>>>
>>> This is a huge petition w/ over 50K signatures already collected (approx
>>> $3.5M of value zapped out of the entire supply chain):
>>>
>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw
>>>
>>> It seems to be collecting 2k sigs per hour.
>>>
>>> We need a list to track all the lists.  LOL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, escapedturkey <
>>> escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    *Stands up to podium*
>>>
>>>    *Clears throat*
>>>
>>>    *Drinks a sip of water*
>>>
>>>    As far as petitions and ranting goes, I think as a community we need
>>>    to show a bit of self-respect. All this pleading and begging just
>>>    shows an over reliance on a corporation's decision making on the
>>>    state of our gaming experience. We need to re-focus this energy into
>>>    alternatives that will make us less dependent on the "suits"
>>>    determining the direction of our favorite hobby.
>>>
>>>    Does anyone else agree or am I alone in my opinion?
>>>
>>>    *Stands down from podium*
>>>
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