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

[Mavrick Master]

84884 Total Signatures and counting...

**grabs another popcorn**

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Seth Sauls <wizz220 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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