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

[escapedturkey]

Has IW responded to these signatures yet? On Bluesnews someone stated 
there was a Twitter response by an IW employee, yet I can't seem to find it.

Mavrick Master wrote:
> 84884 Total Signatures and counting...
> 
> **grabs another popcorn**
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Seth Sauls <wizz220 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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? Â This isn't about reliance. Â We vote
>                 with our dollars. Â 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. Â LOL
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>                 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, escapedturkey
>                 <escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
>                 <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>
>                 <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com
>                 <mailto:escapedturkey at escapedturkey.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                 Â  Â *Stands up to podium*
> 
>                 Â  Â *Clears throat*
> 
>                 Â  Â *Drinks a sip of water*
> 
>                 Â  Â As far as petitions and ranting goes, I think as a
>                 community we need
>                 Â  Â to show a bit of self-respect. All this pleading
>                 and begging just
>                 Â  Â shows an over reliance on a corporation's decision
>                 making on the
>                 Â  Â state of our gaming experience. We need to re-focus
>                 this energy into
>                 Â  Â alternatives that will make us less dependent on
>                 the "suits"
>                 Â  Â determining the direction of our favorite hobby.
> 
>                 Â  Â Does anyone else agree or am I alone in my opinion?
> 
>                 Â  Â *Stands down from podium*
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