Infinity Ward Claims MW2 on PC a "Tremendous" Success

[Frizzle]

I thought about getting the game, I really did. I then went and read all the PC *reviews* of the mulitplayer, and that pushed me in the other direction. I've not heard one good thing about the PC mulitplayer. Also, a 5 hour single-player game is not worth US60 to me. I played CoD5 and I can't imagine the experience would warrent ithe purchase.

Also, seen that video of a guy who got the nuclear bomb and won the match in 4 min? That doesn't seem like a lot of fun to me. Why would you introduce an element that ends the game early? Isn't the whole point to keep playing?

One more thing: To agree with above posts, numbers are never right. IW and Activision can say whatever they want and the press will run it. No one knows for sure. PC sales were small cuz they pissed a bunch of people off. I have a feeling the PC numbers would have been huge if they didn't make all the changes that they did.

 

[Filtertip]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

It would take alot more time and money to create there OWN matchmaking system and put up the lissen servers then it does to just make didi server files.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Excellent. Now you mind actually making it better with all that money you made?

This. and they can claim anything they want and spin the numbers to make it look good for them. Doesn't make the game any less gimped. I can claim right now that George Bush's presidency was an amazing success, and i'd be wrong as can be.

 

[Nazulu]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

It wasn't because PC gamers got the same deal as console games, it's because they had taken so much out of the multiplayer that has been the standard for a long time now for no good reason. I literally mean no good, they make more money than ever before so they should be trying to improve the experience on consoles too, not going backwards.

 

[TelHybrid]

Not surprised. All the so-called boycotters ended up buying it anyway.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

It wasn't because PC gamers got the same deal as console games, it's because they had taken so much out of the multiplayer that has been the standard for a long time now for no good reason. I literally mean no good, they make more money than ever before so they should be trying to improve the experience on consoles too, not going backwards.

Dude you can explain your sound logical argument, to me at least, till youre blue in the face, but console only players will NEVER get it and come back with the same stupid ass argument.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I'm sure it is.
Not that I care, mind you.

TF2 and Assassin's Creed 2 are keeping me well entertained, where as this new MW is very boring, for me.

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

Seriously man, dedicated servers should be on all platforms, I've played MW2 on the Xbox 360 and found myself vastly underwhelmed.
Stable servers and a larger number of players hosted would've improved the experience greatly.
You don't just randomly walk into a nightclub and hope there's nice people in it in the real world, you find a nice place and keep coming back.
Such is how dedicated servers work, too.

I would compare MW2's P2P to drunkly stumbling into every back alley you can, hoping you find a decent bar hidden there.

 

[Bediz]

"Yes, PC is the smallest percentage in terms of how much sold on each platform but that hardly means anything other than the PC is just the smallest market,"

Next time I'm with a girl and she says it's small, I'll just tell her that it's not an issue. It's not that my unit is small, the size "hardly means anything other than it's the smallest market"

I'm such a smooth operator.

 

[TelHybrid]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

See this is what irritates me... when console gamers come up with stupid responses like this to PC gamers being annoyed about MW2.

It's not the fact the PC version is the same standard as the console version, it's the fact they removed so much from the multiplayer that was there in its predecessor and in quite frankly almost every PC multiplayer game for years. If they want the versions to be equal, why not just improve the console version instead of downgrading the PC version? Is it to please the butthurt console fanboys?

 

[Georgeman]

So? Why should I believe him? He is the one who said that "the PC version is the most feature-rich" and that "there will be an equal experience among all platforms" or something along those lines. Why would he be telling the truth? This seems more a case of lost confidence on the part of Infinity Ward concerning the boycott.

 

[MR T3D]

well, this is disappointing.
They must be dumping in digital sales of teh PC version in this figure, because it's simply not plausible otherwise.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Well, I got an... unofficial... version of the game, so I certainly didn't help them achieve their tremendous success. You never get it! You never get it! "waves his money in the air"

Anyways, this reminded me of how the boycotters boycotted the game. A really sad image

 

[HK_01]

Well, isn't that nice?! Absolutely wonderful! I knew I lived in a world full of morons and that it sold well just proves that.

 

[Nazulu]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

It wasn't because PC gamers got the same deal as console games, it's because they had taken so much out of the multiplayer that has been the standard for a long time now for no good reason. I literally mean no good, they make more money than ever before so they should be trying to improve the experience on consoles too, not going backwards.

Dude you can explain your sound logical argument, to me at least, till youre blue in the face, but console only players will NEVER get it and come back with the same stupid ass argument.

I don't like it that you mean all console gamers and I don't think anyone is that thick that they don't understand that we should be trying to improve the experience. It's perfectly understandable and reasonable but some of these people just don't care about other gamers, and that's why different people will never get a long.

I mostly play games on my console but I can understand what a pain IW are being at the moment and that this is a step backwards.

 

[Piecewise]

Well, that's nice. I haven't bought it, but my fellow PC gamers have. Pathetic. All of you. Get out of my sight!

Now we can await another fucking terrible port of the next one, and we'll probably buy that too. You know, we deserve this shit if we can't do what we said we were going to.

Same here, and good man for following through.


It should be said, that just because something manages to be such a success, it doesn't mean you should ignore the cries of the audience that you are shafting. It sucks that the sales numbers are the only thing they're gonna see, but I remember a day and age where the consumer dictated what the product had to offer, simply because it was the consumer that was responsible for the success of the manufacturer/distributer. Again, gaming takes a strange stance in that, the consumer is told what to like. Just really depresses me, with the potential games like this could have had for me.

By shafted you mean not pandered too I assume?

Lets face it, pc gaming is pretty fucking weak right now. Nearly every game gets a multiconsole release and they're all pretty much identical. Its why arguing over ps3 or 360 is worthless because, realistically, they're pretty much the same fucking console. Yeah you got your handful of exclusives, but most of them are hardly worth buying, let alone buying a console for. Pc is even worse since it's lone major advantage, graphics, is hardly ever used to it's full extent. Beyond indie games, rts's and MMOs the pc doesn't have shit right now.

 

[GBlair88]

"MW2 on PC was a tremendous success" But if we weren't so stupid it would've been even better and made us even more money.

 

[Nazulu]

Can't say I'm surprised. Never quite got what the fuss was all about anyway. PC gamers are getting the same deal as the console games...so they go ape shit. PC gamers are the smallest demographic they're putting this game towards, why would infinity ward want to put in the extra effort? It sold well regardless.

See this is what irritates me... when console gamers come up with stupid responses like this to PC gamers being annoyed about MW2.

It's not the fact the PC version is the same standard as the console version, it's the fact they removed so much from the multiplayer that was there in its predecessor and in quite frankly almost every PC multiplayer game for years. If they want the versions to be equal, why not just improve the console version instead of downgrading the PC version? Is it to please the butthurt console fanboys?

Haha beat you to it!

Seriously though, it seems a lot of people have an unhealthy understanding on how things work or should work. Sometimes I feel they know it's a downgrade but they just want to annoy people anyway.

 

[Otterpoet]

Transformers 2 was a tremendous success too... but that didn't stop it from being a steaming turd.