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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

The opposite, the game would have been cancelled even quicker.

In an internet world it only takes a few loud disgruntled customers to destroy a products sales and make it unviable. Here in Australia it has happened with one brand of motorcycles where a single disgruntled customer has been spamming motorcycle forums for a few years now and has single handedly made sales of one particular model, new or second hand, almost impossible. This is despite a concerted effort by an enthusiastic owners club to counter his continual negative diatribe.

The only possible way CoD could ever have survived is with an enthusiastic fan base which attracted more sales, despite the issues on first release, providing a revenue stream to fund further development. The original IL2 was way more buggy in some areas than CoD and the first version fm's were a bit of a joke, even taking off safely in a 109 was a challenge but user support in the early years led to a long and successful game. Of course that happened before the somewhat spoilt X-box generation moved onto PCs without understanding the totally different nature of the PC platform.

Infantile demands that something be fixed on the idiotic assumption that software companies will behave like politicians and bend over backwards to keep everyone happy, are simply counterproductive. A product with too many negative comments simply gets dropped forever and the development money sent elsewhere. Whilst many of the knockers of CoD seemed to take pleasure in their new found power to destroy a major product release, there did still seem to be a misled few who felt their inane and mindless public complaining was actually going to achieve something other than make the game unviable. Hard to believe people could be so stupid but it is the internet.

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