Will Mordern Warfare 2 take the last few remaining players from this game?

[PedroTheGoat]

Originally Posted by Lexandro

Its not ignorance my friend, its experience. Ive seen exactly the same circumstances of a dev houses failures and I see the same pattern emerging with IW.

You see its like this; First of all they have basically given the PC gaming players the finger and told them that there will be no basic PC features in the title, everything will be console generic. In other words, no mods, no custom maps, no dedicated servers, no admins.

What that means its that online its going to devolve in to spam fests and camping 24/7 with no way of sorting it (since no admins!). Coupled with constant rage quitters/hackers/bot users/total a-holes/ and TK buddies online mode is going to die a very very quick death.

Now you can say that the console sales should overway these factors, but remember this. Just because I may own a console does not mean I dont also game on PC. So I am one sale thats never going to happen on any platform. Now expand that to the general number of console owners and you seeing a sales hit already. If you go by the number of people who have signed the petition against MW2, and that holds true of lost sales then that is one serious financial hit.

Now Im not saying the dev house is going to die overnight, its not Flagship studios (what a failure!) but once you loose what is considered a core fanbase you loose respect. Similar design decisions are taken again and again, and it in turn alienates more and more of the fanbase till your hanging on by a thread.

All valid points Lex. I just did a bit of research and found all of this to be spot on. They are screwing the PC crowd. I doubt they are that concerned though. PC would only be a mild percentage of their overall sales even if they did take the time and cost to make them happy.

PC gaming is dying. We're left with MMO's and a few other niche genres. Gaming companies have all moved towards the console... Because that is where the money is. The average consumer gave up long ago on trying to keep a top of the line gaming rig.

IW is going to laugh their way all the way to the bank as they sweep the PC crowd aside.