Neocrisis: Should Console Gamers Support MW2 Boycott?

Bubbles - 77 days ago

yes screw activision,ill sign a thousand times if i could

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Persistantthug - 76 days 22 hours ago

As PS3 owner, Are PC gamers willing to boycott Valve for their treatment of PS3 owners?

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kornbeaner - 76 days 22 hours ago

As a PS3 owner and main console gamer the issues are not the same. valve deciding not to support the PS3 does not change the community for the PS3 it doesn't change anything about the PS3 it only gives us 1 less game to play but the overall community for the PS3 remains untouched and the same.

In this case IW is changing what the PC community has been known for at least 15 years. A P2P only online game is not common ground for the PC community, and the move is not for the better. Clans, players, tournament holders, everyone in the PC community for the better part of online gaming for PC has counted on dedicated servers to run the game in the most efficient way possible. Now what? they have to rely on something that is not super efficient and can cause nothing but frustration for its users,does "Host has ended match" sound familiar?
Something as simple as one player losing connection or unplugging his connection means the difference between enjoyment and frustration. The PC has always been superior in online play because of Dedicated server support, random users and PC organizers rent servers for the enjoyment of many, while on console if the host is getting owned thats usually when the fun ends for everyone.

I feel as a gamer we have to help support a community that is in danger of unfair treatment. This issue would be like a third party buying out sony's online service and start charging us for it. That will be that last time I play a game online, I refuse to pay for something that I can get for free on another platform. I will stick to PC gaming only if sony started charging for online play.

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ChozenWoan - 76 days 18 hours ago

Dedicated servers.

How many times have I gotten all amped up to play a few rounds of MW1 and just when the match is about to end... "Host left Game". So I go into the next lobby, talk a little prematch hype, map loads, then... "Host left Game". So I tried it one more time, this time the map begins to load up just seconds after I hit the lobby. This time everything goes fine and the match is underway. I turn the corner to find some jerk is lag switching, or using a glitch to pawn the room, or even worse... call in air support and choppers out of nowhere!!! >=(

Dedicated servers effect both PC and console gamers, so yes we should join the boycott. As gamers we can sign pettitions, write blogs and comments from now until the second coming, but if we really want to be heard we are left with only on real weapon... Our Wallets. Just as we can get developers to respond to bad games when they spell poorly, we can get them to respond to bad policies using the same tactics. We have a choice to make this fall, to buy or not to buy. "To Buy" will be saying that we will whore ourselves out and buy anything with enough hype, but "Not to Buy" will be like dropping a megaton bomb on Activisions corp HQ stating that we are not mindless droids and bots.

So which will it be ladies and gentlemen, To Buy or Not to Buy?

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