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Infinity Ward Removes Modern Warfare 2 "F.A.G.S." Video

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Kotaku writes: "Following stern criticism from two games writers yesterday, Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling pulled back a viral video for Modern Warfare 2, couched as a PSA from a group called "Fight Against Grenade Spam" that called the tactic "for pussies."

Destructoid's Samit Sarkar, following the event unfold over Twitter, reports that Infinity Ward took fire publicly from Phillip Kollar of Game Informer and freelancer Mitchell Dyer over the video's language, tone and especially, the way the fake interest group's name formed the acronym "F.A.G.S."

In the end, Bowling said he could "appreciate the concerns" although he felt "the core gag is great," and ultimately, the video was taken down."
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Pandamobile - 60 days 20 hours ago
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Infinity Ward are the F.A.G.S if you ask me.
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ambientFLIER - 59 days 20 hours ago
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How clever. Waah waah, they don't have dedicated servers, they are f@gs! Waah waah!
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MEsoJD - 59 days 19 hours ago
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1.2 - haha
fight against F.A.G.S


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1.3 Trebius | 59 days 17 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Lt_Skittles - 60 days 5 hours ago
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It seems like IW are doing all the wrong things to get people to talk about this game.

1.Remove Dedicated servers,mods,and Price it $10 more for the PC.
2.Raise the price in certain parts
3.Created an airplane level which isn't bad, but the fact that it got leaked, and upset a group of people
4.Third-person multiplayer
5.Ads that upset a certain group
6.???
7.Profit!!!
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SL1M DADDY - 60 days 1 hour ago
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3 - The video had a good mesage but...
The acronym or title was not so appropriate. I hate grenade spammers. In fact, in the last few weeks I have found myself pulling out the noob tube to get the better of some stupid campers and grenade spammers. It sucks when you have to stoop so low.
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GamerSciz - 59 days 20 hours ago
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You know why it's so easy to grenade spam in COD...because you can throw a grenade over a damn building and that's without the quarterback perk of being able to throw it even further. Grenades weigh about 8lbs when loaded with gun powder. Good luck tossing it a hundred feet let alone even 40ft is difficult. The grenades do well in terms of, if your close you should be killed, but they are able to be thrown way to far. No game to this day that I have seen has allowed grenades to be realistic in how far you can truly throw them.
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STONEY4 - 59 days 13 hours ago
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This is why I hated playing Search and Destroy or Hardcore. I would always be the ONLY person on the team to get randomly hit by a grenade. The match would start, I'd run out and take cover, bam I'm dead. Next round, I stay near the spawn point to wait for the first wave of grenades to end, but WTF BAM I'm dead. I go in a side street where no one usually goes BAM I'm dead.
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Pixel_Addict - 60 days 1 hour ago
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4 - Too little too late...
when you release something on the internet, especially that popular, its on there forever. Besides, it's not like the number of people using such nastly language can increase THAT much more. I mean pretty much everyone on XBL uses that word.
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theEnemy - 60 days 1 hour ago
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5 - F.A.G.S
lol. Hilarious.
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Bobby Kotex - 59 days 23 hours ago
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These people at IW must be brain-dead to think that was appropriate. Just pure stupidity right there.

Personally I think it would be great if people weren't so uptight, because it was kinda funny, but this is the world we live in.
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Tyetan - 59 days 23 hours ago
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Who cares, it was a joke.
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ZBlacktt - 59 days 22 hours ago
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Well that's just gay...lol.
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ForROME - 59 days 21 hours ago
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Nice , I thought it was pretty funny however; I will be buying anything remotely tied to activision, for once EA looks great to me now
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BenderDGreat82 - 59 days 21 hours ago
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the people who don't see anything wrong with this are the same ones who shout out f*g and gay like nothing. "It's a joke", "it's the world we live in"...yeah, I don't mind hearing this from idiots online, but when it's game developers spewing hate words, that's ridiculous!
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Ninjamonkey - 59 days 16 hours ago
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I was one of the people saying it wasnt that bad earlier but tbh I would NEVER think to call anyone that in the streets, its no different on the internet.

Its good at least that IW decided to stop showing the video though, but youtube will probably keep the video no matter what IW do.

The core message about grenade spamming though is completely correct. but lets be honest they could just reduce the distance you can throw it. Being able to throw a lump of metal full of gunpowder 100's of meters is rediculous.

But it is fun if you actually aim for someone really far away and get them right on the head XD.

AND actually its uselful for campers, if you dont want to go into their line of sight you can just toss a grenade over a building to their hiding spot...
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PimplePopperMD - 59 days 12 hours ago
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11 - old and elite
Ive already cancelled my pre order.

Im all set with Activision.
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corneliuscrust - 58 days 22 hours ago
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12 - world is too PC
already

imagine the backlash if they made something regarding mohammed
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