What's Infinity Ward Doing?
by Chris Remo, Dec 16, 2005 1:00pm PSTSo, Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 2 launched to great reviews on both platforms and the #1 sales position on the Xbox 360 charts. You may be wondering what Infinity Ward is up to now. Well, we were wondering too, and the studio sent us over a quick updating listing a few ways they plan to support the PC version of the game.
Hi everyone, Now that we're back in the office, we're continuing to work on several updates, including some new content, map editing tools and an anti-cheat solution and should have more details available soon. To all our fans, thanks for your interest and your support. We'll keep you posted as soon as we can. Thanks, Infinity WardIt is likely the announcement is related to a planned strike on the part of Call of Duty 2 server admins, many of whom claim that "nobody's happy" with the lack of support shown for what they believe is an unfinished game.
Mike Nomad had been an avid player of the first "Call of Duty" but had been frustrated by the game's initial flaws. The game didn't sufficiently block cheaters, and it limited the ability of modders to create their own maps, a common and generally sanctioned option for PC first-person shooters. But after months of player complaints, Activision and Infinity Ward began releasing effective patches that remedied those issues. Nomad said a follow-up expansion, "Call of Duty: United Offensive," seemed to get things right at the start. But this year's sequel brought back the headaches of the original.This seems to be one of the first large organized actions of this specific type attempting to directly provoke a developer into improving a multiplayer game. The strike is planned for this weekend, so if you're trying to find some populated servers and not having much luck, this is why.
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I am not German (British actually) but ffs, why do we have to have such a stupid black and white portrayal of soldiers in a war. Obviously, it's not just CoD that does this, but we are often trying to say that games can compete on an intellectual level with literature and film, yet our war games feel like fucking Independance Day. Sure, if you are setting your game in a fantasy wolrd it's fine to have the good guys all good and the bad guys all bad (not that you have to, of course), but in a supposedly realistic portrayal of the greatest war in history, where millions upon millions lost their lives, you might at least try to show that it's not just some fucking goon running through a few towns shooting nazis and saving mankind.
Rant over.
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All they want is for COD2 to work as designed and advertised for BOTH the PC and the XBOX360.
I hope the strike makes an impression on Activision though... The IW folks deserve a vacation but IW's been too complacent about cheating with this title. MP does generate income despite the conventional wisdom. i.e. Counter-Strike
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