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by Nick Breckon, Oct 23, 2009 12:20pm PDTActivision and Valve today announced that they've hammered out an agreement to get Valve's Steamworks suite of tools onto the PC version of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.
"All PC versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be powered by Steamworks, providing gamers with auto-updating, anti-cheat technology, Steam Achievements, and the recently introduced Steam Cloud," reads the release.
Modern Warfare 2 PC will come loaded with 50 Steam achievements. As with other Steamworks titles, the game will also be accessible from any computer, with Steam Cloud providing persistent settings.
"Steam is the hands down leader in offering a community focused experience on PC and the inclusion of Steamworks has allowed us to deliver the most feature-rich PC version to ever come from Infinity Ward, which at the end of the day will mean the most to our fans," said Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling.
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my community is: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025970021/home
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How long is this Ban i hope not ever...!!!
god this sucks ass .
As for the boycott.. lol.. sound familiar? L4D2 boycott anyone? With all due, honesty, we know next to nothing about IW.net other than the fact that it's different... And in the eyes of the PC gamer, philosophy, that seems to be enough to declare it to be the anti christ. The way, I see it, all this does is make sure that you aren't playing in a low ping server full of cheaters.
Maybe we should wait until they actually release details on their new system before going all out and and forming another mob? A little early to be panicking?
Oh noes! No mod support! Yeah, like Call of Duty 4 needed any mods. MILLIONS of people played the regular version of the game and they loved it.
OH noes! Now clans can't play! ...And what's stopping a clan from using the match making system? How do we even know that IW won't add a clan ranking system to IW.net.
Oh noes! No dedicated servers! Uhm, IW.net acts like a dediated server, in the the the hoster doesn't get the advantage..
"But im still not going to buy". Suit yourself. Do you remember how many people were using pirated versions of COD4? How much do you think IW would care about a platform with that level of piracy?
For fucks, sake where is our faith in IW?
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join the boycott MW2 (PC) facebook group here
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=180781542649&ref=nf
sign the petition here
http://www.petitiononline.com/dedis4mw/petition.html
Spread the word. here's what the so called "New Features" REALLY mean!
no more choosing what level you want to play
no more connecting to a low ping games by choice
no more clan matches
no more mods
no more filtering matches
no more joining on to a game with all your mates
no more high capacity matches (eg. 30/40/50 people in a match)
no more benifits of playing online over the console version
SPREAD THE WORD!!
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Infinity Ward makes some of the best single player FPS campaigns in the industry. Even if the MP sucks the game will still be well worth it for SP alone.
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That is all that concerns me.
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Teehee. Irony no?
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Wow. Does this guy live in his own universe or what? Pretty easy to tell that they're in damage-control mode with these recent announcements. I'm guessing that they're a bit surprised and probably shocked at the anger and pushback over their stupid decision to remove Dedicated Servers and to charge console prices for a PC game.
Anyway, yeah you're adding Steamworks. Yay. Yippy. Feel free to get back to us when you fix the PC version of this once-upon-a-time highly-anticipated game.
All the spin-doctoring in the world isn't go to recover the lost sales generated by your stupid decisions. FAIL.
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- no dedicated servers
- 16 players MAX online (8 vs 8 lol)
- i cant choose what i want to play, i have to adhere to IWs "playlists"
- no mod support
Worthless.
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Are the steam achievements just for the single player then?
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http://www.geeks.co.uk/7282-activision%E2%80%99s-bobby-kotick-hates-developers-innovation-cheap-games-you
does this mean it will use the steam matchmaking stuff? like left4dead?
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So far it looks pretty much like last year's, just with updated team rosters.
For people that already have the previous game and are still enjoying it with all the various options it provides, what is supposed to be the incentive for them to get this new version?
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Oh how I lol. Chuckle chuckle.
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It was one helluvan mp gaming experience, imho. I loved it. I just left after about 6 months, at which point the game - like just about every fps - degenerates into a cheatfest, whinefest, or newbfest.
I am glad I left when I did because I left on a high note, with great memories that greatly influence my desire to buy the new game. However, almost as great are the negative vibes from what they've done to eviscerate the multiplayer, which based on what has been detailed so far, appears to only shorten the lifespan of a quality mp experience for the game. But time will tell. I just know that if I am going to bother with it at all, I will need to pick it up at launch in order to be able to get the most out of the mp experience before it degenerates.
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I love steam, I have 76 steam games, I prefer steam, but it just isn't a good idea to force everybody.
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I mean, say a big stored decided to pull something like Activision and IW did on this game and you'd get thousands of consumers protesting outside their stores. You'd have national and international coverage. The store's stock price would drop and drama is spread loose.
But here? nah.. just an online petition, thousands of online posts and there is no real-world implications. Pity.
on a side note, Activision stock has been droppping (http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:ATVI). I think we need more high-profile coverage who can link the uproar by the fans, the pre-orders that have been being canceled, the stock price falling and the silence by activision and infinty ward.
So call yer journalist friends and have them do a story on this subject. Take impressions from the gamers, the retailers who are seeing their pre-orders cancelled (most of them actually lose money), and official word by activision and infinity ward, and opinions by game industry key-players.
WE ARE CONSUMERS
This is serious business.
gamers deserve more visibility.
i dont know any journalist or i'd have him tipped off. And not online journalists, i mean big print magazines.
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I'm sure some people will like their mw2 tied to their steam accounts, but I don't. Understandably, if I bought a game through steam and it needs steam, then I'm fine with that. However, having this game tied to your steam account not matter where you buy it, sucks.
I'm not going to even bother trying to boycott this. I'm just going to wait untill it becomes the $10 dollar game that it is and buy it then. In the mean time, there are plenty of other games that I'm interesting.
Thank you IW and Activision for making my game purchasing decisions that much easier.
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