BASH 125: Fumble
October 31st, 2009 — bashThough it should have been a runaway romp, the marketing of Modern Warfare 2, the sequel to the iconic CoD4, has been a muddy slog.
Activision, the game’s publisher and Infinity Ward, its developer have seen the game’s release troubled by an ever growing list of issues, many of their own making.
MW2’s ball-handlers have dropped their fair share of pig-skin in the last few months. Here are just the lowlights:
- Activision brass increase the price of MW2 during the deepest recession since the Great One, just because they can. This causes great resentment even amongst the game’s fanboys.
- The PC community forges a 170,000+ petition demanding the restitution of dedicated servers after it pieces together the dev’s plot to have their online experience replaced by a peer-to-peer system.
- PC pre-orders of the game drop, as does Activision stock, soon after the news of the lack of dedi servers hits the internet.
- IW devs single out hardcore CoD PC gamers as bad influences. They are effectively fired. Modders, competitive gamers and tuners go into anaphylactic shock.
- PC Modders revolt after they see that their creativity is harvested and used blatantly in some of MW2’s more appealing features, without so much as any recognition (never mind any monetary compensation).
- Console gamers get a hold of MW2 DVD’s and begin live-streaming SP missions over the internet. Hundred’s of spoiler alerts go unheeded as the game’s closely guarded secrets get spilled.
- Pirated MW2 console torrents are being seeded across the world, two weeks before the game is officially released. This finally dispels the myth that illegal PC downloads were the real problem.
- CNN ireporters call in to say that MW2 lets kids play terrorist characters. The alleged opening scenes of MW2 see the wholesale slaughter of civilians. Acid-tongued CNN readers suggest that the only terrorism is the cancellation of dedicated servers.
To discuss these and many other topics are:
Rudedog from fpsadmin.com
Garetjax from codtv.tv
Bleed from omnilinkit.com
and our guests:
Josh from planetmedalofhonor.com and planetcallofduty.com
console expert Mattks from weplaycod.blogspot.com
competitive player, Andy “The Impaler” Coons from Loaded (goloaded.com)
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November 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I have no problem with the violence in the airport scene. The game is rated, so young kids shouldn’t be playing without their parents permission. Plus, it makes the game much more interesting and compelling. It’s realism and I think most movies include these kinds of scenes. They should only be left out at the developers discretion. For example, in the few months, maybe even a year or so after 9-11 I wouldn’t have played the airport scene. But that isn’t a problem now.