Modern Warfare 2 PC release starts with DVD Errors !!

[randomizer]

I've heard that argument before, and it doesn't hold water. CoD:MW2 is the only game I've ever seen on Steam for $90. Other new releases either go for $50 or $60 USD - never $90. Clearly other devs and other games don't have this problem, this is purely a money-grabbing exercise which has backfired on them badly (note Borderlands and other indie games are outselling it on Steam - for precisely this reason).

Red Faction Guerilla was (is?) $40 in the US, and $70 in Aus. Far Cry 2 was $40 in the US, $60 here (I think it's the same now though). It's not uncommon to have the price higher here, especially for the first year.

[SubZero.it]

Modern Warfail

Lol
Guys we have to focus on BC2 now, this should be really interesting...hoping they won't destroy it a month before release like MW2

[strange|ife]

jesus christ /facepalm

[Xoulz]

DICE must be loving IW's abuse of trust with it's community.

Battlefield series just got a massive boost.

[Anemic]

They just keep messing things up over and over again...I was so much looking forward to playing this game!!

[SoulsCollective]

Red Faction Guerilla was (is?) $40 in the US, and $70 in Aus. Far Cry 2 was $40 in the US, $60 here (I think it's the same now though). It's not uncommon to have the price higher here, especially for the first year.

$60 =/ $90. $60 is a small price premium over US prices, $90 is almost double standard game price and 150% of the price of a copy on Steam in the US. Quite a big difference there.

[Mad1723]

They've already got their bases covered. Game operates completely through Steam, so no returns.

Their forums will burn then Infinity Wards and Steam forums will probably be overloaded with player who didn't know the facts about the game and bought it anyway

[FischOderAal]

Do I think the game is decent? I think it WOULD'VE BEEN the best pc game ever! My opinion of course. But destroying the pc community with their actions of late I will not play the pc version!!!

Well said!

I've been pretty much waiting for this game since the release of the first MW and then in a couple of weeks the whole game got killed for me. For me personally, CoD is DEAD as a brick.

Shame on you IW

[YukonTrooper]

Wow. "When it rains it pours."

[Helloworld_98]

annoyed because they've already shipped my pre-order,

well at least ubisoft and DICE will get a nice haul in the new year, AC2 and BF:BC2 are gonna be awesome!

[SimonD]

Luckily I managed to warn a couple of my buddies about MW2 last night. It could have been so good.

[|Oc|REvO_HsArC]

any chance the extras DVD plays on x360?

loool

[kow_ciller]

Luckily I managed to warn a couple of my buddies about MW2 last night. It could have been so good.

I've been doing the same. I was even able to get a few buddies that play on 360 to not buy it because they see the BS as well.

[ChinStrap]

Do I think the game is decent? I think it WOULD'VE BEEN the best pc game ever! My opinion of course.

Agree.

Before the whole DS thing went public, this game had the hype. Oh man. Then they took a dump on us.

[ripken204]

OP, I don't think this is going to be a real problem since most PC gamers are just gonna download it.

But this is indeed fail on a large scale, they already lost a crapload of money and now this screw up.

i bought COD4 and COD WaW purely for the multiplayer..
now i will admit i dloaded COD4 and played the SP, which i loved.
that caused me to buy it for the MP.

[DragoonXX]

I'm personally typically a person who buys games based on offline play (I don't have much time do dedicate to online play/no real drive for playing online) but I liked the single player play of MW1, price was decent enough (got it for like 30 bucks I think) to be worth it for me...MW2...not seeing it

[initialised]

That's why I use steam, shame it doesn't unlock for 2 days. Not that I'm bothered about COD6

Just got back from ASDA (UK branches of the Walmart retail behemoth), fairly big queue around the store, not as big as for Harry Potter 7 though.

[Flanman]

I've been doing the same. I was even able to get a few buddies that play on 360 to not buy it because they see the BS as well.

i ran into a kid that i graduated with last night who was heading to best buy to pick it up for the midnight release and i was talking about how i wasn't getting it because of how pc got shafted, his friend jumps in and tells me to stop being an elitist pc and just get a console already. all i wanted to do was ask him how his sister was and how he liked it when somebody pressed stand by on their router while in a mp game

[Helloworld_98]

i ran into a kid that i graduated with last night who was heading to best buy to pick it up for the midnight release and i was talking about how i wasn't getting it because of how pc got shafted, his friend jumps in and tells me to stop being an elitist pc and just get a console already. all i wanted to do was ask him how his sister was and how he liked it when somebody pressed stand by on their router while in a mp game

console gamers, most of them are like that,

on a more annoying note, just installed MW2, and steam is downloading a ridiculously big update, it's still at 0% after 10 minutes on a 3mb connection, maybe someone's hacked steam and it's downloading a virus or something.

UPDATE: it's at 1%!!!!!!!

[metachronos]

DICE must be loving IW's abuse of trust with it's community.

Battlefield series just got a massive boost.

DICE has never been that great, have we forgotten how they have mishandled the battlefield series? When BF2 first came out, and for the first few years after, every successive patch introduced more problems than it solved. Then they released an okay expansion and two crappy mini-expansions that could just as easily have been free content. Then they stopped caring about BF2 and released that cash-in travesty that was BF2142.

[randomizer]

They released a new patch for BF2 only a few months ago, it wasn't forgotten, just put on the proverbial backburner for a long, long time.

[yonton228]

DICE has never been that great, have we forgotten how they have mishandled the battlefield series? When BF2 first came out, and for the first few years after, every successive patch introduced more problems than it solved. Then they released an okay expansion and two crappy mini-expansions that could just as easily have been free content. Then they stopped caring about BF2 and released that cash-in travesty that was BF2142.

As much as I LOVED BF2, DICE really did fudge up BF2 big time with about 2 patches. Not that the others didnt have issues.....but 1.3 was a whole nother story.



yonton228

[randomizer]

Didn't the first BF2 patch introduce a memory leak that required server restarts every few hours?

[metachronos]

Possibly, I remember the one patch introduced frequent crashes to desktop and the constant tug of war between balancing aircraft against anti-air.

What I also don't get is why people are treating MW2 and Bad Company 2 as mutually exclusive. Some people will buy both, some will buy neither. It isn't a sophie's choice by any means.

[Philip_J_Fry]

not sure if this was just exageration or fact: but

Modern Warfare 2 sells 7 million copies on day one
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=5826

VGChartz preliminary day one figures puts the sales to date (including the midnight launches) at over 7 million copies worldwide across Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Around 55% of sales are on Xbox 360, 33% on PS3 and the remaining 12% on PC. In terms of regional breakdowns, over 4.2 million units were sold in the Americas (3.7 million USA), 1.2 million in the UK and 350,000 each in France and Germany.

Based on the day one figures and the Tuesday release, week one figures should come in at close to ten million units which smashes the 5.92 million week one record set by Grand Theft Auto 4 last year and positions Modern Warfare 2 as the most successful game launch of all time.

In fact, even on a single format (Xbox 360), week one sales are projected to come in at around 5.5 million units - this alone is enough to be the fastest-seller of all time, even without the PS3 and PC versions as you can see below: