shio on 24 October 2009
| JaggedSac said: The choice to remove dedicated servers was made for a reason, it was not a quick decision I am sure. Whatever reason it was, was obviously a greater concern than upsetting the pc gaming audience. Even the most dull of people would know this decision would cause a stir. Nothing is happening here, not even the petition, that is unexpected. So understanding this, it is obvious that the monetary gain from this reason, would offset the pc gaming audience that decides not to buy the game. The only way Activision will care is if the amount lost due to the decision is more than they expected. At which point, something may be done on their end to rectify the issue. Otherwise, pc gaming sales could matter less and less to them in the future. |
The only explanation for their decision is to curb User-created content, so as to justify selling their DLC. Why do you think they spent resources just to make IW.NET? It would've been cheaper to just support dedicated servers. Then are doing this to sell DLC, and eliminate mods.
IW.NET won't stop piracy at all, even Infinity Ward said so themselves. Their only measure to fight piracy was to make MW2 Steam-integrated, which is a good decision.
EDIT: I didn't start those rumors. I have only said that I believe COD4 sold amazing and had a great chance to not be far from 10 millions lifetime on PC. but the 8 million figure was from some other dude.
