| shio said: Over 217k people have signed the petition!! It is still growing! http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw |
There's a fundamental problem with the petition. It's potentially not credible. IF Infinity Ward received a petition with 500,000 signatures. They'd have to determine a couple of things
- Who signing the petition would actually buy the game if they made the requested changes.
Similarly
- Who is signing the petition just to sign the petition.
There is no control or structure to the petition. There is nothing stopping someone from voting more than once.
So lets say that out of the 217k "people" that signed the petition, they'd only receive an additional 56k sales from making the changes. Then they have to consider just how many more people would pirate the game if it was that much easier to play online. Would they lose that many sales from having a game that's easier to play online without paying for it?
I know its hard to understand but you have to approach this issue from both sides of the coin. Unfortunately the PC gaming community has etched a terrible name for themselves in the eyes of developers by pirating every piece of software known to man. Even if you look at the PC Game behemoths (Blizzard, EA, Valve, Relic, NCSOFT), they either made a name for themselves before piracy took hold or adhere to a subscription model where someone has to pay in order to play the game. And honestly, why should gamers really care if the next Starcraft can only be played on Battle.Net? B.Net has been amazing since its inception in the late 90's. And at this point, you are a moron or just plain stupid if you can't hook up a router to LAN party online.
The other issue comes from arguing that game developers are pushing for a closed system, and that console gamers should take heed. I don't really see the relevance of this argument. There should be nothing wrong with it. This is like an NRA member arguing that you shouldn't be able to control how many machine guns he has in his house. Xbox live members have been playing on closed servers for years and fully enjoy their experience. Some would argue that its because "they don't know any better", but that really only holds ground for a small percentage of the population. Some people just want to play the game and have fun.
And honestly, that is kind of where I stand on this. In the end , you have a few thousand people raising a stink over a video game. You are sitting there not having fun while millions are. If you don't want to play, then just don't buy it. But the active effort to sabotage the developer is nothing short of short sighted, immature, and a little sad. And it's not that I don't appreciate standing up for what you believe in. I just think your time should be spent on something that actually matters.
