Youmean that they pay you $5.10 right? Because that's my only condition, I'd have to be paid to play this game.

I don't think modern PC gamers know what ping is, or how it works, or how games in generally should be. Only way to explain the sudden rise of PC sales of shitty games. The only explanation I can think of is that console players are graduating to the PC and bringing their low expectations, I can back this up with evidence if anyone doubts it, along for the ride.

I hear ya. This is going to sound elitest and stuff but im sorry its not ment to be. But console only gamers are, in general, noobs...=0). They play cut down shit versions of games, ie Dragon Age Origins, and just except that. Then they come on the interwebz and tell PC gamers that MW2 is teh pwnage and we all dont know nothing. Eventhough there are MANY MANY problems with that game, ie no dedicated servers and FFS why do I have to pay $60 for a god damn PC game. EVEN THE STEAM digital downlaod is $60! WHY? Leave that money grubing shit to the console market. ( On a side note I do own and play console games but I dont pay $60 for anything. I just bought MLB 10 TS for $53 on amazon. Thats $11 cheaper than if i got it from a store with tax )

Sorry for the rant and i really don't mean to offend, eventhough im sure I have done so.

In short Fuck MW2.

OT: Bad Company 2. Ok im about this close | | to buy thig on steam today. Whats the deal? Why does this game rock?

The game doesn't rock. It actually sucks. It just sucks less than usual games, which is sad that that is all it takes for a game to "rock" nowadays here's the post, read the quotes for my impression:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?post=3318450&page=1&postnum=9

Also here is the evidence I mentioned:

"It's not a shift in focus, but more like somewhere we wanted to explore. I think what happened was, consoles have reached a level where we could introduce people to something we had been giving to PC players for quite a while. It was an exciting opportunity. So we really focused on that. There are more expectations of us, for the PC game. It almost kind of makes you weary, you get nervous, you put these unrealistic expectations on yourself as a developer. You forget that the whole premise is to get something out there that's really fun. We realized that BC2 was going to provide that. We have a lot to live up to on the PC, and I think the original Bad Company's focus was to kind of...reintroduce Battlefield to a new audience on the console. BC2 is like, maybe in retrospect, we could have given BC1 to the PC but we didn't. We didn't feel like it was worth it to go back and try and do that, but we thought, "Well, let's give them BC2." It lived up to expectations, I think, what PC players were expecting. Especially for a new engine."

That is straight from DICE's mouth in an interview. Once you remove all the PR bullshit it basically becomes "We can't half-ass things on the PC because we will get chewed out, but the console owners will lap up any shit we give them since they don't know any better." Which I guess is kind of insulting, but it seems very true at the same time. I wish there was some way to open the yes of console owners, but I swear, it's harder than making a horse drink.

Okay, here's a little preview of my time playing the multiplayer thus far.

It's a Call of Duty game through and through. You're running around and shooting weapons with a high rate of fire and you move on. I played the heck out of Call of Duty 4 when I used to have GameFly and honestly, I'm rather bored of the Call of Duty experience and this doesn't change much of anything. It's certainly not 'utter shit', but it's only decent in my opinion.

For a number of rounds it wasn't bad and I'd constantly check my ping and it looked fine. I was playing alright even though the matchmaking apparently thought I was amazing enough to play with players level 50+. However, there were a couple stumbles when we're all set to start a game and when the timer hit zero, the lobby closes and the wait was for nothing. After an hour or two, the peer-to-peer connection became an ugly experience when a host decided to quit early in the match making the rest of the match run in slow motion and run terribly.

I didn't spent a whole lot of time with Call of Duty 4 on PC, but I did get to partake in the World at War PC beta and while I did tire of the experience rather quickly, I was playing in servers with a low ping and there would be 30+ players in them. Seems like a waste to ruin that and instead give you a lower player count with more connection issues.

MW2 doesn't matchmake based on levels.  In fact, I think it only matches based on connectivity(region, ping, etc).

Well it certainly doesn't help that the nearest people to me are all really high level :P

Well, it's the last day and a half or so of the free weekend and I must say that I'm already rather bored of Modern Warfare 2. Perhaps I'll try and experiment with other game modes, but outside of the few popular modes that have over a few thousand players, the other game modes sport less than 1,000 players each and it seems rather rare to get into one of those matches that actually starts AND be in one where lag doesn't make it unplayable.

To be honest, I find myself preferring other games like Team Fortress 2, Battlefield (2 or Bad Company 2), MAG or Killzone 2 over this.

Think about positives mine is still redownloading because activision couldn't even prapare pre-download properly.

Hey STOP!!! dont talk bad about Gamespot, its a great web site with great communitiy.Gametraileres is the one filled with trolls