Yea, saw this in the other thread.

No thanks, I'd rather skip it. Great job Game Informer of telling me to simply drop my pants and take it from Infinity Ward and Activison while they remove the experience of a PC game to make it mirror the console versions.

What would piss me off more is if they do bring back dedicated servers, but it's like Resistance 1 and 2 where only matchmaking earns you XP.

So the game is worse and will cost more?

I'm pretty sure the consumer making a choice based on the quality of a product is what a free market is founded on.

I guess if you are offered a defective car you're supposed to suck it up and buy it or you're a nerd for asking too much of a car or making a choice based on your preferences.

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Well I bet most of those guys who signed that petition are cheaters and pirates. I have no sympathy for cheaters, play the game as it was intended. If you want to mod the game, become a developer and make the game you want and mod it as much as you want.

These developers and publishers put so much time and money into a product, just to see it destroyed or given away for free at the expense of the general public who just want to play the game as it was designed.

This isn't about piracy at all that is just an excuse Activision is using to convince people they are not getting screwed over.

Cracking down on mods is actually a danger to the quality of the game, Left 4 Dead was made because of how popular the zombie mod was in counter strike.

Thanks for clearing that up, i thought he meant it was infinity ward, so my bad.

I'm sorry, but it doesn't seem like you understand what makes this such a big issue. No, it's not piracy and cheating.

It's about the lack of dedicated servers and custom content (user mods/maps), as well as the destruction of a PC gaming community and forcing everyone into a closed P2P matchmaking system. This isn't about cheating (except for what people think about Valve's Anti-Cheat versus the previously used Punkbuster) and custom mods/maps aren't the same as cheating.

In fact, some games have roots to user made mods like Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Counter-Strike, Killing Floor, Red Orchestra, and Counter-Strike to name some off the top of my head. Not only that, user mods of games have been noticed by developers and have gotten the makers employment. For example, the maker of the Minerva Half-Life 2 mod was hired by Valve. Also, games can sometimes have official map packs released that consist of user made maps (Team Fortress 2 comes to mind). Also, people can use custom mods for the competitive scene where they can add balances and such to the game to have tournaments.

Infinity Ward released the tools for the users in a patch and even held a user made map contest.

May we have it in a sentence please?

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