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Staude on 04 November 2009
SeriousWB said:

"Ignoring IW.net, is the PC version a direct port of the console version?"

02:54 Moriarte

"No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings."

02:55 Mackey-IW  (Mackey-Infinity Ward staff, November 2009)

 

Wow, I have IW all wrong, they deserve more credit.  Text chat in game =o

 

BASHandslash article

 

Lowlights from the BestBuy Dev chat with IW regarding MW2:

  • Dedicated server questions were greeted by being escorted out of the chat.
  • Max players for all versions is 9v9. Yes, I said 9v9.
  • No record feature in MW2 for PC.
  • No lean in the PC version (Mackey-IW: The game is not balanced for lean.)
  • PC Game is not yet finished*

*probably alludes to the fact that there will be future patches given reports that the PC SKU has already shipped.

My fave Q&A:

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Is there a console in the PC version of the game, so we can change our field of view from the xbox's default 65 FOV to 80 also can we tweaks the weapon damage for each gun, removes perks, graphical debris, breathing sway, also thru console like we where able to before or is this all gone?

Vince-IW
We would like you to play the game the way we designed and balanced it.


Here is the transcript of the chat.

 

 

Whos gonna take a picture of the transcript and upload it to failblog ?



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Reasonable on 04 November 2009

Guess Valve more or less have PC to themselves now for FPS, plus a nice little earner with L4D franchise on 360.

gotta say, 9v9 on PC with no-dedicated servers, limited access to settings and a closed infrastructure = no deal on PC.

I'll still get this on PS3 cause my teenage son prefers console anyway, but my PC order is now dust. Guess L4D2 is my next PC purchase after all - just when I was going to be bitter and delay buying it a few weeks 'cause Valve dared to release it too soon!



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vlad321 on 04 November 2009
Garnett said:

Fucking xbox! The piece of shit is already maxed out, therefore its affecting PC games too!

 

 

im kidding btw

I've been saying this for years. The soonder consoles go back to being consoles, the sooner Shooters, RPGs, and a bunch of other genres can stop being utterly shitty.



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welshbloke on 04 November 2009

9 v 9

They are aving a larf. Infinity killed the PC Star, come back Treyarch all is forgiven.



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JaggedSac on 04 November 2009
vlad321 said:
Garnett said:

Fucking xbox! The piece of shit is already maxed out, therefore its affecting PC games too!

 

 

im kidding btw

I've been saying this for years. The soonder consoles go back to being consoles, the sooner Shooters, RPGs, and a bunch of other genres can stop being utterly shitty.

If all PC gamers would pay for their games, then the PC platform could be seen as a sole distribution for big budget games.  As it is now, that cost is hard to justify.  Currently, the pc platform is comprised of mainly MMORPGs, low cost games, and PC/console developements.

If PC sales were a large percentage of CoD 4's revenue, I doubt they would be giving such a giant fuck you to all that money.  Unless of course pc gamers are mindless zombies just like console gamers.



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jefforange89 on 04 November 2009
JaggedSac said:
vlad321 said:
Garnett said:

Fucking xbox! The piece of shit is already maxed out, therefore its affecting PC games too!

 

 

im kidding btw

I've been saying this for years. The soonder consoles go back to being consoles, the sooner Shooters, RPGs, and a bunch of other genres can stop being utterly shitty.

If all PC gamers would pay for their games, then the PC platform could be seen as a sole distribution for big budget games.  As it is now, that cost is hard to justify.  Currently, the pc platform is comprised of mainly MMORPGs, low cost games, and PC/console developements.

If PC sales were a large percentage of CoD 4's revenue, I doubt they would be giving such a giant fuck you to all that money.  Unless of course pc gamers are mindless zombies just like console gamers.

You act like piracy only exists on PC.

And moreover, if games weren't shitty in the first place, and were worth the purchase, people would buy them.  Look at Valve and Blizzard games, for example, they sell tons.

And also, fun fact:  a lot of people who pirate a game probably wouldn't have paid money for it in the first place if that were the only option.



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JaggedSac on 04 November 2009
jefforange89 said:
JaggedSac said:

If all PC gamers would pay for their games, then the PC platform could be seen as a sole distribution for big budget games.  As it is now, that cost is hard to justify.  Currently, the pc platform is comprised of mainly MMORPGs, low cost games, and PC/console developements.

If PC sales were a large percentage of CoD 4's revenue, I doubt they would be giving such a giant fuck you to all that money.  Unless of course pc gamers are mindless zombies just like console gamers.

You act like piracy only exists on PC.

And moreover, if games weren't shitty in the first place, and were worth the purchase, people would buy them.  Look at Valve and Blizzard games, for example, they sell tons.

And also, fun fact:  a lot of people who pirate a game probably wouldn't have paid money for it in the first place if that were the only option.

Ok, well, so I guess it is just because console gamers spend more money than PC gamers on games and developers are more willing to cater to them than to PC gamers, because there is more revenue there.



JaggedSac on 04 November 2009

http://www.vg247.com/2009/10/28/brink-boss-pc-only-projects-cannot-justify-triple-a-budgets/

Brink boss – PC-only sales cannot “justify” triple-A budgets

Splash Damage boss Paul Wedgwood has said that PC-only projects simply cannot attract enough money from publishers to create triple-A results.

“About two or three years ago we realised that we really wouldn’t survive if we only made PC games, since purely making PC games was incompatible with our goal of making triple-A games,” said the developer, demoing current project Brink yesterday at the EG Expo in Leeds.

“You just can’t get the publisher budget to ever [use] an orchestra in London, and then go and record at Abbey Road and get the best voice actors if you’re only going to release on the PC, where there isn’t the sales to justify that kind of work.”

Wedgwood added: “Because we needed to make that transition, I started playing console games,” and that he now plays “a lot more time playing console stuff” than PC games.

Wedgwood’s background is from the PC mod scene. He told the Expo audience that he originally resisted console gaming because he considered himself to be “hardcore PC guy,” but “loved it” and got “more and more into it”.

For the record, Brink looks properly, properly awesome. Hopefully we’ll be able to show it to you soon. It’s out for PC, 360 and PS3 next spring.



IllegalPaladin on 04 November 2009
bRoKeN said:
wasnt the max for cod4 16v16 for pc?

You could hop into servers with 40+ players, but I think the unmodded server cap was indeed 32.



Khuutra on 04 November 2009
vlad321 said:
Garnett said:

Fucking xbox! The piece of shit is already maxed out, therefore its affecting PC games too!

 

 

im kidding btw

I've been saying this for years. The soonder consoles go back to being consoles, the sooner Shooters, RPGs, and a bunch of other genres can stop being utterly shitty.

This particular rhetoric is starting to give me a headache ad you do it in almost every topic.