Gamer gives up on COD: MW2 and turns towards Battlefield Bad Company 2

When Infinity Ward announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would not have dedicated server support there was a huge backlash from the gaming community. It looks like one gamer is showing his appreciation to DICE for supporting dedicated servers with money.

A new post on the official Battlefield: Bad Company 2 blog displays a letter sent in by a gamer showing some love for DICE, an EA-owned studio. It looks like DICE blacked out some key words in the letter such as: “Infinity Ward” and “COD:MW2.” The gamer felt so strongly against Infinity Ward’s actions he sent in $60, the amount he would have spent on buying Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, made out to DICE.

Even though $60 is a small amount, this letter is definitely makes a strong statement. I wouldn’t be surprised to see others following in similar footsteps. There is a boycott for COD:MW2, and it currently has over 43k signatures. That adds up to about $2.6 million in lost potential sales. Infinity Ward may want to rethink its “price jacking-no dedicated server support” strategy.

Seems like Infinity Ward has a real issue it should deal with. though this guy did go to an extreme by just sending out a check like that.

Somebody really likes their dedicated server O_O

"Hey bill you got that check for the dedicated server?"

"Cool wanna go to applebee's?"

Well i hate matchmaking, and it seems that is where console games are all heading. PC games have had multiplayer right almost since the begining with lobbies and dedicated servers hosted by ISP's and clans, i don't understand why consoles have to do multiplayer any different.

IW won't care - MW2 is a console game through and through, and rather than a PC version (as with CoD4) this time they're simply releasing the console version on PC with M&K added and a few sliders for graphics.

Which is there choice and fine, but I won't be supporting it on PC and won't be getting the game as it simply doesn't fly for me from a features point of view.

I'll get it on PS3 - given it's a console title only I'd rather play it on one.

And ingame text chat. AWESOME

Damn you Halo 3! For making this bs popular! I hate matchmaking so much and it's in every online MP game now! :(

If i wanted to buy MW2 at all I'd make sure I'm getting it used to not support them after pc version crap they did.

I think battlefield is miles ahead of call if duty in fun :) destroyable buildings

I too hate matchmaking, I was once really into pro-gaming... clans and leagues. Dedicated server for each clan was the most important thing, there you've played trainings, clanwars, leagues, you could optimize settings, install mods (you could develop them yourself too). The game is getting so much more if it's open to amateur developers.

Now they are taking it all away... I hope this trend will not continue for much longer, as it is a gigantic stepback from what we've had before (10 years ago).

BTW Battlefield BC 2 looks leagues above COD MW2 (atleast visually)