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Mudface on 11 November 2009
nojacko said:

Seriously why the fuck should PC gamers get dedicated servers and not console gamers? PC games are cheaper (or free if your naughty) and pretty much always get free map packs where console gamers have to pay for them.

Heh.

So why aren't you complaining about being ripped off? Why aren't you demanding free map packs and dedicated servers? Why are you allowing publishers to get away with this? Why are you dopey cunts trolling this forum instead of supporting PC gamers looking for better value and better experiences?

Baaa.



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Alby_da_Wolf on 11 November 2009

I can't believe so many people are getting mad at PC gamers, flooding this thread with nonsense and hatred.
Just the most precious pearl of all this raving, people whining about the boycott and then accusing boycotters of being pirates: this is really very dumb, if they are pirates, the boycott doesn't really change anything, so stop whining!
But the reality is that somebody is eating crow seeing PC gamers rebeling and not accepting policies they don't like. This is envy, pure and simple.



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nojacko on 11 November 2009
Mudface said:
nojacko said:

Seriously why the fuck should PC gamers get dedicated servers and not console gamers? PC games are cheaper (or free if your naughty) and pretty much always get free map packs where console gamers have to pay for them.

Heh.

So why aren't you complaining about being ripped off? Why aren't you demanding free map packs and dedicated servers? Why are you allowing publishers to get away with this? Why are you dopey cunts trolling this forum instead of supporting PC gamers looking for better value and better experiences?

Baaa.

Well I'm not complaining am I? I know what the situation is before I buy the game, as do PC gamers and what are you doing? Complaining! You've still got it better than everyone else so why don't you support console "gamers looking for better value and better experience"? Probably because you know if our games where cheaper and we got free stuff you'd probably have to pay me.

I saw this post on the front page, read the first post and had to post something. 

With the MP down on PS3 I have a right to complain because on the back of the box it bigs up the MP and I'm not getting it... but whatever I'll do other things.



Mudface on 11 November 2009

I have no idea what point you're trying to make there. Are you simple?



shio on 11 November 2009
Ail said:
shio said:
nightsurge said:
vlad321 said:
nightsurge said:
vlad321 said:
nightsurge said:
To clarify, I am not saying that the petition is filled with pirates signatures. I was not defending that remark by whoever I quoted. I know very well why people who only get games like this on PC are upset. It's basically a console port with mouse + keyboard support, completely taking out everything that made it unique on PC. I understand all that and that's the reason why I will only be getting it on 360 now rather than on both. I was merely adding to the whole "most PC gamers are pirates" generalization since in my experience as well, it sure seems this way.

That's funny cause statistics who that your experience maybe just that, your experience.

Nah, I think it's the experience of most people, actually, or if not the majority, then at least 1/3 or higher and it will soon be the majority..  Especially when recent PC developers have said that their game's online component is being played by 80% pirates....

Someone already provided the link to show that pirates aren't as much as buyers, can you provide me with actual statistics to show otherwise?

That was just a list of 2008 only.... CoD4 released in 2007.... DemiGod had 80% piracy.  CoD4 had 830,000 downloads in the year after its release... I wonder with the frontloaded holidays if it had 3x that amount in 2007.  No one has shown me any 2007 stats yet.  With CoD4 on PC only having an estimated 1-3 million retail sales, it makes sense that a large portion (of at least one third for most games and much higher for others, which will only keep growing) of the people playing the actual game are pirates.  Why else would IW not release any info on the PC only sales, and then with the next game iteration they only develop a console version?

COD4 PC made far more than just 3 million on retail, you must be tripping. And that's not even including the digital sales AND deals with GPU manufacturers.

Dude, you're the last guy on earth to believe this.

None of the numbers released by Activision validate this, they all validate sells in the 1-3 millions range units...( retail AND digital, when you speak of revenue it's all the same for Activision in the end).

You're out of your mind, Activision NEVER gave any numbers about the PC version, EVER.

COD4 PC was a huge success, and even that idiot Bowling dude from IW said that it had tremendous sales on PC.

COD4 PC is closer to 10 millions than to 2 millions definitely.



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vlad321 on 11 November 2009
Ail said:
vlad321 said:

That's what I'm saying too. PC gamers have really high standards, obviosuly most people can't meet them except for a few. So what would you in their situation? Find an audience that is liek sheep and doesn't mind getting shafted over and over and over! Enter the console players.

Also stop with Assassin's Creed, that game was a repetative joke of a game. In the previous thread we also saw that none of Valve's or Blizzard's game even came in the top 10.

I also don't see how piracy affected Origin considering back then piracy was nowhere near as spread as it is now. Those were the 56k days and their games came on 5 discs, so no, piracy did NOT put them out of business. It hasn't put ANYONE out of business, it's just a scapegoat shitty developers use to justify their shitty games. Then they take their shitty games and make millions off console players.

I'm not sure I would call high standards 'wanting the best games in the world and not wanting to pay a penny for them...'

That's like saying you have high standards because you only steal Ferraris and won't touch Toyota Camri...

This wuld be all too true... if only Blizzard and Valve weren't getting ridiculous amounts of money.

 

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crak-a-lak on 11 November 2009

I own a PC capable of running MW2 but I consider myself to be more of a console gamer. Anyway based on the projected sales data, it is clear that the PC is becoming less and less of a priority to IW. I saw a PC guy's rant on youtube about how MW2 on PC will no longer have dedicated severs, and will have DLC that cost money this time around. Why are PC gamers so mad that they have to actually have to pay for DLC now? With MW1 PC gamers got for free what console gamers had to pay for. Console gamers are the ones that have the right to be mad. So now that the PC market share has become lower than the console market share, in terms of sales of MW2, PC gamers want IW to cater to your community (the community that it is profiting least on). This just doesn't make any business sense. Get over it PC gamers and buy the game because you are only doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. I bet that if IW sold zero copies of the PC version of the game that they are still making crazy money. That scenario isn't going to happen though because they know that those that will buy the game will outnumber the ones actually boycotting the game.



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vlad321 on 11 November 2009
crak-a-lak said:
I own a PC capable of running MW2 but I consider myself to be more of a console gamer. Anyway based on the projected sales data, it is clear that the PC is becoming less and less of a priority to IW. I saw a PC guy's rant on youtube about how MW2 on PC will no longer have dedicated severs, and will have DLC that cost money this time around. Why are PC gamers so mad that they have to actually have to pay for DLC now? With MW1 PC gamers got for free what console gamers had to pay for. Console gamers are the ones that have the right to be mad. So now that the PC market share has become lower than the console market share, in terms of sales of MW2, PC gamers want IW to cater to your community (the community that it is profiting least on). This just doesn't make any business sense. Get over it PC gamers and buy the game because you are only doing yourself a disservice by not playing it. I bet that if IW sold zero copies of the PC version of the game that they are still making crazy money. That scenario isn't going to happen though because they know that those that will buy the game will outnumber the ones actually boycotting the game.

Because DLC can be easily copied as a mod form he community for free. Why pay for sosme extra maps whe the community is churning them out constanly for free? I have not bought a single piece of DLC yet and I never plan to.



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Mudface on 11 November 2009

Console gamers are the ones that have the right to be mad.


So why aren't they?

Baa.



heruamon on 11 November 2009

LOL...looking at the sales breakdown from DAY ONE of the launch of the game...errr.....IW isn't going to sweat that 200K figure.



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