Since shooters are considered hardcore, you're saying majority of hardcore gamers are pirates. Who are these people that are buying MW2? Probably the casuals.

So true... I mean they couldnt possibly sign it because they were looking forward to the game only to find out three weeks before it was released that the PC version was completely gimped?

Fact is that it isnt easy to get a game running on a pirate server, even after bypassing steam... ever consider that the people signing the petitions were just generally pissed off at how they were being treated?

On PC, of course. All the people I've come in contact with who play PC games have been at least moderate if not huge pirates. And this is in Sweden which is an extremely rich country.

Yet, there exists people who buy games from time to time, and is the reason why MW2 PC version has sold some copies (a couple of millions if not more). But they are a minority, especially from a global perspective (include South America, Russia, Poliand and others who are big PC gaming nations).

Oh that's so immature.

Just don't buy the game already.

IW can do as they want.

Signing a petition is ok but going on websites like amazon and metacritic to give a bad score is stupid.

Why is it stupid? It's giving a warning to people that don't know about the gimping of the game to avoid it. Let's face it, you can't exactly rely on the tame gaming press to report these sort of things adequately, at least not if they want exclusives and the likes from the publishers.

I could write a macro to add about 10,000 more pretty easily.

Do it, then.

Of course we are.

And of course, all Wii gamers are either children or grandmothers, all 360 gamers have owned at least three of the console due to the RROD.  Stereotypes ftw!

I will write the macro and you run it :) petitiononline didn't like it when I altered their encoding key and tried to send the request. That would have allowed me to use an actual language to make the requests. But a simple macro can do it. Just have to make up e-mail addresses and hope they are correct. Some simple ones like John@hotmail.com and then John1@hotmail.com, etc., etc.

Pretty much, yeah. Not all, but the majority are.