So I go to work today and I honestly don't feel like working so I waste my time on the nets. What's new that wasnt on Friday afternoon I wonder. Atlantis launched off for a supply mission, a NASCAR with an emblazoned NINTENDO on it, Russia bans MW2 due to the first level, MW2 cracked... wait what? So here it is, day 6 after launch. My knee jerk reaction was to make a post here, and I did, but I guess that post was rather small compared to wha has happened to MW2 over the weekend.

Not only did a whole lot of the games options become available (console, FOV, and other cvars) but apparently IWNet was cracvked and dedicated servers are also running, fully customizable, ON IWNET WHILE BEING RANKED. No need for Steam, no need for VAC, low grav servers, unlimited ammo servers, all kinds of servers, and even leans is supposedly is back on some of them, WHILE RANKED ON IWNET as well.

So what has been learned from this ordeal? I guess a few things:

a) Pirates support their games a whole lot better than developers do

b) Your game WILL be cracked, the more bullshit you do to your game the faster

c) Pirate copy >> $60 copy

I called up a friend who accidentally bought this game, meaning I kinda forgot to tell him with what they were doing to the PC version so he didn't know, and now he is downloading a copy just so he can get in on the "fun servers,"  which are apparently packed. IW, it's a sad day that even the people who bought the game legally prefer the pirate copy of your own.

Now all eyes are on IW I guess, if they do anything other than add in dedicated server support (which is obviously very doable) then MW2 will have record setting downloading stats. Their only reasonable option is for them to come out and say that they were stupid and to add in all the functoinality that MW1 had.

There are like four threads about this already.

I just thought I'd bring all the separate ideas into the overarching one of just how miserably IW/AV failed to handle this game properly. Also just to clarify it real quick, there are no true dedicated servers, just same old P2P servers but with all sorts of customizations, which is also funny because I bet there's a hell of a lot less hackers on those than on the legit servers. However people ar apparently already working on porting over the dedicated server code from MW1 over to MW2.Overall I just find it amusing every time a company screws consumers just to be screwed right back, such as IWNet's own servers being flooded with pirates.

Edit: I made a final stop over at the official IW forums and they are so untouched by moderators that there are instructions on how to set these things up right there on their own forum. I wonder if that's a sign that IW just gave up....

It now seems like people have enabled transmitting a trojan through the game. Run full anti-virus if you are playing this online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rqLUDfl26Y

I kinda like the music. Its f-uped but i like it :D

And btw.. isn't that Brecourt, the first map in that video?? Wth?

I just can't help but feel we're in a too tech savvy world for intellectual property laws to work.

Developers and Publishers need to learn to go to alternate ways of making money... like the MMO model... particularly the Free MMO model. That seems to rake in cash for most projects.

It does, they make a lot of moneys just because of the vanity of people. If it work in Asia surely it would be amazing in such a consumerist place as the US here.  Different skins, clothes, whatever would be a real hot piece of property if done right in the US. Though nothing that affects gameplay should be given out, such as experience bouses, dmg or health or whatever. Just consmetics and it should be perfect.