IW bombed on this by taking a series known for that and taking it away. (And I still say private is best there because when the company drops the game, it can live on that way.) ID’s idea of multiplayer (at least aside from Quake LIVE) is 4 player deathmatch.

On the subject od Console releases. They are unpoven in the “platform Strength” department having not launched a title written for all platforms – yet. Rage looks OK but it is the iDTech 5 engine that is the real thing to watch. I hope, just like Crytek with CryEngine3, that they do manage a scalable engine that plays to each machines strengths BUT iD have already started moaning on the PS3 for not enough power and poor architecture sowing the seed of doubt for performance. Surely if Crytek (multiplatform), Epic (multiplatform), Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Kojima etc can sort this out they can. Otherwise it is just another portal platform that will reduce textures for the limited Xbox360 storage and reduce frame rate or texture clarity for the “hard to code for” PS3. Interesting times lay ahead for sure – either way the PC engine will rock bells

My gripes are solidly with IW and Activision.

I will retract the “most are probably pirating stuff” comment as it was a little too generic & was ill thought out I do know several people that are complaining do tho. IW are looking to cut their own costs so don;t want to host anything.

cheers all – I was just being Devil’s Advocate on this post

While I dont gripe them the mods (annoying, but ok), I DO gripe them dropping what the software can do.. Im reminded of the Tallest in Zim: “It’s not stupid… it’s ADVANCED!”

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… seriously? Sorry, but nearly every PC gamer I know legitimately buys games, and none of us are hackers or pirates. I personally have played games I didn’t pay for only because I borrowed them from friends, and that’s been a grand total of about 3 games.

I have a game list of 50+ PC titles that I have paid well for, and I personally don’t enjoy companies deciding what I want for me; not having Dedicated servers in MW2 makes me angry, but moreso, I’m miffed because IW claims they’ve done that because it’s what gamers want. Turning the PC into a platform that is exclusively for ported versions of console games is NOT what I want.

Developers play on the strengths of consoles; Xbox360 and PS3 trade various visual effects based on what they handle best, they do optimization for those systems. People shouldn’t be angry because PC happens to be strong both in graphics and choice.

I’m sorry if choosing a server from a list is too hard for you when you use a platform controller, but I’m perfectly capable of doing so with a mouse.

Valve has a good solution to avoiding modded dedicated servers (IW claims they got rid of dedicated server to make it easier for casual players to find standard servers); adding server tags. It’s so easy to write a program to read the server config and pick out key changes/tweaks and list them in a list of tags. Users can then search to include or exclude various tags. Example: Team Fortress 2. I want to play on a standard TF2 server… All i need do is click a button that says “include tags:” and type in the word “vanilla”. Problem solved. As far as hacking/cheating, once again, Valve has it right. Valve Anti-Cheat system has been wildly successful in stopping cheaters. I’ve played TF2 and L4D since they came out, and not once have I played in a server where someone was hacking.