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I wonder how the host is chosen ?

otherwise I'll buy the game and host a game since my ADSL is only 1024, I should host about 4 people and they all get 150ms ping hahahaha !
talk about cheating !

Hell, throw Starforce on there too at this point.

you know...
starforce ain't actually THAT bad in itself

one should know that starforce is highly customizable (found this somewhere on the net at some point)
and depending on options & strenght of protection chosen it can pose problems or not ....

X3 had starforce and while there was a few people getting problems, official forums weren't plagued by thousands of people having problems...

For me the main problem of Starforce was that it was chosen as a protection for foreign countries (like france) whereas there was no Protection Support in foreign language ... you absolutely had to speak english or be doomed if at some point you had a real problem with the protection which needed contacting the protection company (aka starforce) !!

so in fact it all boils down to what they want to do with it

Up on Steam... $60, even for digital version, no preorder bonus.

Bend over!

What US$? We here in NZ dream of that, 89.99 US Dollars with a Kiwi account!!!!! :evil: :x :shock:

Well that's what you get for not being as cool as the USA.

...

Kidding.

No, no, StarForce isn't that bad... as long as you don't mind a copy-protection system that can potentially break your hardware.

I was always hoping for some sort of lawsuit in the US from someone who had a drive bricked by StarForce. Would have been highly amusing.

Mach... $90? Yeesh, that's ridiculous.

Well that's what you get for not being as cool as the USA.

lol I had a good laugh at that !

No, no, StarForce isn't that bad... as long as you don't mind a copy-protection system that can potentially break your hardware.I was always hoping for some sort of lawsuit in the US from someone who had a drive bricked by StarForce. Would have been highly amusing.

As far as my knowledge on the matter goes, no one was actually able to prove that StarForce broke 100% fully functioning drives.... (read new)
Not saying it didn't happen, just saying that at some point you need proofs not just words :|
And it wasn't that widespread...

I have never played COD or COD4, but I love the PAYBACK action that is going on at the moment.

Check the server listing out for COD4 and the amount of BOYCOTT tages on them. I counted 350/470 servers with teh TAG. Great way to get a message across to the eejjots!

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=boycott

Cop that!

Modern Warfare 2 Adopts Steamworks on PC

So the game will require steam even if you buy it from elsewhere. I love it personally but I know lots of people will actively dislike it.

Steam is the hands down leader in offering a community focused experience on PC and the inclusion of Steamworks has allowed us to deliver the most feature-rich PC version to ever come from Infinity Ward, which at the end of the day will mean the most to our fans,

:lol: Like there will be a community.

As far as my knowledge on the matter goes, no one was actually able to prove that StarForce broke 100% fully functioning drives.... (read new)
Not saying it didn't happen, just saying that at some point you need proofs not just words :|
And it wasn't that widespread...

True, but for folks who use their comps professionally (especially the drives), the risk just may not be worth it.

Besides, didn't everything turn out OK? The industry turned mostly to SecuROM. Sure, explorer.exe might crash if you right-click a folder icon, but that's no biggie. ;)

On-topic:
Looks like MW2 is shaping up to a rather smallish MP player cap:
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1802552#post1802552
http://www.infinityward.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=129808
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=993562

16-18 players max? IW is getting darn close to the gold medal for the Multi-FAIL event.

16-18 players max? IW is getting darn close to the gold medal for the Multi-FAIL event.

FAIL
DOUBLE FAIL
MULTI FAIL
ULTRA FAIL
MO MO MONSTER FAIL!

[quote]16-18 players max? IW is getting darn close to the gold medal for the Multi-FAIL event.

FAIL
DOUBLE FAIL
MULTI FAIL
ULTRA FAIL
MO MO MONSTER FAIL!
HOLY FAIL!(insert echo effect)

[quote][quote]16-18 players max? IW is getting darn close to the gold medal for the Multi-FAIL event.

FAIL
DOUBLE FAIL
MULTI FAIL
ULTRA FAIL
MO MO MONSTER FAIL!
HOLY FAIL!(insert echo effect)


GOD FAIL (I can't actually remember if that came after HOLY SH- or not)

What was the player cap in MW1? I never play competitive multi so I have no idea, but I need the info for my continued Steam forum antagonizing.

What was the player cap in MW1? I never play competitive multi so I have no idea, but I need the info for my continued Steam forum antagonizing.

Well I see at least one machine @ 64 players and a bunch in the 24-40 range:
http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=boycott

According to Grant Collier, MW1 producer, there is no hard-limit built into servers for the game. Interestingly, he left IW for an Activision job after MW1 and did not work on MW2. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfTR8PBrsE

-edit-
Here's a little clarity. Robert Bowling, IW Creative Strategist and a central figure of the current MW2 fiasco, boasts a rather pathetic PC games collection next to the hundreds of console titles he owns:
http://www.fourzerotwo.com/?page_id=176
(The PC section is at the bottom of the list. Don't scroll too fast or you'll miss it completely.)

Perhaps this plays into the huge disconnect between him/IW and the PC CoD customer base over MW2? Hard to tell. Even if he completely understands the current PC gamer outrage, his job is to publicly promote/defend IW's 'line' at all costs.

GOD FAIL (I can't actually remember if that came after HOLY SH- or not)

I remember when I first played UT2003 round a friends, and the female announcer voice screamed "GODLIKE!" as if she was having an orgasm... :shock:

[quote]GOD FAIL (I can't actually remember if that came after HOLY SH- or not)

I remember when I first played UT2003 round a friends, and the female announcer voice screamed "GODLIKE!" as if she was having an orgasm... :shock:

Yea that pretty much sums it up... half of what she says sounds like she is having an orgasm (people on tf2 put those on their servers, I turned off download sounds so I don't have to listen) She must have some weird fetish...

Here's a little clarity. Robert Bowling, IW Creative Strategist and a central figure of the current MW2 fiasco, boasts a rather pathetic PC games collection next to the hundreds of console titles he owns:
http://www.fourzerotwo.com/?page_id=176
(The PC section is at the bottom of the list. Don't scroll too fast or you'll miss it completely.)

Wow, that boy loooooves his 360.

Yea that pretty much sums it up... half of what she says sounds like she is having an orgasm (people on tf2 put those on their servers, I turned off download sounds so I don't have to listen) She must have some weird fetish...

I don't think the devs at Epic get out enough... ;)

And that's a hell of a game list. Yikes.

-edit-
Here's a little clarity. Robert Bowling, IW Creative Strategist and a central figure of the current MW2 fiasco, boasts a rather pathetic PC games collection next to the hundreds of console titles he owns:
http://www.fourzerotwo.com/?page_id=176
(The PC section is at the bottom of the list. Don't scroll too fast or you'll miss it completely.)

Perhaps this plays into the huge disconnect between him/IW and the PC CoD customer base over MW2? Hard to tell. Even if he completely understands the current PC gamer outrage, his job is to publicly promote/defend IW's 'line' at all costs.

That is Murtaugh thin there.