Predictably, nerds across world took to the Internet with a wailing and a gnashing of teeth that would make the Left 4 Dead community proud. An online petition to bring back dedicated servers at the time of this writing stands at 100,000+ signatures. However -- and this may shock some gamers with advanced persecution complexes -- this move was not made to tweak the noses of the PC community. Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella explain the decision as a conscious effort to improve their game for the vast majority of their players.
" I'm just worried about the growing trend of trying to make PC games more "console-friendly" as if that's going to make things better. The advantage the PC has always had was a greater depth of options customization. Removing that stuff is betraying the platform its natural benefits. The entire reason people buy the PC version of something like Modern Warfare 2 is so they have stuff like server browsers and mods, because that's what the platform is good for. "
Yeah, and even when devs claim their game is different on the PC and consoles (as if to make it look like they care about PC gamers), like Borderlands, which seems to have not much difference between the console and PC version other than the fact that you can export images in-game and a different UI that suits PC gamers more, and that's it. I think that developers now are just pretending to care, and what they claim are exclusive features to PCs when it comes to games are not very Earth-shattering.
@Jeffsekai: Haha, what bullcrap. The first COD game was only on the PC, and was the main platform for the COD games until Treyarch came along. The COD games didn't steal the hearts of console games until COD 4 came out.
Definitely not. I've always gotten my COD games on the PC, but this time... eh, maybe console. I don't like being told what and what not to do on what is the most open platform out there.
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