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My experiences with the Modern Warfare 2 Steam Free weekend.

I, like many of you am a long time Call of Duty player I remember the day the Call of Duty  SP demo was released, refreshing the browser waiting for the demo to pop up. Call of Duty, was a fantastic game and I was glad that the console community got to experience it with the release of Modern Warfare 2(Vouchers, and later on XBL/PSN).  After Call of Duty, I continued to support the franchise on the PC and later console releases (CoD3, CoD4/ WaW on PS3 and 360, gotta play with your console friends.)  but the core of my effort was always with the PC version.  
 
Over the 7 years of Call of Duty I got half way decent at it, I do not claim to be the best in the world because I know I am far from it but on both the console and PC versions of the game it would be rare to see me anywhere below 3rd on my team. During my longest stint with a clan, I earned the nick name ManiHac a running joke that I was "cheating".  I have never cheated in my life, to me it defeats the purpose of playing a game, learning and getting better is what drives me to play games and FPS in general. When I joined the Modern Warfare 2 Free weekend, it took me 1 hour and 30 minutes to be accused of cheating (A new record for a new game for me.). 
 
What bothers me isn't that I was accused of cheating, I know I don't and the people who I play with regularly know I don't so thats no big deal. But the mindset that has seized the community in Call of Duty does kinda bother me. In early Call of Duty games on the PC an accusation wouldn't be a common occurrence, once a month or 2 sounds about right a major pain in the butt when you are part of a clan that has a mandatory investigation and forces screenshots randomly. The volume of accusations and the....tasteful language used to describe me was shocking to say the least, every play session came with more accusations and more un enjoyable games of whining because you might just be better.
  
Are their so many cheaters present in Modern Warfare 2 on the PC that this kind of irrational witch hunting is warranted? What is Valve (VAC) and Infinity Ward doing about this? Peer 2 Peer in my experience in other games and the MW2 free weekend is still poor, why does it seem less smooth then the PS3 or 360 version? Who thought dual wielding was cool or a good idea?  Why no lean? I don't know how many times I knifed when I was trying to lean right, I don't buy the balance excuse.
 
 I boycotted Modern Warfare 2 on the PC as I pledged to do on the petition for dedicated servers, no dedi's no 60 dollars from me.  I understand a lot of people bought Modern Warfare 2 because they enjoyed Call of Duty and either didn't know or didn't care about the Peer 2 peer online system. But you look me in my pixelated blog and tell me they didn't drastically neuter what Call of Duty was on the PC. It hasn't kept people from pirating, cheating or any of the things it set out to do but be a conduit for you to spend 15 dollars on 5 maps. So I just really want to know, think it was worth it? 

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