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Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare 2 is a vivid example of how pc gamers are being disrespected out of exclusive pc features. When Infinity Ward announced that they would not include dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2 geeks all across the net were united and loud in denouncing the decision. A group was formed to boycott the game, while many held true most didn’t and went ahead and bought the game.

Sales were extremely good for the pc version of MW2 and that success might tend to tell Activision that PC gamers will buy what they are given, no matter what. I hope that isn’t the case, but at the end of the day they are a company trying to make a profit for their share holders. My guess is that PC gamers merely accepted what they were given because it was that or nothing.

It’s hard to get together on anything with any group of people and the pc gaming community is no different. However there are things we can do and things we should do to get the types of games we feel we deserve.

One other constant in the complaint department is the lack of customized features solely for PC versions of games. Modern Warfare 2 was essentially the exact same game on the PC as it was on the consoles. The PC version looked the best but other than that it was the same game. One thing that was particularly troublesome was that the PC version had the same player limit in online matches as the consoles. I fully understand why you would need to do that for the Xbox 360 but I do not get why the pc version had to carry the same limitation.

It’s time for pc gamers to demand better, to effectively “vote” for the kinds of features we want with our dollars. Buy games that are PC specific or at least provide features that consoles don’t have because the PC isn’t as limited as the Xbox 360 or PS3 hardware wise.

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