Lack of dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2 PC causes massive petition signing

Posted Oct 19th 2009 7:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

Online petitions are kind of like 50 cents nowadays. Having both will get you a call on a pay phone and not much else. However the revelation that developer Infinity Ward won't release a dedicated online multiplayer server for their FPS Modern Warfare 2 has generated a ton of angry online petition signers.

The Petitiononline.com web site has nearly 80,000 signers (at the moment) who feel that this move from allowing dedicated servers to having Infinity Ward run their own matchmaking service for the PC port is a step in the wrong direction for the Modern Warfare 2 online community. In truth, no matter how you feel about this decision, the fact that Infinity Ward kept this major change to itself until just three weeks before the game comes out smells to us like they knew it wouldn't be a popular move. We've tried to contact Infinity Ward's community manager Robert Bowling for comment but so far we have yet to receive a response.

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Tags: activision, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-2, infinity-ward, modern-warfare-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

I will not buy Modern Warfare 2.Posted at 12:57AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Einhanderkiller

I won't be buying this either. Left 4 Dead 2 and Bad Company 2 are looking awesome. Bad Company devs were as shocked as everyone else about lack of dedicated servers. There response was something like "Dedicated servers FTW".Posted at 8:34AM on Oct 20th 2009 by Steve

i don't know why people like modern warfare, i hate the seesaw movement of your gun as you run, i hate the scale of the levels, the aiming system, all the same colour green and brown levels, the lame flamboyantly gay voice acting from that pommie guy, the really annoying fanbase, its so much like the halo fanbase

this and halo pretty much represent the majority of generic teenage gamers with no real taste or wit

this series disgusts me almost as much as xbox fanboys and 15 yr olds.

wow i didn't know how much i really hated this until i started writing.
Posted at 7:29PM on Oct 20th 2009 by AD

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