Modern Warfare 2 PC update: Steam version unlocks at midnight and more [Update]

Posted Nov 11th 2009 9:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: FPS, Multiplayer, Modern Warfare 2

Infinity Ward's release of Modern Warfare 2 has apparently been a big success in terms of professional reviews and sales.However, the PC version of the first person shooter is still generating talk among the Internets. First, people who pre-ordered and pre-loaded the game via Steam should be able to play the full game at midnight Eastern time tonight.

In other news, the folks who are upset about a lack of dedicated servers are taking it out in user reviews on sites like IGN, Amazon.com and Metacritic. The user review scores are extremely low compared to the professional critics reviews of the game. It's basically a repeat of what happened last year when user reviews for Spore went down because of the controversy over the game's DRM set-up.

Finally, MTV Multplayer reports that hackers have apparently been able to break into the developer's IWNet matchmaking service for the PC and set up cheats like aim bots and seeing through walls during matches. We will have to see if Infinity Ward's claims of better multiplayer matches hold up now that the game is out in the wild.

Update: Good news: The Modern Warfare 2 Steam pre-orders can now unlock and play the game now.

Gallery: Modern Warfare 2

Tags: activision, activision-blizzard, infinity-ward, modern-warfare-2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tonight? My buddies were playing the Steam version last night. Once again you guys are right on top of things.Posted at 9:50PM on Nov 11th 2009 by Lolwut

They have the retail version which as playable 11.10.09Posted at 1:42AM on Nov 12th 2009 by Nikolaj Møller

of course they're on top of things, didn't you hear this is exactly like the spore incident. for those that don't know the spore incident is when a first person shooter that had an opportunity to be pure gold was turned into utter crap by some xbawks crazy devs that thought it would be fun to ruin everything that the pc FPS community loves. So yes this is exactly like the spore incident.Posted at 5:34PM on Nov 16th 2009 by Sklor

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